"Recessional (poem) ""Recessional"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was composed for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, in 1897. “Recessional” contains five stanzas of six lines each. A.W. Yates sees comparisons of form and phrase in Thomas Wyatt's ""Forget not yet"". As a recessional is a hymn or piece of music that is sung or played at the end of a religious service, in some respects the title dictates the form of the poem, which is that of a traditional English hymn. Initially, Kipling had not intended to write a poem for the Jubilee. It was written and published only"
"Barrack-Room Ballads 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. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems ""Gunga Din"", ""Tommy"", ""Mandalay"", and ""Danny Deever"", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the ""Scots Observer"" in the first half of 1890, and collected in ""Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses"" in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in ""The Seven Seas"" under the same title."
"The Ballad of the ""Clampherdown"" ""The Ballad of the ""Clampherdown"""" is a satirical poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1892. The poem describes an engagement between the ""Clampherdown"", a fictional Royal Navy battleship, and a light cruiser of indeterminate origin; she is described as """"of the ancient foe"""", and carrying ""a dainty Hotchkiss gun"", which implies the French navy. After the ""Clampherdown""s guns fail to sink the cruiser, and she drifts aimlessly being shelled, she collides with the cruiser, and her crew ""out cutlasses, and board!"" the enemy. It was inspired by a letter written to the ""St James's Gazette"","
"Mary Ambree Mary Ambree ( 1584) was an English army captain who participated in the liberation of the Belgian city Ghent during the war against Spain. She is frequently mentioned in ballads. In 1584 the Spanish captured Ghent, and Captain Mary Ambree, along with several other Dutch and English volunteers, fought to liberate the city. It was said that she was avenging her lover, a sergeant major who died during the siege. She was a popular subject of ballads during the 17th-century from 1620s onwards. Ambree was the subject of the English ballad that provided the title for Rudyard Kipling's"
"with her, since they feared to receive a bad reputation sympathizing with Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née"
"The Lady of Shalott ""The Lady of Shalott"" is a lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). It tells the story of a young noble woman imprisoned in a tower on an island near Camelot. She can only watch the outside world through a mirror and must weave what she sees. She has heard that if she looks at Camelot directly, she will be cursed. One of the poet's best-known works, its vivid medieval romanticism and enigmatic symbolism inspired many painters, especially the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers. Like his other early poems – ""Sir Lancelot and Queen"
"Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née Vanacott) who had married at Donyatt, Somerset, in 1749, and was baptised 'Polle(y)' (""Spelt"
"Mandalay (poem) ""Mandalay"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in ""Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses"" in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. The poem became well known, especially after it was set to music by Oley Speaks in 1907, and was admired by Kipling's contemporaries, though some of them objected to its muddled geography. It has been criticised"
"The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, also known as The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales, is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1888. After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider, insisting that it was all just a mistake. But Jack wants nothing to do with her and continues to spurn her. Eventually Mrs. Wessington dies, much to Jack's relief. However,"
"he is elected president of the regiment's Dramatic Club, and spends his winnings on scenery and costume. He is now known as ""Mrs Senior Subaltern"" (for reasons of verisimilitude, Kipling is preserving the 'real names' of the characters in the Regiment), which is confusing when Lionel marries his real fiancée. His Wedded Wife ""His Wedded Wife"" by Rudyard Kipling was published in the ""Civil and Military Gazette"" on February 25, 1887, and in book form in the first Indian edition of ""Plain Tales from the Hills"" in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. It is one of the"
"was buried beside his wife'. In 2008, British historian John Charmley (not all of whose works are accepted without question) compared Sir Anthony to Conservative Prime Minister Bonar Law and Dickie to his predecessor Arthur Balfour. Later in 2008, British journalist Peter Stothard said that ""The ""Mary Gloster"""" had been or was a favourite poem both of American writer Mark Twain and of British politician Margaret Thatcher. The Mary Gloster ""The ""Mary Gloster"""" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It is dated 1894, but seems to have been first published in his 1896 collection ""The Seven Seas""."
"Danny Deever ""Danny Deever"" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution is viewed by his regiment, paraded to watch it, and the poem is composed of the comments they exchange as they see him hanged. The poem was first published on 22 February 1890 in the ""Scots Observer"", in America later in the"
"The Ballad of East and West ""The Ballad of East and West"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier (then on the boundary of the British Raj, nowadays in Pakistan), steals the British Colonel's prize mare. The Colonel's son, who commands a troop of the Guides, asks if any of his men know where Kamal might be. One does, and tells him, and warns him of the dangers of entering Kamal's territory guarded by tribesmen concealed among the rocks"
"Ballad of Reading Gaol"". Wooldridge, known as ""C.T.W"" in the poem, was a trooper serving with the Royal Horse Guards in Windsor who had killed his wife Laura with a cut-throat razor during a fit of jealous rage. Wilde recounts that the condemned man seemed resigned to his fate on the gallows, and Wooldridge even petitioned the Home Secretary requesting that he not be reprieved, despite a plea for clemency submitted by the jury at his trial and various petitions organised by the residents of Berkshire. He told the prison chaplain that he wanted to die in payment for his"
"His Wedded Wife ""His Wedded Wife"" by Rudyard Kipling was published in the ""Civil and Military Gazette"" on February 25, 1887, and in book form in the first Indian edition of ""Plain Tales from the Hills"" in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. It is one of the short stories that Tompkins classifies as a tale of 'revenge', but it has elements of those classified as 'farce'. Henry Augustus Ramsay Faizanne, ""for the sake of brevity"" called 'The Worm', is a subaltern newly arrived in India.to join the Second Shikarris (a fictional regiment in India). His brother junior"
"year, and printed as part of the Barrack-Room Ballads shortly thereafter. It is generally read as being set in India, though it gives no details of the actual situation. Some research has suggested that the poem was written with a specific incident in mind, the execution of one Private Flaxman of The Leicestershire Regiment, at Lucknow in 1887. A number of details of this execution correspond to the occasion described by Kipling in the poem, and he later used a story similar to that of Flaxman's as a basis for the story ""Black Jack"". Kipling apparently wrote the various Barrack-Room"
"of the City of Mahagonny"". Mandalay (poem) ""Mandalay"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written and published in 1890, and first collected in ""Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses"" in 1892. The poem is set in colonial Burma, then part of British India. The protagonist is a Cockney working-class soldier, back in grey restrictive London, recalling the time he felt free and had a Burmese girlfriend, now unattainably far away. The poem became well known, especially after it was set to music by Oley Speaks in 1907, and was admired by Kipling's contemporaries, though some of them objected to its muddled"
"Troopers"" when the Mobile Infantry hangs Dillinger for murder while the main character is in basic training. Danny Deever ""Danny Deever"" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution is viewed by his regiment, paraded to watch it, and the poem is composed of the comments they exchange as they see him hanged. The"
"The Betrothed (poem) ""The Betrothed"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first published in book form in ""Departmental Ditties"" (1886). 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"""". The poem simply has a narrator musing on the difference between his fiancée Maggie and his habit of smoking cigars: He weighs up Maggie's looks, and what she will be at fifty; the limitations of monogamy against ""a harem"
"is usually on display in Tate Britain, London, in room 1840. ""The Lady of Shalott"" is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works, an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting of a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower near King Arthur's Camelot. Waterhouse painted three different versions of this character, in 1888, 1894 and 1915. The painting has the precisely painted"
"from undisclosed causes. His widow died in 1976. They are interred in St Andrew's Churchyard, Wimpole. George Bambridge George Louis St Clair Bambridge (27 September 1892 – 16 December 1943) was a British diplomat. His wife, Elsie (née Kipling), was the daughter of the author Rudyard Kipling. George Louis St Clair Bambridge was born in 1892 to George Frederick Bambridge and Ada Henrietta (née Baddeley). George Frederick Bambridge was the private secretary of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the son of photography pioneer William Bambridge; his mother was the daughter of Major John Fraser Loddington Baddeley, an officer"
"of dusky beauties""; and the relatively unknown woman against the tried and tested ""Counsellors"" and ""comforters"". His conclusion is: The Betrothed (poem) ""The Betrothed"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first published in book form in ""Departmental Ditties"" (1886). 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"""". The poem simply has a narrator musing on the difference between his fiancée Maggie and his habit of smoking cigars:"
"Wallis Simpson Wallis Simpson (born Bessie Wallis Warfield; 19 June 1896 – 24 April 1986), later known as the Duchess of Windsor, was an American socialite whose intended marriage to the British king Edward VIII caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication. Wallis grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father died shortly after her birth and she and her widowed mother were partly supported by their wealthier relatives. Her first marriage, to U.S. naval officer Win Spencer, was punctuated by periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce. In 1931, during her second marriage, to Ernest Simpson, she"
"Fuzzy-Wuzzy ""Fuzzy-Wuzzy"" is a poem by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892 as part of ""Barrack Room Ballads"". It describes the respect of the ordinary British soldier for the bravery of the Hadendoa warriors who fought the British army in the Sudan and Eritrea. ""Fuzzy-Wuzzy"" was the term used by British colonial soldiers for the nineteenth-century Beja warriors supporting the Sudanese Mahdi in the Mahdist War. The term Fuzzy Wuzzy is purely of English origin and is not connected with Arabic. The Beja are not Arabic speakers: their language, Tu Bedawi, is of Cushitic origin and"
"attempting to regain control of Lower Burma from the British forces that had held it since 1824. The result was a British invasion that immediately sent Thibaw and Supayalat into exile in India. So, to the soldier in Kipling's poem, his and her names are familiar, as the last and very recent royalty of a British colony. Rudyard Kipling's poem ""Mandalay"" was written between March and April 1890, when the British poet was 24 years old. He had arrived in England in October the previous year, after seven years in India. He had taken an eastward route home, travelling by"
"a traditional driving rhythm. Such echoes are to be heard throughout the poem: there is a couplet that is repeated with slight variations several times: T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". The Ballad of East and West ""The Ballad of East and West"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier (then on the boundary of the British Raj, nowadays in Pakistan), steals the British Colonel's prize mare. The Colonel's son,"
"Lady Byron Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (""née"" Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was the wife of poet George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron. A highly educated and strictly religious woman, she seemed an unlikely match for the amoral and agnostic poet, and their marriage soon ended in acrimony. Lady Byron’s reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears about an alleged incest Lord Byron had with his half-sister. The scandal about Lady Byron's suspicions accelerated Byron's"
"T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". Tommy (Kipling poem) ""Tommy"" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 ""Barrack-Room Ballads"". The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war. The Tommy of the poem is Tommy Atkins, a generic slang name for a common British soldier. A term of uncertain origin, the name ""Thomas Atkins"" was"
"her wedding, feels free. Similar to the old custom of ""damnatio memoriae"" in the Roman Empire, she destroys all of Edward's photographs and all of his letters to her. Mrs Craddock Mrs Craddock is a novel by William Somerset Maugham first published in 1902. Set in the final years of the 19th century, ""Mrs Craddock"" is about a young and attractive woman of independent means who marries beneath her. As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the time, Maugham had some difficulty finding a publisher. Completed in 1900, the novel was eventually published in 1902"
"'ballad-writer', and that was already, he thought, more difficult in 1941 than in Kipling's time, as people no longer had the music hall to inspire them. Eliot thought Kipling's ballads unusual, also, in that Kipling had been careful to make it possible to absorb each ballad's message on a single hearing. But, wrote Eliot, Kipling had more to offer than that: he had ""a consummate gift of word, phrase, and rhythm"", never repeated himself, and used short, simple stanzas and rhyming schemes. What is more Barrack-Room Ballads The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling,"
"some of which were later set to music by Schubert. Later important examples of the poetic form included Rudyard Kipling's ""Barrack-Room Ballads"" (1892-6) and Oscar Wilde's ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"" (1897). Victorian poet Christina Rossetti used ballad forms to explore spiritual and moral issues and to discuss the stereotypical treatment and representation of men and women's roles in society. In the 18th century ballad operas developed as a form of English stage entertainment, partly in opposition to the Italian domination of the London operatic scene. It consisted of racy and often satirical spoken (English) dialogue, interspersed with songs that"
"the Colonel's wife. She attacks the Colonel, being wholly convinced of Original Sin - and begins to realise the harm and pain that unfounded suspicion can cause - and has caused her victims. That is really the moral of the story. ""The mistrust and the tragedy of it,"" says Kipling, ""are killing the Colonel's Wife, and are making the Colonel wretched. Watches of the Night ""Watches of the Night"" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the ""Civil and Military Gazette"" on March 25, 1887; in book form, first in the first Indian edition of"
"of the world. In 2018, students at the University of Manchester cited such Eurocentic racism as a reason for having replaced Rudyard Kipling's 19th-century poem ""If—"" (1895) with the 20th-century poem ""Still I Rise"" (1978), by Maya Angelou. The poem of ""The White Man's Burden"", by Rudyard Kipling, was first published in ""The New York Sun"", on 10 February 1899. Three days earlier, on 7 February 1899, in the course of senatorial debate to decide (Joint Resolution S.R. 210 ) if the U.S. should retain control of the Philippine islands and the ten million Filipinos conquered from Imperial Spain, Senator"