The poems are listed by first line; click here for a list by title, here for a list by edition, and here for a list as set out by Kipling for the Edition de Luxe in 1900.
First line | Title | Notes | |
A great and glorious thing it is | Arithmetic on the Frontier | ||
A wanderer from East to West | A Ballade of Bad Entertainment | ||
Ahasuerus Jenkins of the “Operatic Own” | Army Headquarters | ||
As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely | As the Bell Clinks | ||
Ay, lay him ‘neath the Simla pine- | Possibilities | ||
Beneath the deep verandah’s shade | The Moon of Other Days | ||
Boanerges Blitzen, servant of the Queen | The Man who could Write | ||
By the Laws of the Family Circle ’tis written in letters of brass | Public Waste | ||
By the well, where the bullocks go | What the People said | ||
Come here, ye lasses av swate Parnassis! | A Levée in the Plains | ||
Delilah Aberystwith was a lady – not too young- | Delilah | ||
Dim dawn behind the tamarisks – the sky is saffron-yellow | Christmas in India | ||
Ere the steamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry | The Post that Fitted | ||
Pagett, M.P., was a liar, and a fluent liar therewith,- | Pagett, M.P. | ||
Eyes of grey – a sodden quay | The Lovers’ Litany | ||
How shall she know the worship we would do her? | The Song of the Women | ||
How sweet is the shepherd’s sweet life! | The Masque of Plenty | ||
Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride of Bow Bazaar | What Happened | ||
If it were mine to choose | The Man and the Shadow | ||
I go to concert, party, ball | My Rival | ||
I had seen, as dawn was breaking | La Nuit Blanche | ||
I have eaten your bread and salt | Prelude | ||
I have worked for ten seasons or more | The Plaint of the Junior Civilian | ||
If it be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai | Certain Maxims of Hafiz | ||
If down here I chance to die | A Ballade of Burial | ||
Imprimis he was ‘broke’. Thereafter left | Giffen’s Debt | ||
In the name of the Empress of India, make way | The Overland Mail | ||
It was an artless Bandar and he danced upon a pine | Divided Destinies | ||
It was an August evening and , in snowy garments clad | Municipal | ||
I’ve danced till my shoes are outworn | Carmen Simlaense | ||
Jack Barrett went to Quetta | The Story of Uriah | ||
Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse | The Mare’s Nest | ||
Jenny and Me were engaged, you see | Pink Donimoes | ||
Moralists we | O Baal, Hear us ! | ||
My garden blazes brightly with the rose-bush and the peach | In Springtime | ||
No hope, no change! The clouds have shut us in | Two Months | ||
None whole or clean,’ we cry, ‘or free from stain | The Last Department | ||
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order | A Code of Morals | ||
Now the New Year, reviving Last Year’s Debt | The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin | ||
Oh gallant was our galley from her carven steering-wheel | The Galley Slave | ||
One moment, bid the horses wait | A Ballade of Jakko Hill | ||
Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout | The Betrothed | ||
Potiphar Gubbins, C.E. | Study of an Elevation in Indian Ink | ||
Rustum Beg of Kolazai – slightly backward Native State | A Legend of the Foreign Office | ||
So here’s your Empire. No more wine, then? Good | One Viceroy Resigns | ||
So long as ‘neath the Kalka hills | An Old Song | ||
The eldest son bestrides him | The Undertaker’s Horse | ||
The smoke upon your Altar dies | Envoi | ||
The wind in the pine sings Her praises | Our Lady of Rest | ||
There’s a widow in sleepy Chester | The Grave of the Hundred Head | ||
Think not, O thou from College late deported | Lucifer | ||
This fell when dinner-time was done- | The Fall of Jock Gillespie | ||
Twas Fultah Fisher’s boarding-house | The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding House | ||
We are very slightly changed | General Summary | ||
We knit a riven land to strength by cannon, code and sword | For the Women | ||
What have we ever done to bear this grudge?’ | The Plea of the Simla Dancers | ||
When the flush of the new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold | New Lamps for Old’ | ||
Where the sober-coloured cultivator smiles | A Tale of Two Cities | ||
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty, my soul going out from afar? | To the Unknown Goddess |