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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2013.
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Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42030006*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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!"