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  2. If— - Wikipedia

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    "If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son ...

  3. Boots (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...

  4. A Death-Bed - Wikipedia

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    "A Death-Bed" is a poem by English poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It was first published in April 1919, in the collection The Years Between. Later publications identified the year of writing as 1918. [1] [2] Kipling's only son, John, had been reported missing in action in 1915, during the Battle of Loos, leaving

  5. The Gods of the Copybook Headings - Wikipedia

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    "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, characterized by biographer Sir David Gilmour as one of several "ferocious post-war eruptions" of Kipling's souring sentiment concerning the state of Anglo-European society. [1] It was first published in the Sunday Pictorial of London on 26 October 1919.

  6. Cold Iron (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Cold Iron" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling published as the introduction to Rewards and Fairies in 1910. Not to be confused with Cold Iron (The Tale). In 1983, Leslie Fish set the poem to music and recorded it as the title track on her fifth cassette-tape

  7. The Last of the Light Brigade - Wikipedia

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    The Last of the Light Brigade" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade. Employing synecdoche , Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War , as exemplified by the cavalry ...

  8. The Ballad of East and West - Wikipedia

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    The poem is written with rhyming heptameters, two of which are equivalent to a ballad stanza. Some texts print the poem in groups of four lines. It is written in the style of a border ballad. The vocabulary, stock phrases and rhythms are reminiscent of the old ballads, and the culture described is not unlike that of the Border Reivers. The ...

  9. For All We Have And Are - Wikipedia

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    "For All We Have And Are" is a 1914 poem by Rudyard Kipling in response to German war crimes during the First World War. The poem was published in The Times of London and The New York Times on 2 September 1914, after the German invasion of Belgium the month before.