When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...
Rudyard Kipling Poems on Money & Wealth (20 Poems)
The Song of the Cities (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
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' ...
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 ...
The Old Issue (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets, "Many feet have worn it and the road is old ...
Mulholland’s Contract (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the ...
The Mary Gloster (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
The Lesson (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson: it will ...
The Last of the Light Brigade (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
The Last Rhyme of True Thomas (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
In the Neolithic Age (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I 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 ...
Gehazi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1915 Whence comest thou, Gehazi, So reverend to behold, In scarlet and in ermines And chain of England's gold?" "From ...
Delilah (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We have another viceroy now, -- those days are dead and done Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne. Delilah ...
Dane-Geld (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
A.D. 980-1016 It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to ...
Cleared (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
Certain Maxims Of Hafiz (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I. If It be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai, Does not the Young Man try Its ...
The Benefactors (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
The Ballad of the “Bolivar” (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
The Prodigal Son (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Here come I to my own again, Fed, forgiven and known again, Claimed by bone of my bone again And ...