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A Death-Bed by Rudyard Kipling
1918
This is the State above the Law.
The State exists for the State alone."
[This is a gland at..
A GENERAL SUMMARY by Rudyard Kipling
We are very slightly changed
From the semi-apes who ranged
India’s Prehistoric clay;
He that drew..
An Imperial Rescript by Rudyard Kipling
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed,
To ease the strong of their burden,..
A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
1914-18
The Babe was laid in the Manger
Between the gentle kine --
All safe from cold and danger..
An Old Song by Rudyard Kipling
So long as ’neath the Kalka hills
The tonga-horn shall ring,
So long as down the Solon dip
The ha..
A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling
Rome never looks where she treads.
Always her heavy hooves fall
On our stomachs, our hearts or our..
A Recantation by Rudyard Kipling
1917
(To Lyde of the Music Halls)
What boots it on the Gods to call?
Since, answered or unh..
A Ripple Song by Rudyard Kipling
Once red ripple came to land
In the golden sunset burning--
Lapped against a maiden’s hand,
By th..
A School Song by Rudyard Kipling
"Let us now praise famous men"--
Men of little showing--
For their work continueth,
And their w..
A Smuggler's Song by Rudyard Kipling
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet,
Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in th..
A Song at Cock-Crow by Rudyard Kipling
The first time that Peter denied his Lord
He shrank from the cudgel, the scourge and the cord,
But..
A Song In Storm by Rudyard Kipling
Be well assured that on our side
The abiding oceans fight,
Though headlong wind and heaping tide
..
A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling
Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage!
(Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!)
..
A Song of Kabir by Rudyard Kipling
Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands!
Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his lands..
A Song of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
Where’s the lamp that Hero lit
Once to call Leander home?
Equal Time hath shovelled it
’Neath the..
A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling
1899
Now, this is the cup the White Men drink
When they go to right a wrong,
And that is the cu..
A St. Helena Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
"A Priest in Spite of Himself"
"How far is St. Helena from a little child at play!"
What makes you..
A Tale of Two Cities by Rudyard Kipling
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles
On his byles;
Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the cr..
A Three-Part Song by Rudyard Kipling
I’m just in love with all these three,
The Weald and the Marsh and the Down country.
Nor I don’t k..
A Translation by Rudyard Kipling
Horace, BK. V., Ode 3 "Regulus"-- A Diversity of Creatures
There are whose study is of smells,
And..
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