100 poems old and new

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 bes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, autor (autor), Pinney, Thomas, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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  • How it seemed to us
  • A voyage
  • A morning ride
  • The dedication
  • With a locket
  • "The wop of Asia
  • that lordly beast"
  • The story of Tommy
  • The descent of the Punkah
  • "As one who throws earth's gold away in scorn"
  • The compliments of the season
  • Distress in the Himalayas
  • Cupid's department
  • "Further information"
  • New Year resolutions
  • Concerning a Jawáb
  • "Au revoir"
  • The witching of Teddy O'Neal
  • Itu and his God
  • "Liveravi animam meam"
  • "A coming May"
  • The letter of Halim the potter to Yusuf
  • To these people
  • The love song of Har Dyal
  • The Irish conspiracy
  • "A burning sun in cloudless skies"
  • Apples
  • Berries
  • Grapes
  • The peach
  • Plums
  • The watermelon
  • "At the back of Knightsbridge Barricks"
  • Danny Deever
  • Tommy
  • Laudatores actoris empti
  • Gunga din
  • "My new-cut ashlar"
  • The Turkey and the algebra
  • "Forgive us the slap and the pinch, dear Lord"
  • "It was a ship of the P & O"
  • "In the hush of an April dawning, when the streets were velvety still"
  • "The Lord shall change the hearts of men"
  • "To the land of little children where babies rule the day"
  • "To the dancers"
  • "You may talk o' your music the sweetest o' tunes"
  • "The stumbling-block of Western lore"
  • In the Neolithic age.
  • "In the microscopical hinterland of a cramped sub-continent"
  • Lines to a superior young lady on the occasion of her first manifesting a will of her own
  • "Bobs"
  • The law of the jungle
  • Morning song in the jungle
  • "You can work it out by fractions or by simple rule of three"
  • "Hello, Brander! Lemme look"
  • "In August was the jackal born"
  • The situation
  • "Zogbaum draws with a pencil"
  • "When 'Omer Smote' is bloomin' lyre"
  • The king
  • Recessional
  • The white man's burden
  • The press
  • "Ashes of fire at even"
  • Merrow down
  • "Oo is it mashes the country nurse?"
  • "I have known shadow"
  • The silent army
  • South Africa
  • The Haldane in Germany
  • "Cities and thrones and powers"
  • Harp song of the Dane women
  • A song to Mithras
  • The coin speaks
  • The baths of Biddlestone
  • The ballad of the Telemark
  • The way through the woods
  • If-
  • The female of the species
  • "This is the prayer the cave man prayed"
  • To a librarian
  • Jobson's Amen
  • "He that died o' Wednesday"
  • "My boy Jack"
  • Sons of the suburbs
  • "To all our people now on land"
  • The gods of the copybook headings
  • "Some to women, some to wine"
  • London stone
  • 1924
  • The survival
  • "Ah, would swift ships had never been about the seas to rove!
  • "Oh belted sons of treason"
  • The burden of Jerusalem
  • "Namely"
  • "There's a gentleman of France
  • better met by choice than chance"
  • "This is the doom of the makers
  • their Daemon lives in their pen"
  • "They pass
  • they pass
  • and all"
  • "You have lied to the dead beneath"
  • "Naughty Lydia with a kiss"
  • "'Tis cold! heap on the logs
  • and let's get tight!"