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The Long Trail, Selected Poems, by Rudyard Kipling ; edited by Harry Ricketts

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was, as T.S. Eliot recognised, a supreme ballad-maker, a storyteller who relished the adventures and characters encountered in the wide world, and a man whose sympathies lay with those whose work and dedication sustained civic and political institutions. With humour, rhythmical skill and a gift for the unforgettable phrase, Kipling's poems have passed into common currency: 'If -', 'Mandalay', 'Gunga Din'... Harry Ricketts includes these in his selection, and many more. He also introduces a less familiar Kipling, lyrical, funny, compassionate, capable of bleak and savage satire. Often seen only as a laureate of empire, Kipling also speaks for the dispossessed and the victims of war. His fingerprints, Ricketts writes, 'are smudged all over twentieth-century literature': he affected Sassoon, Joyce, Auden and Brecht, and he still provides the necessary words at times of crisis

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by Rudyard Kipling ; edited by Harry Ricketts

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Selected Poems

Credat judaeus -- An auto-da-fe -- Overheard -- Donec gratus eram -- Ave imperatrix! -- The pious sub's creed -- A vision of India -- The flight of the bucket -- Jane Smith -- The vision of Hamid Ali -- Of birthdays -- The story of Uriah -- A code of morals -- The man who could write -- My rival -- La nuit blanche -- Arithmetic on the frontier -- One viceroy resigns -- The winners -- The love song of Har Dyal -- Inscription in copy of Plain tales from the hills presented to Mrs Hill -- The ballad of east and west -- The conundrum of the workshops -- Danny Deever -- Tommy -- The widow at Windsor -- Gunga Din -- Mandalay -- The young British soldier -- The last of the light brigade -- Tomlinson -- The long trail -- Song of the galley-slaves -- McAndrew's Hymn -- The song of the Banjo -- The three-decker -- In the Neolithic age -- 'When 'omer smote 'is blomin' lyre' -- 'For to admire' -- Sestina of the tramp-royal -- Recessional -- from Verses on games -- The white man's burden -- The absent-minded beggar -- The islanders -- from Just so verses -- Lichtenberg -- The return of the children -- Harp song of the Dane women -- 'Cities and thrones and powers'A song to Mithras -- A Pict song -- A smuggler's song -- The sons of Martha -- The looking-glass -- The way through the woods -- If- -- Eddi's service -- The female of the species -- Dane-geld -- The glory of the garden -- 'For all we have and are' -- Gehazi -- My boy Jack -- The comforters -- A translation -- The children -- Mine sweepers -- The fabulists -- En-dor -- Gethsemane -- The craftsman -- from Epitaphs of the war -- The gods of the copybook headings -- Chartres windows -- The changelings -- To the companions -- Jane's marriage -- Gipsy vans -- We and they -- The burden -- from The muse among the motors -- The disciple -- The mother's son -- The coiner -- Neighbours -- Hymn to physical pain -- The storm cone -- Samuel Pepys -- Hymn of breaking strain