100 Poems

Old and New

Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Pinney

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781108452847
• eBook ISBN: 9781107454996
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of one of the most popular poems in the English language, 'If–', has long captured the interest of poetry lovers. Here, Thomas Pinney brings together a selection of well-established favourites and the best of the previously uncollected and unpublished poems from The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2013). The poems, whether exploring the colonial experience, exposing the injustice of war, or appreciating the beauties of nature, resonate with Kipling's keen observations of his world and strong sense of poetic rhythm. Discovered by Pinney in an array of unlikely hiding places, the uncollected and unpublished poems show the diversity and development of Kipling's talent over his lifetime, and, when combined with long-held favourites, offer readers a unique opportunity to experience Kipling's mastery of poetry in a new way.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• 1 How It Seemed to Us
• 2 A Voyage
• 3 A Morning Ride
• 4 The Dedication
• 5 With a Locket
• 6 “The Wop of Asia - that lordly Beast”
• 7 The Story of Tommy
• 8 The Descent of the Punkah
• 9 “As one who throws Earth’s gold away in scorn”
• 10 The Compliments of the Season
• 11 Distress in the Himalayas
• 12 Cupid’s Department
• 13 “Further Information”
• 14 New Year Resolutions
• 15 Concerning a Jawáb
• 16 “Au Revoir”
• 17 The Witching of Teddy O’Neal
• 18 Itu and His God
• 19 “Liberavi Animam Meam”
• 20 “A coming May”
• 21 The Letter of Halim the Potter to Yusuf His Father and Master Craftsman in the walled city of Lahore; written on the fifth day of the month of the scales
• 22 To These People
• 23 The Love Song of Har Dyal
• 24 The Irish Conspiracy
• 25 “A burning sun in cloudless skies”
• 26 Apples
• 27 Berries
• 28 Grapes
• 29 The Peach
• 30 Plums
• 31 The Watermelon
• 32 “At the back of Knightsbridge Barricks”
• 33 Danny Deever
• 34 Tommy
• 35 Laudatores Actoris Empti
• 36 Gunga Din
• 37 “My New-Cut Ashlar”
• 38 The Turkey and the Algebra
• 39 “Forgive us the slap and the pinch, dear Lord”
• 40 “It was a ship of the P&O”
• 41 “In the hush of an April dawning, when the streets were velvety still”
• 42 “The Lord shall change the hearts of men”
• 43 “To the land of little children where the babies rule the day”
• 44 “To the Dancers”
• 45 “You may talk o’ your music the sweetest o’ tunes”
• 46 “The Stumbling-block of Western lore”
• 47 In the Neolithic Age
• 48 “In the microscopical Hinterland of a cramped sub-continent”
• 49 Lines to a Superior Young Lady on the Occasion of her First Manifesting a Will of Her Own
• 50 “Bobs”
• 51 The Law of the Jungle
• 52 Morning Song in the Jungle
• 53 “You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three”
• 54 “Hello, Brander! Lemme look”
• 55 “In August was the Jackal born”
• 56 The Situation
• 57 “Zogbaum draws with a pencil”
• 58 “When ’Omer smote ’is bloomin’ lyre”
• 59 The King
• 60 Recessional
• 61 The White Man’s Burden
• 62 The Press The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat
• 63 “Ashes of fire at even”
• 64 Merrow Down
• 65 “’Oo is it mashes the country nurse?”
• 66 “I have known Shadow”
• 67 The Silent Army
• 68 South Africa
• 69 The Haldane in Germany
• 70 “Cities and Thrones and Powers”
• 71 Harp Song of the Dane Women
• 72 A Song to Mithras
• 73 The Coin Speaks
• 74 The Baths of Biddlestone
• 75 The Ballad of the Telemark
• 76 The Way through the Woods
• 77 If -
• 78 The Female of the Species 1911
• 79 “This is the prayer the Cave Man prayed”
• 80 To a Librarian
• 81 Jobson’s Amen In the Presence
• 82 “He that died o’ Wednesday”
• 83 “My Boy Jack” (1914-18)
• 84 Sons of the Suburbs
• 85 “To all our people now on land”
• 86 The Gods of the Copybook Headings
• 87 “Some to Women, some to Wine”
• 88 London Stone
• 89 1924
• 90 The Survival Horace, Book V. Ode 22 The Janeites
• 91 “Ah, would swift ships had never been about the seas to rove!”
• 92 “Oh belted Sons of Treason”
• 93 The Burden of Jerusalem
• 94 “Namely” Chant Merchant-Maritime of Names
• 95 “There’s a gentleman of France - better met by choice than chance”
• 96 “This is the doom of the Makers - their Daemon lives in their pen”
• 97 “They pass - they pass - and all”
• 98 “You have lied to the Dead beneath”
• 99 “Naughty Lydia with a kiss”
• 100 “’Tis cold! Heap on the logs - and let’s get tight!”
• Sources
• Index
• Index