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Verses, 1889–1896

by Rudyard Kipling

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  1. 1Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
  2. 2Barrack-Room Ballads
  3. 3Tommy
  4. 4“Fuzzy-Wuzzy”
  5. 5Soldier, Soldier
  6. 6Screw-Guns
  7. 7Cells
  8. 8Gunga Din
  9. 9Oonts
  10. 10Loot
  11. 11“Snarleyow”
  12. 12The Widow at Windsor
  13. 13Belts
  14. 14The Young British Soldier
  15. 15Mandalay
  16. 16Troopin’
  17. 17The Widow’s Party
  18. 18Ford o’ Kabul River
  19. 19Gentlemen-Rankers
  20. 20Route Marchin’
  21. 21Shillin’ a Day
  22. 22Other Verses
  23. 23The Last Suttee
  24. 24The Ballad of the King’s Mercy
  25. 25The Ballad of the King’s Jest
  26. 26With Scindia to Delhi
  27. 27The Ballad of Boh Da Thone
  28. 28The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief
  29. 29The Rhyme of the Three Captains
  30. 30The Ballad of the “Clampherdown”
  31. 31The Ballad of the “Bolivar”
  32. 32The Sacrifice of Er-Heb
  33. 33The Explanation
  34. 34The Gift of the Sea
  35. 35Evarra and His Gods
  36. 36The Conundrum of the Workshops
  37. 37The Legend of Evil
  38. 38The English Flag
  39. 39“Cleared”
  40. 40An Imperial Rescript
  41. 41Tomlinson
  42. 42L’Envoi to “Life’s Handicap”
  43. 43L’Envoi
  44. 44The Seven Seas — Dedication
  45. 45The Seven Seas
  46. 46The First Chantey
  47. 47The Last Chantey
  48. 48The Merchantmen
  49. 49M’Andrew’s Hymn
  50. 50The Miracles
  51. 51The Native-Born
  52. 52The King
  53. 53The Rhyme of the Three Sealers
  54. 54The Derelict
  55. 55The Answer
  56. 56The Song of the Banjo
  57. 57The Liner She’s a Lady
  58. 58Mulholland’s Contract
  59. 59Anchor Song
  60. 60The Lost Legion
  61. 61The Sea-Wife
  62. 62Hymn Before Action
  63. 63To the True Romance
  64. 64The Flowers
  65. 65The Last Rhyme of True Thomas
  66. 66In the Neolithic Age
  67. 67The Story of Ung
  68. 68The Three-Decker
  69. 69An American
  70. 70The “Mary Gloster”
  71. 71Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
  72. 72Barrack-Room Ballads
  73. 73“Back to the Army Again”
  74. 74“Birds of Prey” March
  75. 75“Soldier an’ Sailor Too”
  76. 76Sappers
  77. 77That Day
  78. 78“The Men That Fought at Minden”
  79. 79Cholera Camp
  80. 80The Ladies
  81. 81Bill ’Awkins
  82. 82The Mother-Lodge
  83. 83“Follow Me ‘Ome”
  84. 84The Sergeant’s Weddin’
  85. 85The Jacket
  86. 86The ‘Eathen
  87. 87The Shut-Eye Sentry
  88. 88“Mary, Pity Women!”
  89. 89For to Admire
  90. 90L’Envoi

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