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Subject: KIPLING, RUDYARD (1865-1936)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD IN THE MANNER OF R-DY-RD K-PL-NG, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I was walkin' the jungle round, a-killin' of tigers and time
Last Line: "e's crowdin' us out! -- ""er majesty's poet -- soldier an' sailor too!"
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


ADDITION TO KIPLING'S THE DEAD KING (EDWARD VII), 1910, by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wisely and well was it said of him, 'hang it all, he's a'
Last Line: For we know that in heaven above at this moment he's saving god
Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max
Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


ASK MISTER KIPLING, by CARROLL ARNETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you can lose
Last Line: But more probably %you're a dumb kid %itching to grow up %soyou can pay %adult prices
Alternate Author Name(s): Gogisgi
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows
Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


FEMININE IF, by MARY HOLTBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you can wait on those who'll keep you waiting
Last Line: Don't wonder what it's like to be a nun
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


FOR A NOVEL OF HALL CAINE'S, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: He sits in a sea-green grotto with a bucket of lurid paint
Last Line: Things as they ain't.
Alternate Author Name(s): Droch
Subject(s): Caine, Hall (1853-1931); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


FREEDOM IS IN PERIL, by OLGA KATZIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the last newspaper is printed and the ink is faded
Last Line: And no one will then remember the sort of people we are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sagittarius
Subject(s): Freedom; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Liberty


FROM HAROLD WILSON'S SELECTED POEMS, by M. K. CHEESEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went out of the conf'rence to get a pint of beer
Last Line: I thinks they might have waited for my effing book
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Wilson, Harold


HERE IS THE TALE; AFTER RUDYARD KIPLING, by ANTHONY C. DEANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now jack looked up - it was time to sup, and the bucket was
Last Line: She had felt the sting of a walloping -- she hath paid the price of her mirth!
Variant Title(s): Jack And Jill
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN ALL ABOUT YOU, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Self-control


IOWA, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: If yeats, remembering the swans in irish
Last Line: With many songs!
Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Iowa; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


KIPLING AT SOUTHSEA, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grown up you brandished courage words
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


L'ENVOI, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When earth's last kettle is spotless, and the dishcloths twisted and dried
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


LEGEND OF REALISM, by HILDA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the sorrowful story
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


MRS. KIPLING HELD UP TO MY WIFE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rudyard kipling, one impatient day
Last Line: My -- waste-basket -- is as good as his!
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


P. C., X, 36, by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then it's collar 'im tight
Last Line: An' it's trunch, trunch, truncheon does the trick.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max
Variant Title(s): Police Station Ditties
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


POST-RECESSIONAL, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God of your fathers, known of old
Last Line: For god forgives and men forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 9. RUDYARD KIPLING, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then if any sculptor had / captured in mid-spring
Last Line: "you'd have said ""that's kipling."
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


RECRUITING SONG, by MICHAEL FOSTER (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you
Last Line: And — which is more — you're welcome to it, son!
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Military Recruitment


REWARDS AND FAIRIES, by ROGER WODDIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you can sleep when those who write about you
Last Line: And — which is more — you'll make a mint, my son!
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


THE GLORY OF 'THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Aye, take 'the white man's burden'
Last Line: Nor liberty mere creed.
Subject(s): Freedom; Imperialism; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); War; Liberty


THE IMMORTALS, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His son is dead,' they say, 'his son is / dead'
Last Line: Dust; still immortal; eternal and unsung.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


TO R.K., by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will there never come a season
Last Line: And the haggards ride no more?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Variant Title(s): Lapsus Calami;the Millennium
Subject(s): Haggard, Rider (1856-1925); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Mankind; Millenium; Human Race


TO RUDYARD KIPLING, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your very heart was england's; it is just
Last Line: That england's very heart should keep your dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


TO RUDYARD KIPLING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To do some worthy deed of charity
Last Line: Mine own goes homing back to thee and thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Childhood


WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We read the same books as children - kipling
Last Line: Line, gathering my way before the salty wind.
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips