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Fiction · 1897

Verses 1889-1896

Rudyard Kipling

Reading time
about 4 h
Length
53,774 words · 142 pages
Structure
88 sections
Language
English
Era
Modern

Verses 1889-1896, first published in 1897, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Volume XI
  2. To Wolcott Balestier
  3. Barrack-Room Ballads
  4. Danny Deever
  5. Tommy
  6. Soldier, Soldier
  7. Screw-Guns
  8. Cells
  9. Gunga Din
  10. Oonts
  11. Loot
  12. The Widow at Windsor
  13. Belts
  14. The Young British Soldier
  15. Mandalay
  16. Troopin’
  17. The Widow’s Party
  18. Ford O’ Kabul River
  19. Gentlemen-Rankers
  20. Route Marchin’
  21. Shillin’ a Day
  22. The Ballad of East and West
  23. The Last Suttee
  24. The Ballad of the King’s Mercy
  25. The Ballad of the King’s Jest
  26. With Scindia to Delhi
  27. The Ballad of Boh da Thone
  28. The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief
  29. The Rhyme of the Three Captains
  30. The Ballad of the “Clampherdown”
  31. The Ballad of the “Bolivar”
  32. The Sacrifice of Er-Heb
  33. The Explanation
  34. The Gift of the Sea
  35. Evarra and His Gods
  36. The Conundrum of the Workshops
  37. I — The Legend of Evil
  38. II
  39. The English Flag
  40. An Imperial Rescript
  41. Tomlinson
  42. L’Envoi to “Life’s Handicap”
  43. L’Envoi
  44. The Seven Seas
  45. To the City of Bombay
  46. A Song of the English
  47. The Coastwise Lights
  48. The Song of the Dead
  49. I
  50. II
  51. The Deep-Sea Cables
  52. The Song of the Sons
  53. The Song of the Cities
  54. England’s Answer
  55. The First Chantey
  56. The Last Chantey
  57. The Merchantmen
  58. M’andrew’s Hymn
  59. The Miracles
  60. The Native-Born
  61. The King
  62. The Rhyme of the Three Sealers
  63. The Derelict
  64. The Answer
  65. The Song of the Banjo
  66. The Liner She’s a Lady
  67. Mulholland’s Contract
  68. Anchor Song
  69. The Lost Legion
  70. The Sea-Wife
  71. Hymn Before Action
  72. To the True Romance
  73. The Flowers
  74. The Last Rhyme of True Thomas
  75. In the Neolithic Age
  76. The Story of Ung
  77. The Three-Decker
  78. An American
  79. The “Mary Gloster”
  80. Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
  81. Barrack-Room Ballads
  82. Sappers
  83. That Day
  84. Cholera Camp
  85. The Ladies
  86. Bill ‘Awkins
  87. The Mother-Lodge
  88. The Sergeant’s Weddin’
  89. The Jacket
  90. The ‘Eathen
  91. The Shut-Eye Sentry
  92. For to Admire
  93. L’Envoi

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Rudyard Kipling

1865–1936 · Modern

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay, sent to England at five, and returned to India at sixteen to work as a journalist in Lahore and Allahabad, where the stories collected in Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) were written. Back in England from 1889, and for some years in Vermont, he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), Captains Courageous, Kim (1901), the Just So Stories and a great deal of verse. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, the first English-language writer to receive it.

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