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"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. The poem is set in colonial Burma , then part of British India .
Oley Speaks set to music a portion of Kipling's poem Mandalay, 1890, [2] from Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, published in 1892 and 1896. The song comprises three verses of Kipling's poem: the first, second and sixth. The text of the song is a first-person description by a British soldier in 19th-century Burma, who has returned to Britain.
First (1892) edition of Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (publ. Methuen). The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect.
Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din". [1]
Pages in category "Poetry by Rudyard Kipling" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. ... Mandalay (poem) The Mary Gloster; McAndrew's Hymn; My ...
Debits and Credits is a 1926 collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, an English writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. Four of the poems that accompany the stories are whimsically presented as translations from the "Bk.
This category is designed to allow an easier searching of the immense number of Kipling's poems by grouping those that are set in India. These were mostly written before he left in 1889. Various sub-categories are envisaged, grouping poems about different settings, and with different subjects and focuses; and others as they come to seem useful.
The Road to Mandalay can refer to: "Mandalay" (poem), of 1890 by Rudyard Kipling, whose chorus begins "On the road to Mandalay" "On the Road to Mandalay" (song), a 1907 musical setting by Oley Speaks of the Kipling poem; The Road to Mandalay, a 1917 novel by Bithia Mary Croker; The Road to Mandalay, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning