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 (Notes edited by Mary Hamer) |
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[January 21 2008]
A note on the background
of the collection
by Mary Hamer
Publication history
by Mary Hamer
The poems are listed in the order determined by Kipling when he was preparing the collection for publication; click here for a listing by title, and here for a listing by first line.
| Title | First line | Notes |
| Dedication | Before a midnight breaks in storm |  |
| The Sea and the Hills | Who hath desired the sea? —the sight of salt water unbounded | |
| The Bell Buoy | They christened my brother of old | |
| Cruisers | As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine | |
| The Destroyers | The strength of twice three thousand horse | |
| White Horses | Where run your colts at pasture | |
| The Second Voyage | We've sent our little Cupids all ashore | |
| The Dykes | We have no heart for the fishing, we have no hand for the oar | |
| The Song of Diego Valdez | The God of Fair Beginnings | |
| The Broken Men | For things we never mention | |
| The Feet of the Young Men | Now the Four-way lodge is opened, and the Hunting Winds are loosed | |
| The Truce of the Bear | Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go | |
| The Old Men | This is our lot if we live so long, and labour unto the end | |
| The Explorer | There's no sense in going further—it's the edge of cultivation | |
| The Wage-slaves | Oh glorious are the guarded heights | |
| The Burial | When that great Kings return to clay | |
| General Joubert | With those that bred, with those that loosed the strife | |
| The Palace | When I was a King and a mason —a Master proven and skilled | |
| Sussex | God gave all men all earth to love | |
| Song of the Wise Children | When the darkened Fifties dip to the North | |
| Buddhe at Kamakura | Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way | |
| The White Man's Burden | Take up the White Man's Burden | |
| Pharaoh and the Sergeant | Said England unto Pharaoh, 'I must make a man of you' | |
| Our Lady of the Snows | A Nation spoke to a Nation | |
| 'Et Dona Ferentes' | In extended observation of the ways and works of man | |
| Kitchener's School | Oh Hushee, carry your shoes in your hand, and bow your head on your breast | |
| The Young Queen | Her hand was still on her sword-hilt, the spur was still on her heel | |
| Rimmon | Daily with knees that feign to quake | |
| The Old Issue | 'Here is nothing new , or aught unproven', say the trumpets | |
| Bridge Guard in the Karroo | Sudden the desert changes | |
| The Lesson | Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should | |
| The Files | Files | |
| The Reformers | Not in the camp his victory lies | |
| Dirge of Dead Sisters | Who recalls the twlight and the ranged tents in order | |
| The Islanders | No doubt but ye are the people —your throne is abive the King's | |
| The Peace of Dives | The Word came down to Dives, in Torment where he lay | |
| South Africa | Lived a woman wonderful | |
| The Settler | Here where my fresh-turned furrows run | |
| SERVICE SONGS | ||
| The Service Man | "Tommy" you was when it began | |
| Chant Pagan | Me that 'ave been what I've been | |
| M.I. | I wish my mother could see me now, with a fence-post under my arm | |
| Columns | Out o' the wilderness, dusty and dry | |
| The Parting of the Columns | We've rode and fiought and ate and drunk as rations come to hand | |
| Two Kopjes | Only two African kopjes | |
| The Instructor | At times when under cover I 'ave said | |
| Boots | We're foot—slog—slog—slog—slogging over Africa | |
| The Married Man | The bachelor, 'e fights for one | |
| Lichtenberg | Smells are surer than sounds or sights | |
| Stellenbosh | The General 'eard the firin' on the flank | |
| Half Ballad of Waterval | When by the labour of my 'ands | |
| Piet | I do not love my Empire's foes | |
| Wilful-Missing' | There is a world outside the one you know | |
| Ubique | There is a word you often see, pronounce it as you may | |
| The Return | Peace is declared, 'an I return | |
| Recessional | God of our fathers, known of old | |