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Rudyard Kipling's Poetry, by title

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  • "Back To The Army Again"
    I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,
    A-layin' on to the sergeant I don't know a gun from a bat;
    78 lines, 2 comments
  • "The City of Brass"
    “Here was a people whom after their works thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion:and in this palace is the last information re
    71 lines, 1 comment
  • 'Angutivaun Taina'
    Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood,
      Our furs with the drifted snow,
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • A Ballad of Burial
    If down here I chance to die,
    Solemnly I beg you take
    48 lines, 3 comments
  • A Bank Fraud
    He drank strong waters and his speech was coarse;
    He purchased raiment and forbore to pay';
    6 lines, 3 comments
  • A Boy Scouts' Patrol Song
    These are our regulations --
    There's just one law for the Scout
    49 lines
  • A British-Roman Song
    My father's father saw it not,
    And I, belike, shall never come
    20 lines
  • A Carol
    Our Lord Who did the Ox command
    To kneel to Judah's King,
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • A Charm
    Take of English earth as much
    As either hand may rightly clutch.
    34 lines
  • A Child's Garden
    Now there is nothing wrong with me
    Except -- I think it's called T.B.
    24 lines
  • A Code of Morals
    Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order,
    And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border,
    36 lines
  • A Counting-Out Song
    What is the song the children sing,
    When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring,
    79 lines
  • A Dead Statesman
    I could not dig; I dared not rob:
    Therefore I lied to please the mob.
    6 lines
  • A Death-Bed
    This is the State above the Law.
    The State exists for the State alone.\
    40 lines
  • A Dedication
    My new-cut ashlar takes the light
    Where crimson-blank the windows flare;
    33 lines
  • A Dedication to Soldiers Three
    And they were stronger hands than mine
    That digged the Ruby from the earth--
    24 lines
  • A Departure
    Since first the White Horse Banner blew free,
    By Hengist's horde unfurled,
    32 lines
  • A General Summary
    We are very slightly changed
    From the semi-apes who ranged
    35 lines
  • A Legend of Truth
    Once on a time, the ancient legends tell,
    Truth, rising from the bottom of her well,
    43 lines
  • A Lover's Journey
    When a lover hies abroad
    Looking for his love,
    8 lines
  • A Nativity
    The Babe was laid in the Manger
    Between the gentle kine --
    46 lines
  • A Pageant of Elizabeth
    Like Princes crowned they bore them--
    Like Demi-Gods they wrought,
    16 lines
  • A Pict Song
    Rome never looks where she treads.
    Always her heavy hooves fall
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • A Pilgrim's Way
    I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way,
    Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray.
    46 lines
  • A Preface
    To all to whom this little book may come—
      Health for yourselves and those you hold most dear!
    44 lines
  • A Recantation
    What boots it on the Gods to call?
    Since, answered or unheard,
    44 lines
  • A Rector's Memory
    The, Gods that are wiser than Learning
    But kinder than Life have made sure
    33 lines
  • A Ripple Song
    Once red ripple came to land
    In the golden sunset burning--
    25 lines
  • A School Song
    Let us now praise famous men"--
    Men of little showing--
    78 lines
  • A Servant When He Reigneth
    Three things make earth unquiet
    And four she cannot brook
    40 lines, 1 comment
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