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    The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling Vol.1: "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
    The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling Vol.1: "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
    The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling Vol.1: "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. Here we look at the works of Rudyard Kipling; that great Victorian, that great writer of Empire, that great man; from ‘The Jungle Book’ to ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ to a great and voluminous poet with works of the calibre of ‘If’ and ‘On The Road To Mandalay’ a man at the top of his craft and always aware of his affect on the minds of us mere mortals. With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem. Whether ‘If..’ deserves that credit or not is irrelevant to this empire wandering artist who was not only a fine story teller but a great poet of the Empire, its people and views. In today’ society some of what he had to say was undoubtedly wrong but of its time and we can learn much from that as well as all that was good about his other work. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    Release dateSep 24, 2013
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    The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling Vol.1: "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling’s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems “Mandalay” and “Gunga Din.” Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award. 

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      The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling Vol.1 - Rudyard Kipling

      The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.

      Here we look at the works of Rudyard Kipling; that great Victorian, that great writer of Empire, that great man; from ‘The Jungle Book’ to ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ to a great and voluminous poet with works of the calibre of ‘If’ and ‘On The Road To Mandalay’ a man at the top of his craft and always aware of his affect on the minds of us mere mortals.

      With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem.  Whether ‘If..’ deserves that credit or not is irrelevant to this empire wandering artist who was not only a fine story teller but a great poet of the Empire, its people and views.  In today’ society some of what he had to say was undoubtedly wrong but of its time and we can learn much from that as well as all that was good about his other work.

      Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee    The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      If…

      The Absent Minded Beggar

      Gunga Din

      Recessional

      Kim

      Danny Deever

      Tommy

      The Ballad Of East And West

      Fuzzy Wuzzy

      Cells

      A Song Of The English

      Cruisers

      Ballad Of Fisher's Boarding-House

      Mandalay

      To The City Of Bombay

      In Springtime

      Mother O’ Mine

      My Father’s Chair

      Our Father Also

      Old Mother Laidinwool

      Pink Dominoes

      The Decline Of The West

      The English Flag

      The Explanation

      The Last Of The Light Brigade

      The Mother’s Son

      The Prairie

      The White Man’s Burden

      As The Bell Clinks

      England’s Answer

      The Way Through The Woods

      The Legend Of Evil

      The Explanation

      When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted

      Seal Lullaby

      Cuckoo Song

      Two Months

      The Egg Shell

      A Nativity

      A Code Of Morals

      I Keep Six Honest Serving Men

      The Young British Soldier

      If…

      IF you can keep your head when all about you

      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

      If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

      But make allowance for their doubting too;

      If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

      Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

      Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

      And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

      If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

      If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

      If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

      And treat those two impostors just the same;

      If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

      Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

      Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

      And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

      If you can make one heap of all your winnings

      And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

      And lose, and start again at your beginnings

      And never breathe a word about your loss;

      If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

      To serve your turn long after they are gone,

      And so hold on when there is nothing in you

      Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

      If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

      ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

      if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

      If all men count with you, but none too much;

      If you can fill the unforgiving minute

      With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

      Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

      And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

      The Absent Minded Beggar

      When you've shouted Rule Britannia,

      When you've sung God save the Queen,

      When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth,

      Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine

      For a gentleman in khaki ordered South?

      He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great -

      But we and Paul must take him as we find him -

      He is out on active service, wiping something off a slate

      And he's left a lot of little things

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