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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 ...
Moulmein from the Great Pagoda, Samuel Bourne, 1870 "Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, [a] and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892.
"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.
Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din". [1]
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 ...
My Boy Jack" is a 1916 poem by Rudyard Kipling. [1] Kipling wrote it for Jack Cornwell, the 16-year-old youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, who stayed by his post on board the light cruiser HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland until he died. Kipling's son John was never referred to as "Jack" [citation needed]. The poem echoes the grief of ...
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."
"In the Neolithic Age" is a poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of The Idler and in 1896 in his poetry collection The Seven Seas . The poem is the source of the quotation: "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And every single one of them is right."