The Second Voyage (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We've sent our little Cupids all ashore -- They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold: Our sails of ...
Rudyard Kipling Poems (340 Poems)
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 ...
The Sacrifice of Er-Heb (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
Sappers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
A School Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"Let us now praise famous men"-- Men of little showing-- For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and ...
The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Now the New Year, reviving last Year's Debt, The Thoughtful Fisher casteth wide his Net; So I with begging Dish ...
A Ripple Song (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once red ripple came to land In the golden sunset burning-- Lapped against a maiden's hand, By the ford returning. ...
Road-Song of the Bandar-Log (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(From The Jungle Book) Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy ...
Romulus and Remus (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care-- When first he planned his home, What City should arise and bear The weight ...
Route Marchin’ (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains; Ho! get ...
The Rowers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
The Return of the Children (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"They" -- Traffics and Discoveries Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races-- Holding hands forlornly ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
The Rhyme of the Three Sealers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
Rimini (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Marching Song of a Roman Legion of the Later Empire Enlarged From "Puck of Pook's Hill" When I left Rome ...
Rimmon (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1903 After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for ...
The Recall (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I am the land of their fathers, In me the virtue stays. I will bring back my children, After certain ...
A Recantation (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
Recessional (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
The Reformers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
The Return (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Peace is declared, and I return To 'Ackneystadt, but not the same; Things 'ave transpired which made me learn The ...
Rebirth (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
If any God should say, "I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it"--who would ...
The Puzzler (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, ...
The Queen’s Men (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Valour and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame attended. Envy--ah! even to tears! -- The ...
The Quesion (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Brethren, how shall it fare with me When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am ...
The Rabbi’s Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
"The House Surgeon"--Actions and Reactions 2 Samuel XIV. 14. If Thought can reach to Heaven, On Heaven let it dwell, ...
The Press (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat"-- A Diversity of Creatures The Soldier may forget his Sword, The Sailorman ...
The Pro-Consuls (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The overfaithful sword returns the user His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood. The clamour of the arrogant ...
Prophets at Home (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Prophets have honour all over the Earth, Except in the village where they were born, Where such as knew them ...
Public Waste (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...