Rudyard Kipling's Poetry, by first line

• A Ballad of Burial

  If down here I chance to die,
  Solemnly I beg you take

  48 lines, 3 comments
• A Song Of The English

  Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage!
  (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!)

  32 lines, 1 comment
• An Astrologer's Song

  To the Heavens above us
  O look and behold

  64 lines
• An Imperial Rescript

  Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed,
  To ease the strong of their burden, to help the weak in their need,

  40 lines
• Army Headquarters

  Old is the song that I sing --
  Old as my unpaid bills --

  32 lines
• Banquet Night

  Once in so often," King Solomon said,
  Watching his quarrymen drill the stone,

  39 lines
• Barrack-Room Ballads

  When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
  He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;

  15 lines
• Belts

  There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,
  Between an Irish regiment an' English cavalree;

  50 lines
• Bill 'Awkins

  "'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?"
  "Now 'ow in the devil would I know?"

  28 lines
• Birds of Prey March

  March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies.
  Front! -- eyes front, an' watch the Colour-casin's drip.

  40 lines, 1 comment
• Buddha at Kamakura

  One who treated the Narrow Way
  By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,

  48 lines
• Cells

  I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick:
  I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick,

  38 lines, 2 comments
• Cholera Camp

  We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights;
  We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as Isrulites;

  61 lines
• England's Answer

  Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban;
  Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man.

  31 lines
• Evarra And His Gods

  Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea.~
  Because the city gave him of her gold,

  73 lines
• For To Admire

  The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles
  So sof', so bright, so bloomin' blue;

  64 lines
• Ford O' Kabul River

  Kabul town's by Kabul river --
  Blow the bugle, draw the sword --

  54 lines, 2 comments
• Gunga Din

  You may talk o' gin and beer
  When you're quartered safe out 'ere,

  90 lines, 13 comments
• Hymn Before Action

  The earth is full of anger,
  The seas are dark with wrath,

  54 lines
• In The Neolithic Age

  In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage
  For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt;

  52 lines
• L'envoi

  There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,
  And the ricks stand gray to the sun,

  84 lines
• Mary, Pity Women!

  You call yourself a man,
  For all you used to swear,

  48 lines
• Mulholland's Contract

  The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,
  An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free --

  56 lines
• Oonts

  Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire?
  It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire;

  42 lines, 1 comment
• Route Marchin'

  We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,
  A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains;

  58 lines
• Sappers

  When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,
  ("It's all one," says the Sapper),

  81 lines
• Screw-Guns

  Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,
  I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,

  58 lines
• Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal

  Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all,
  The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world.

  46 lines
• Shillin' A Day

  My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly
  From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore,

  34 lines
• Soldier, Soldier

  "Soldier, soldier come from the wars,
  Why don't you march with my true love?"

  48 lines, 1 comment

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