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The Anglican Church of Canada adopted the poem as a hymn, [9] as has the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a 1985 hymnal. [10] Leslie Fish set the poem to music, along with several other Kipling poems, on her album "Our Fathers of Old". T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection A Choice of Kipling's Verse.
In this poem, the border is the North West Frontier of the British Raj (which was, at the time the poem was written, on the boundary of the Raj, but is now in Pakistan), [3] but it harks back to the English/Scottish Border. The second line contains the word "lifted", a Scots term for "stolen". The fourth line contains the word "calkin", a term ...
"A Death-Bed" is a poem by English poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It was first published in April 1919, in the collection The Years Between. Later publications identified the year of writing as 1918. [1] [2] Kipling's only son, John, had been reported missing in action in 1915, during the Battle of Loos, leaving
Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War , titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations (1903), can be considered part of the Ballads, as can a number of other uncollected pieces.
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, characterized by biographer Sir David Gilmour as one of several "ferocious post-war eruptions" of Kipling's souring sentiment concerning the state of Anglo-European society. [1] It was first published in the Sunday Pictorial of London on 26 October 1919.
Moulmein from the Great Pagoda, Samuel Bourne, 1870 "Mandalay" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, [a] and first collected in Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892.
McAndrew's Hymn" is a poem by English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was begun in 1893, and first published in December 1894 in Scribner's Magazine. [1] [2] It was collected in Kipling's The Seven Seas of 1896. Some editions title the poem "M'Andrew's Hymn". [Note 1]
It is a tongue-in-cheek work by the young bachelor Kipling, who affected a very worldly-wise stance. In it, he takes as his epigraph the report of evidence in a breach of promise case, "You must choose between me and your cigar". [1] The poem simply has a narrator musing on the difference between his fiancée Maggie and his habit of smoking cigars: