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Dane-geld" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It relates to the unwisdom of paying " Danegeld ", or what is nowadays called blackmail and protection money . The most famous lines are "once you have paid him the Danegeld/ You never get rid of the Dane."
He was, however, encouraged to write poetry by Robert Riccaltoun (1691–1769), a farmer, poet and Presbyterian minister; and Sir William Bennet (d. 1729), a whig laird who was a patron of Allan Ramsay. [4] While some early poems by Thomson survive, he burned most of them on New Year's Day each year. [6]
"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 ...
Rudyard Kipling's If— (1895), often voted Britain's favourite poem [24] [25] The Georgian poets were the first major grouping of the post-Victorian era. Their work appeared in a series of five anthologies called Georgian Poetry which were published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh.
It is probably Housman's best-known poem, [1] [2] and one of the most anthologized of English lyrics. [3] Its opening line has become a part of the language, "inextricably lodged in the public mind and vocabulary". [4] In a 1995 poll it was chosen as one of the British people's 100 favourite poems. It has been set to music over 60 times.
The Duchess of Sussex shared her favorite summer poem in the September issue of British Vogue.
1913 Macmillan 'Dominions' edition. Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies" by Richard Corbet, [1] which was referred to by the children in the first story of Kipling's earlier book Puck of Pook's Hill.
The Land (poem) Last Post (poem) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun; Leisure (poem) The Lie (poem) Limbo (Coleridge poem) Lines (poem) Lines on an Autumnal Evening; Lines Written at Shurton Bars; Little Gidding (poem) Little Red Cap (poem) Locksley Hall; Love Among the Ruins (poem) Lullay, mine liking