With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
Rudyard Kipling Poems on Fire (28 Poems)
The Young British Soldier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
A Translation (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Horace, BK. V., Ode 3 "Regulus"-- A Diversity of Creatures There are whose study is of smells, And to attentive ...
Tomlinson (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
A Tale of Two Cities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles On his byles; Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow Come and go; Where ...
A Song of Travel (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Where's the lamp that Hero lit Once to call Leander home? Equal Time hath shovelled it 'Neath the wrack of ...
A Song at Cock-Crow (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The first time that Peter denied his Lord He shrank from the cudgel, the scourge and the cord, But followed ...
The Sea-Wife (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' ...
Russia To The Pacifists (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne this ...
Recessional (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
Possibilities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at ...
The Peace Of Dives (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
Oonts (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' ...
Our Fathers Also (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"Below the Mill Dam" --Traffics and Discoveries Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also ...
The Only Son (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew For she heard a whimper under the ...
La Nuit Blanche (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
My New-Cut Ashler (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
My New-Cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare. By my own work before the night, Great Overseer, ...
The Mare’s Nest (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse Was good beyond all earthly need; But, on the other hand, her spouse Was ...
The Gods of the Copybook Headings (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1919 As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, Make my proper prostrations to the Gods of ...
The Fires (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Men make them fires on the hearth Each under his roof-tree, And the Four Winds that rule the earth They ...
A Death-Bed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1918 This is the State above the Law. The State exists for the State alone." [This is a gland at ...
Cruisers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Cleared (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
A British-Roman Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(A. D. 406) "A Centurion of the Thirtieth" -- Puck of Pook's Hill My father's father saw it not, And ...
The Betrothed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
The Ballad of East and West (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
Recessional (A Victorian Ode) (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
Gunga Din (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot ...