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by Rudyard Kipling


  Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these 12

  Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream 59

  Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned 182

  Me that ’ave been what I’ve been 113

  Much I owe to the Lands that grew 90

  My girl she give me the go onest 20

  My name, my speech, my self I had forgot 169

  My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I 168

  No doubt but ye are the People – your throne is above the King’s 95

  Nothing in life has been made by man for man’s using 187

  Now the New Year reviving old desires 42

  Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky 51

  On land and sea I strove with anxious care 171

  On the first hour of my first day 171

  Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid 163

  Once on a time, the ancient legends tell 185

  One used and butchered me: another spied 174

  Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout 13

  Or ever the battered liners sank 183

  Our England is a garden that is full of stately views 147

  Pity not! The Army gave 169

  Prometheus brought down fire to men 171

  Prophets have honour all over the earth 121

  Pussy can sit by the fire and sing 101

  Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. (Stand forward partners all!) 132

  Smells are surer than sounds or sights 116

  Soldier, soldier come from the wars 22

  Sudden the desert changes 91

  Take of English earth as much 129

  Take up the White Man’s burden 82

  That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend 191

  The beasts are very wise 38

  The blown sand heaps on me, that none may learn 170

  The boats of Newhaven and Folkstone and Dover 146

  The Camel’s hump is an ugly lump 99

  The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo 127

  The ’eathen in ’is blindness bows down to wood an’ stone 70

  The eldest son bestrides him 2

  The Garden called Gethsemane 163

  The General ’eard the firin’ on the flank 117

  The Gods that are wiser than Learning 189

  The Injian Ocean sets an’ smiles 49

  The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time 67

  The merry clerks of Oxenford they stretch themselves at ease 178

  The road to En-Dor is easy to tread 161

  The ships destroy us above 150

  The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part 123

  The stream is shrunk – the pool is dry 69

  There is sorrow enough in the natural way 126

  They bear, in place of classic names 151

  They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young 154

  They shut the road through the woods 133

  This is the midnight – let no star 196

  This man in his own country prayed we know not to what Powers 169

  Though all the Dead were all forgot 189

  Thus said the Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim 47

  Too late, alas! the song 6

  Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew 142

  Unless you come of the gipsy stock 184

  Walpole talks of ‘a man and his price’ 5

  We are very slightly changed 1

  We counterfeited once for your disport 175

  We, giving all, gained all 170

  We have served our day 175

  We know the Rocket’s upward whizz 197

  We were all one heart and one race 139

  We were together since the War began 168

  We’ve sent our little Cupids all ashore 105

  ‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade 17

  ‘What have we ever done to bear this grudge?’ 7

  What is a woman that you forsake her 119

  What is the moral? Who rides may read 16

  When all the world would keep a matter hid 158

  When Earth’s last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried 44

  When I left Rome for Lalage’s sake 120

  When ’Omer smote ’is bloomin’ lyre 76

  When the ’arf-made recruity goes out to the East 29

  When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold 31

  When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride 140

  When you come to London Town 181

  When you’ve shouted ‘Rule Britannia,’ when you’ve sung ‘God Save the Queen’ 88

  Where have you been this while away 40

  Where’s the lamp that Hero lit 125

  Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order 111

  Why gird at Lollius if he care 180

  Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro 35

  You may talk o’ gin and beer 25

  Your jar of Virginny 135

  Youth that trafficked long with Death 195

 

 

 


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