Rudyard Kipling's Poetry, by popularity

• The Declaration of London

  On the reassembling of Parliament after the Coronation, the Government have no intention of allowing their followers to vote according to their convictions o

  31 lines
• The Feet of the Young Men

  Now the Four-way Lodge is opened, now the Hunting Winds are loose --
  Now the Smokes of Spring go up to clear the brain;

  86 lines
• The Justice's Tale

  With them there rode a lustie Engineere
  Wel skilled to handel everich waie her geere,

  16 lines
• Half-Ballad of Waterval

  When by the labor of my 'ands
  I've 'elped to pack a transport tight

  32 lines
• The Galley-Slave

  Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel
  To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel;

  48 lines
• Quiquern

  The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow--
  They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men go.

  11 lines
• The Junk and the Dhow

  Once a pair of savages found a stranded tree.
  (One-piecee stick -pidgin -- two piecee man.

  51 lines
• The Fall of Jock Gillespie

  This fell when dinner-time was done --
  'Twixt the first an' the second rub --

  48 lines
• The Fires

  Men make them fires on the hearth
  Each under his roof-tree,

  40 lines
• The Pro-Consuls

  The overfaithful sword returns the user
  His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood.

  56 lines
• Pagett, M.P.

  The toad beneath the harrow knows
  Exactly where eath tooth-point goes.

  36 lines
• Kitchener's School

  Oh Hubshee, carry your shoes in your hand and bow your head on your breast!
  This is the message of Kitchener who did not break you in jest.

  40 lines
• The King's Task

  After the sack of the City when Rome was sunk to a name,
  In the years that the lights were darkened, or ever St. Wilfrid

  98 lines
• The Spring Running

  Man goes to Man! Cry the challenge through the Jungle!
  He that was our Brother goes away.

  8 lines
• The French Wars

  The boats of Newhaven and Folkestone and Dover
  To Dieppe and Boulogne and to Calais cross over;

  28 lines
• The Four Angels

  As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree
  The Angel of the Earth came down, and offered Earth in fee;

  35 lines
• The Light That Failed

  So we settled it all when the storm was done
  As comfy as comfy could be;

  69 lines
• The King and the Sea

  After His Realms and States were moved
  To bare their hearts to the King they loved,

  58 lines
• The King's Pilgrimage

      Our King went forth on pilgrimage
      His prayers and vows to pay

  67 lines, 1 comment
• The Song of the Little Hunter

  Ere Mor the Peacock flutters, ere the Monkey People cry,
  Ere Chil the Kite swoops down a furlong sheer,

  25 lines
• The Rabbi's Song

  If Thought can reach to Heaven,
  On Heaven let it dwell,

  32 lines
• The King's Ankus

  These are the Four that are never content, that have never be
  filled since the Dews began--

  4 lines
• The Inventor

  Time and Space decreed his lot,
  But little Man was quick to note:

  34 lines
• The Instructor

  At times when under cover I 'ave said,
  To keep my spirits up an' raise a laugh,

  21 lines
• The Greek National Anthem

  We knew thee of old,
  Oh divinely restored,

  28 lines
• The Dead King

  Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear?
  And, unconcerned for his own estate, toils till the last grudged sands have run?

  50 lines
• The Fabulists

  So it hath fallen, as it was bound to fall,
  We are not, nor we were not, heard at all.

  30 lines
• Possibilities

  Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine --
  A fortnight fully to be missed,

  39 lines
• The Plea of the Simla Dancers

  Too late, alas! the song
  To remedy the wrong; --

  56 lines
• One Viceroy Resigns

  So here's your Empire. No more wine, then?
  Good.

  192 lines

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