Author:Joseph Rudyard Kipling/Poetry

Poetry

A

• The Absent-Minded Beggar
• The Advertisement
• After, later incorporated into "The American Rebellion"
• Akbar's Bridge
• Alnaschar and the Oxen
• An American
• The American Rebellion
• Anchor Song
• "Angutivaun Taina"
• The Answer
• The Anvil
• The Appeal
• Appropriate verses on an Elegant Landscape
• Argument of a Projected Poem to be Called "The Seven Nights of Creation"
• Arithmetic on the Frontier
• Army Headquarters
• Arterial
• "As the Bell Clinks"
• An Astrologer's Song
• At His Execution
• At the Distance
• Ave Imperatrix!
• Azrael's Count

B

• "Back to the Army Again"
• The Ballad of Boh Da Thone
• The Ballad of East and West
• The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-house
• The Ballad of Minepit Shaw
• The Ballad of the "Bolivar"
• The Ballad of the Cars
• The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"
• The Ballad of the King's Daughter
• The Ballad of the King's Jest
• The Ballad of the King's Mercy
• The Ballad of the Red Earl
• A Ballad of Burial
• A Ballade of Jakko Hill
• A Banjo Song see The Lost Legion
• Banquet Night
• The Bee-Boy's Song
• The Bees and the Flies
• Before, later incorporated into "The American Rebellion"
• "Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm"
• The Beginner
• The Beginnings
• The Bell-Buoy
• The Bells and Queen Victoria
• Belts
• The Benefactors
• The Betrothed
• Big Steamers
• Bill 'Awkins
• "Birds of Prey" March
• The Birthright
• Blue Goodness of the Weald (c.1902)
• Blue Roses
• The Boar of the Year
• "Bobs"
• The Bonfires
• Boots
• The Bother
• A Boy Scouts' Patrol Song
• The Braggart
• Bridge-Guard in the Karroo
• A British-Roman Song
• The Broken Men
• Brookland Road
• "Brown Bess"
• Buddha at Kamakura
• The Burden
• The Burial see Cecil Rhodes
• Butterflies
• "By the Hoof of the Wild Goat"

C

• Cain and Abel
• The Captive
• Carmen Circulare
• Caret
• A Carol
• Cecil Rhodes
• Cells
• The Centaurs
• Certain Maxims of Hafiz
• The Changelings
• Chant-Pagan
• Chapter Headings
  • Beast and Man in India
  • The Day's Work
  • Fringes of the Fleet
  • Jungle Books
  • Kim
  • Life's Handicap
  • The Light That Failed
  • Many Inventions
  • Naulahka
  • Plain Tales from the Hills
• A Charm
• Chartres Windows
• Chil's Song
• A Child's Garden
• The Children
• The Children's Song
• The Choice
• Cholera Camp
• Christmas in India
• "Cities and Thrones and Powers"
• "The City of Brass"
• The City of Sleep
• "Cleared"
• The Coastwise Lights
• A Code of Morals
• The Coiner
• Cold Iron
• Columns
• The Comforters
• The Consolations of Memory
• Contradictions
• The Conundrum of the Workshops
• A Counting-Out Song
• The Covenant
• The Craftsman
• Cruisers
• The Cuckoo Song
• The Curé

D

• Dane-geld
• Danny Deever
• Darzee's Chaunt
• The Dawn Wind
• The Dead King
• A Death-Bed
• The Declaration of London
• Dedication, from The Five Nations
• Dedication from "Barrack-Room Ballads"
• Dedication to "Soldiers Three"
• The Deep-Sea Cables
• Delilah
• A Departure
• The Derelict
• The Destroyers
• Dinah in Heaven
• Dirge of Dead Sisters
• The Disciple
• Divided Allegiance
• Divided Destinies
• Doctors
• The Dove of Dacca
• The Dusky Crew
• The Dutch in the Medway
• The Dying Chauffeur
• The Dykes

E

• The 'Eathen
• An echo
• Eddi's Service
• Edgehill Fight
• The Egg-Shell
• En-Dor
• England's Answer
• The English Flag
• The English Way
• Epitaphs of the War
• "Et dona ferentes"
• Evarra and His Gods
• The Exiles' Line
• The Expert
• The Explanation
• The Explorer

F

• The Fabulists
• The Fairies' Siege
• The Fall of Jock Gillespie
• Fastness
• The Feet of the Young Men
• The Female of the Species
• The Files
• The Fires
• The First Chantey
• The Flight
• The Floods
• The Flowers
• "Follow Me 'Ome"
• A Fool Lies Here
• "For all we have and are"
• For to Admire
• Ford o' Kabul River
• The Four Angels
• Four-Feet
• The Four Points
• Fox-Hunting
• France
• Frankie's Trade
• The French Wars
• The Friends
• From the Hills

• From the Masjid-al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi)

  see The Captive
• The Front Door
• "Fuzzy-Wuzzy"

G

• The Galley-Slave
• Gallio's Song
• Gehazi
• General Joubert
• General Summary
• Gentlemen-Rankers
• Gertrude's Prayer
• Gethsemane
• Giffen's Debt
• The Gift of the Sea
• The Gipsy Trail
• Gipsy Vans
• The Glories
• The Glory of the Garden
• The Gods of the Copybook Headings
• Gow's Watch, excerpts
• The Grave of the Hundred Head
• Great-Heart

• The Greek National Anthem

  see Hymn to Liberty
• Gunga Din

H

• Hadramauti
• Half-Ballad of Waterval
• Harp Song of the Dane Women
• "Helen All Alone"
• Heriot's Ford
• The Heritage
• "His Apologies"
• The Holy War
• The Hour of the Angel
• The Houses
• Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
• The Hyaenas
• Hymn before Action
• Hymn of Breaking Strain
• Hymn of the Triumphant Airman
• Hymn to Physical Pain
• Hymn to Liberty, English translation of Greek national anthem

I

• The Idiot Boy
• If—
• An Imperial Rescript
• In Springtime
• In the Matter of One Compass
• In the Neolithic Age
• The Instructor
• The Inventor
• The Irish Guards
• The Islanders
• “I’ve never sailed the Amazon…”

J

• The Jacket
• James I
• Jane's Marriage
• The Jester
• Jobson's Amen
• Jubal and Tubal Cain
• The Juggler's Song
• The Junk and the Dhow
• Justice
• The Justice's Tale

K

• Kaspar's Song in Varda

  see Butterflies
• The King
• King Henry VII and the Shipwrights
• The King and the Sea
• The King's Job
• The King's Pilgrimage
• The King's Task
• The Kingdom
• Kitchener's School

L

• La Nuit Blanche
• The Ladies
• Lady Geraldine's Hardship
• The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief
• The Land
• The Landau
• The Last Chantey
• The Last Department
• The Last Lap
• The Last Ode
• The Last of the Light Brigade
• The Last Rhyme of True Thomas
• The Last Suttee
• "Late Came the God"
• The Law of the Jungle
• The Legend of Evil
• The Legend of Mirth
• A Legend of the Foreign Office
• A Legend of Truth
• L'Envoi ("And they were stronger hands than mine")
• L'Envoi ("My new-cut ashlar takes the light")
• L'Envoi ("The smoke upon your Altar dies")
• L'Envoi ("There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield")
• L'Envoi ("When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried")
• The Lesson (1881)
• The Lesson (1901)
• Lichtenberg
• The Liner She's a Lady
• Lollius
• London Stone
• The Long Trail
• The Looking-Glass
• Lo! as a little child
• Loot
• Lord Roberts
• The Lost Legion
• The Love Song of Har Dyal
• The Lovers' Litany
• The Lowestoft Boat
• "Lukannon"

M

• M'Andrew's Hymn
• MacDonough's Song
• The Man Who Could Write
• Mandalay
• The Mare's Nest
• The Marrèd Drives of Windsor
• The Married Man
• The Mary Gloster
• "Mary, Pity Women!"
• Mary's Son
• The Masque of Plenty
• The Master-Cook
• Memories
• "The Men That Fought at Minden"
• The Merchantmen
• Merrow Down
• Mesopotamia
• M. I.
• Mine Sweepers
• The Miracles
• The Moon of Other Days
• The Moral
• Morning Song in the Jungle
• Mother o' Mine
• The Mother-Lodge
• The Mother's Son
• Mowgli's Song Against People
• Mulholland's Contract
• Municipal
• My Boy Jack
• My Father's Chair
• My Lady's Law
• "My New-Cut Ashlar"
• My Rival

N

• Naaman's Song
• The Native-Born
• A Nativity
• Natural Theology
• The Necessitarian
• Neighbours
• The New Knighthood
• Norman and Saxon
• The North Sea Patrol
• The Nurses
• The Nursing Sister

O

• Ode, Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance
• The Old Issue
• The Old Men
• Old Mother Laidinwool
• An Old Song
• The Oldest Song
• One Viceroy Resigns
• The Only Son
• Oonts
• "Our Fathers Also"
• "Our Fathers of Old"
• Our Lady of the Snows
• The Outlaws
• Outsong in the Jungle
• The Overland Mail

P

• A Pageant of Elizabeth
• Pagett, M. P.
• The Palace
• Pan in Vermont
• Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals
• The Parting of the Columns
• The Peace of Dives
• The Penalty
• Pharaoh and the Sergeant
• Philadelphia
• A Pict Song
• Piet
• A Pilgrim's Way
• Pink Dominoes
• The Pirates in England
• Playing Robinson Crusoe
• The Playmate
• The Plea of the Simla Dancers
• "Poison of Asps"
• "Poor Honest Men"
• The Portent
• Poseidon's Law
• Possibilities
• The Post That Fitted
• "The Power of the Dog"
• The Prairie
• The Prayer
• The Prayer of Miriam Cohen
• Preface to Land and Sea Tales
• Prelude to Departmental Ditties
• The Press

• Primum Tempus

  see In the Neolithic Age
• Private Ortheris's Song
• The Pro-Consuls
• The Prodigal Son
• The Progress of the Spark
• Prophets at Home
• Public Waste
• Puck's Song
• The Puzzler

Q

• The Queen's Men
• The Quest
• The Question

R

• The Rabbi's Song
• Rahere
• Reading the Will
• Rebirth
• The Recall
• A Recantation
• Recessional
• A Rector's Memory
• The Reeds of Runnymede
• The Reformers
• The Return
• The Return of the Children
• Rhodes Memorial, Table Mountain
• The Rhyme of the Three Captains
• The Rhyme of the Three Sealers
• Rimini
• Rimmon
• A Ripple Song
• The River's Tale
• Road-Song of the Bandar-Log
• The Roman Centurion's Song
• Romance see The King
• Romulus and Remus
• Route Marchin'
• The Rowers
• The Run of the Downs
• The Runes on Weland's Sword
• The Runners
• The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin
• Russia to the Pacifists

S

• The Sack of the Gods
• The Sacrifice of Er-Heb
• A St. Helena Lullaby
• St. Patrick's Day, 1900
• Samuel Pepys
• Sappers
• The Saxon Foundations of England (later combined into The King's Task)
• The Scholars
• A School Song
• Screw-Guns
• The Sea and the Hills
• The Sea-Wife
• The Second Voyage
• The Second Wooing
• The Secret of the Machines
• Sepulchral
• The Sergeant's Weddin'
• "A Servant When He Reigneth"
• "The Service Man"
• Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
• The Settler
• Seven Watchmen
• Shillin' a Day
• Shiv and the Grasshopper
• The Shut-Eye Sentry
• Sir Richard's Song
• A Smuggler's Song
• "Snarleyow"
• "Soldier an' Sailor Too"
• Soldier, Soldier
• A Song at Cock-Crow
• A Song in Storm
• A Song in the Desert
• A Song of Bananas
• The Song of Diego Valdez
• A Song of French Roads
• A Song of Kabir
• The Song of Seven Cities
• Song of Seventy Horses
• The Song of the Banjo
• The Song of the Cities
• The Song of the Dead
• Song of the Dynamo
• A Song of the English
• Song of the Fifth River
• Song of the Galley-Slaves
• The Song of the Lathes
• The Song of the Little Hunter
• Song of the Men's Side
• The Song of the Old Guard
• Song of the Red War-Boat
• The Song of the Sons
• The Song of the Sufferer
• A Song of the White Men
• Song of the Wise Children
• The Song of the Women
• A Song of Travel
• A Song to Mithras
• The Sons of Martha
• The Sons of the Widow (same as "The Widow at Windsor")
• South Africa
• The Spies' March
• Stellenbosh
• The Storm Cone
• The Story of Ung
• The Story of Uriah
• The Stranger
• Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink
• "Such as in Ships"
• Supplication of the Black Aberdeen
• The Supports
• The Survival
• Sussex

T

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Tarrant Moss
• That Day
• Things and the Man
• Thorkild's Song
• The Thousandth Man
• The Three-Decker
• A Three-Part Song
• The Threshold
• "Tin Fish"
• To a Lady, Persuading Her to a Car
• To James Whitcomb Riley
• To Motorists
• To the City of Bombay
• To the Companions
• To the True Romance
• To the Unknown Goddess
• To Thomas Atkins
• ‘Together’
• Tomlinson
• Tommy
• The Totem
• The Tour
• "The Trade"
• A Tragedy of Teeth
• A Translation
• A Tree Song
• Troopin'
• The Truce of the Bear
• A Truthful Song

• The Two Cousins

  see The Queen's Men
• Two Kopjes
• Two Months. In June
• Two Months. In September
• Two Races
• The Two-Sided Man
• Two Sides of the Medal

U

• Ubique
• Ulster
• The Undertaker's Horse
• Untimely

V

• The Vampire
• The Verdicts
• Verses on Games
• "Very Many People"
• The Veterans
• The Vineyard
• The Virginity
• The Voortrekker

W

• The Wage-Slaves
• The Waster
• The Way Through the Woods
• We and They
• The Wet Litany
• What Happened
• What the People Said
• When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted (same as "L'envoi" from The Seven Seas)
• "When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre"
• "When the Great Ark"
• "When the Journey was Intended to the City"
• White Horses
• The White Man's Burden
• The Widow at Windsor (same as "The Sons of the Widow")
• The Widow's Party
• The Widower
• Wilful-Missing
• The Winners
• The Wishing Caps
• With Drake in the Tropics
• With Scindia to Delhi

Y

• The Young British Soldier
• The Young Queen

Z

• Zion