Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05044-0 - 100 Poems: Old and New Rudyard Kipling Edited by Thomas Pinney Table of Contents More information Contents Preface xi 1 How it Seemed to Us 3 2 A Voyage 4 3 A Morning Ride 6 4 The Dedication 7 5 WithaLocket 9 6 “The Wop of Asia – That Lordly Beast” 11 7 The Story of Tommy 12 8 The Descent of the Punkah 14 9 “As One Who Throws Earth’s Gold Away in Scorn” 16 10 The Compliments of the Season 17 11 Distress in the Himalayas 19 12 Cupid’s Department 21 13 “Further Information” 23 14 New Year Resolutions 25 15 Concerning a Jawab´ 27 16 “Au Revoir” 29 17 The Witching of Teddy O’Neal 31 18 Itu and his God 33 19 “Liberavi Animam Meam” 36 20 “A Coming May” 39 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05044-0 - 100 Poems: Old and New Rudyard Kipling Edited by Thomas Pinney Table of Contents More information 21 The Letter of Halim the Potter to Yusuf 40 22 To These People 44 23 The Love Song of Har Dyal 47 24 The Irish Conspiracy 48 25 “A Burning Sun in Cloudless Skies” 51 26 Apples 52 27 Berries 53 28 Grapes 54 29 The Peach 55 30 Plums 56 31 The Watermelon 57 32 “At the Back of Knightsbridge Barricks” 58 33 Danny Deever 60 34 Tommy 62 35 Laudatores Actoris Empti 64 36 Gunga Din 66 37 “My New-Cut Ashlar” 69 38 The Turkey and the Algebra 71 39 “Forgive Us the Slap and the Pinch, Dear Lord” 73 40 “It was a Ship of the P&O” 74 41 “In the Hush of an April Dawning, when the Streets were Velvety Still” 78 42 “The Lord shall Change the Hearts of Men” 79 43 “To the Land of Little Children where Babies Rule the Day” 81 44 “To the Dancers” 82 45 “You May Talk o’ your Music the Sweetest o’ Tunes” 83 46 “The Stumbling-Block of Western Lore” 85 47 In the Neolithic Age 86 vi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05044-0 - 100 Poems: Old and New Rudyard Kipling Edited by Thomas Pinney Table of Contents More information 48 “In the Microscopical Hinterland of a Cramped Sub-Continent” 88 49 Lines to a Superior Young Lady on the Occasion of Her First Manifesting a Will of Her Own 90 50 “Bobs” 91 51 The Law of the Jungle 94 52 Morning Song in the Jungle 97 53 “You can work it out by Fractions or by Simple Rule of Three” 99 54 “Hello, Brander! Lemme Look” 100 55 “In August was the Jackal Born” 102 56 The Situation 103 57 “Zogbaum Draws with a Pencil” 105 58 “When ’Omer Smote ’is Bloomin’ Lyre” 106 59 The King 107 60 Recessional 109 61 The White Man’s Burden 111 62 The Press 114 63 “Ashes of Fire at Even” 116 64 Merrow Down 117 65 “’Oo is it Mashes the Country Nurse?” 119 66 “I have known Shadow” 120 67 The Silent Army 121 68 South Africa 123 69 The Haldane in Germany 125 70 “Cities and Thrones and Powers” 127 71 Harp Song of the Dane Women 128 72 A Song to Mithras 129 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05044-0 - 100 Poems: Old and New Rudyard Kipling Edited by Thomas Pinney Table of Contents More information 73 The Coin Speaks 130 74 The Baths of Biddlestone 132 75 The Ballad of the Telemark 135 76 The Way Through the Woods 136 77 If – 137 78 The Female of the Species 139 79 “This is the Prayer the Cave Man Prayed” 142 80 To a Librarian 144 81 Jobson’s Amen 145 82 “He that Died o’ Wednesday” 147 83 “My Boy Jack” 148 84 Sons of the Suburbs 149 85 “To All our People Now on Land” 152 86 The Gods of the Copybook Headings 153 87 “Some to Women, Some to Wine” 156 88 London Stone 157 89 1924 159 90 The Survival 160 91 “Ah, would Swift Ships had never been about the Seas to Rove!” 161 92 “Oh Belted Sons of Treason” 162 93 The Burden of Jerusalem 163 94 “Namely” 166 95 “There’s a Gentleman of France – Better met by Choice than Chance” 169 96 “This is the Doom of the Makers – Their Daemon lives in their Pen” 170 97 “They pass – They pass – And all” 171 98 “You have Lied to the Dead Beneath” 172 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05044-0 - 100 Poems: Old and New Rudyard Kipling Edited by Thomas Pinney Table of Contents More information 99 “Naughty Lydia with a Kiss” 173 100 “’Tis Cold! Heap on the Logs – And Let’s get Tight!” 174 Sources 175 Index of titles 180 Index of first lines 184 ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org.