kipling

the complete poems of

RUDYARD KIPLING

POEMS

Departmental Ditties (1886)

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892)

The Seven Seas (1896)

The Five Nations (1903)

The Muse among the Motors (1904)

The Years Between (1919)

Uncollected Poems


POEMS

Departmental Ditties

and Other Verses

by Rudyard Kipling


The Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore 1886

departmental ditties

Departmental Ditties

Prelude

General Summary

Army Head-Quarters

Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink

A Legend of the Foreign Office

The Story of Uriah

The Post That Fitted

Public Waste

Delilah

What Happened

Pink Dominoes

The Man Who Could Write

Municipal

A Code of Morals

The Last Department

Other Verses

To the Unknown Goddess

The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin

La Nuit Blanche

My Rival

The Lovers’ Litany

A Ballad of Burial

Divided Destinies

The Masque of Plenty

The Mare’s Nest

Possibilities

Christmas in India

Pagett, M.P.

The Song of the Women

A Ballade of Jakko Hill

The Plea of the Simla Dancers

The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House

“As the Bell Clinks”

An Old Song

Certain Maxims of Hafiz

The Grave of the Hundred Head

The Moon of Other Days

The Overland Mail

What the People Said

The Undertaker’s Horse

The Fall of Jock Gillespie

Arithmetic on the Frontier

One Viceroy Resigns

The Betrothed

A Tale of Two Cities

Giffen’s Debt

In Spring Time

Two Months

The Galley-Slave

L’Envoi

Departmental Ditties