"On the Road to Mandalay (song) On the Road to Mandalay is a song by Oley Speaks (1874–1948) with text by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Oley Speaks set to music a portion of Kipling's poem, ""Mandalay"", 1890, 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. He describes his romance with a ""Burma girl"" and speaks of the emotional pull he experiences to return"
"A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War, titled ""Service Songs"" and published in ""The Five Nations"" (1903), can be considered part of the Ballads, as can a number of other uncollected pieces. While two volumes of Kipling's poems are clearly labelled as ""Barrack-Room Ballads"", identifying which poems should be grouped in this way can be complex. The main collection of the Ballads was published in the 1890s, in two volumes: ""Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses"" (1892, the first major publishing success for Methuen) and ""The Seven Seas"" (1896), sometimes published as ""The Seven Seas and Further"
"The poem was published as one of the set of martial poems called the ""Barrack-Room Ballads"". In contrast to Kipling's later poem ""The White Man's Burden"", ""Gunga Din"" () is named after the Indian, portraying him as a heroic character who is not afraid to face danger on the battlefield as he tends to wounded men. The English soldiers who order Din around and beat him for not bringing them water fast enough are presented as being callous and shallow, and ultimately inferior to him. Although ""Din"" is frequently pronounced to rhyme with ""pin"", the rhymes within the poem make"
"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"","
"Budry wrote new French words to the same chorus, creating the Easter hymn "" À toi la gloire, O Ressuscité!"", which was later translated into English as ""Thine Be the Glory"". ""See, the Conqu’ring Hero Comes!"" also gained familiarity as the tune invariably played by brass bands at the opening of new railway lines and stations in Britain during the 19th century, and it was adopted as a movement in Sir Henry Wood's ""Fantasia on British Sea Songs"", played at the BBC Proms. ""Come, ever smiling Liberty, / And with thee bring thy jocund train"" is sung by Maria, the"
"varied date and order. The show's ending theme contained the chorus: Let's go a-roving, a-roving across the ocean<br> Oh, let's go a-roving and join the buccaneers!<br> We'll find adventure, adventure across the ocean<br> Oh, we'll find adventure and join the buccaneers! Sea shanties and traditional songs were incorporated into the show. Early episodes begin with sailors singing ""Blow, Ye Winds, in the Morning,"" an anachronistic American whaling song. The second episode, ""The Raiders,"" is the only episode to use ""The Maid of Amsterdam"" as its ending theme. Other songs performed in the show include: Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete"
"The Great Wall Ballad ""The Great Wall Ballad"" () is a Chinese patriotic song written in 1937 by Pao Maonong and Lu Xueyu after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The song became extremely popular among both the Communist and Nationalist Chinese, and quickly rose to prominence among the Chinese Diaspora. Today, the Great Wall Ballad is one of the most popular Chinese patriotic songs in both Taiwan and Mainland China, largely due to its apolitical lyrics and folk-style melody. The song has been adapted numerous times across its history, and is sometimes seen as the de facto anthem of 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"
"in the last two verses, first the traditional ballad ""The Cuckoo"" with the line: ""The cuckoo is a pretty bird She warbles as she flies."" Robert Johnson's ""Dust My Broom"" with the line: ""I'm getting up in the morning I believe I'll dust my broom."" Charlie Pattons "" Shake it and break it"" with the line: ""You can shake it, you can break it, you can hang it on the wall."" Bob's amended version of this line is ""Bertha Mason shook it – broke it, then she hung it on a wall."" Attwood also notes that the song both musically"
"Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"". The 1855 edition is particularly notable for the inclusion of the two poems ""Song of Myself"" and ""The Sleepers"". The 1856 edition included the notable Whitman poem ""Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"". In the 1860 edition, Whitman further added the major poems ""A Word Out of the Sea"" and ""As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life"". The specific interpretation of many of Whitman's major poems may be found in the articles associated with those individual poems. Particularly in ""Song of Myself"", Whitman emphasized an all-powerful ""I"" who serves as narrator. The ""I"" tries to relieve"
"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,"
"The Last of the Light Brigade ""The Last of the Light Brigade"" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"". Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently"
"the exotic and what anthropologists and historians call 'colonial desire'."" Jack noted that Kipling's contemporaries objected not to these issues but to Kipling's distortions of geography, the Bay of Bengal being to Burma's west not east, so that China was not across the Bay. According to Selth, ""Mandalay"" had a significant impact on popular Western perception of Burma and the far East. It was well known in Britain, America and the English-speaking colonies of the British Empire. The poem was widely adapted and imitated in verse and in music, and the musical settings appeared in several films. The ballad style"
"most well-known poems are ""Changsha"" (1925), ""The Double Ninth"" (1929.10), ""Loushan Pass"" (1935), ""The Long March"" (1935), ""Snow"" (1936.02), ""The PLA Captures Nanjing"" (1949.04), ""Reply to Li Shuyi"" (1957.05.11), and ""Ode to the Plum Blossom"" (1961.12). Informal Translation: Changsha In the (rhyme) pattern of ""Qinyuanchun"" <poem> Alone I stand in the autumn cold On the tip of Orange Island, The Xiang flowing northward; I see a thousand hills crimsoned through By their serried woods deep-dyed, And a hundred barges vying Over crystal blue waters. Eagles cleave the air, Fish glide under the shallow water; Under freezing skies a million creatures"
"of the stanzas shares the same one verse refrain ""An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing"". The symbolism of the lyrics makes repeat use of a dual metaphor of freedom represented by the chimes or tolling of a bell on the one hand, and the enlightenment associated with freedom represented by thunder and lightning. The lyrics are located symbolically in the darkness after sunset (after ""sundown"") up until ""midnight's"" tolling of the chimes on the same evening. The initial verses of the song describe a fierce and unforgiving storm giving way at the end of the song to"
"Like China ""Like China"" is a song written and performed by English drummer Phil Collins from his second solo album ""Hello, I Must Be Going!"". The song, produced by Collins and Hugh Padgham was released as the seventh and final single released from the album. The song, the third track on the album, takes a cheerful rock music tone. It opens with Collins singing with a British Cockney accent. The song takes an upbeat tempo and features a discordant guitar introduction, as well as a guitar solo by Daryl Stuermer midway through the song. The song's title is a traditional"
"overlap between the intellectual and the ordinary man."" The Barrack-Room Ballads, as the name suggests, are songs of soldiers. Written by Kipling, they share a form and a style with traditional Army songs. Kipling was one of the first to pay attention to these works; Charles Carrington noted that in contrast to the songs of sailors, ""no-one had thought of collecting genuine soldiers' songs, and when Kipling wrote in this traditional style it was not recognised as traditional"". Kipling himself was fond of singing his poetry, of writing it to fit the rhythm of a particular tune. In this specific"
"the dogs do bark, My wife is coming in, With rogues and jades and roaring blades, They make a devilish din. </poem> When discussing a different song in his ""English Minstrelsie"" (1895), Sabine Baring-Gould touches upon the 1672 lyric and notes its similarity with the nursery rhyme. However, he states that the nursery rhyme is the later of the two, describing it as a ""Jacobite jingle"" that arose in the years after the House of Hanover gained the English throne in 1714. But Baring-Gould also notes the similarity of the opening line to one used by Shakespeare in ""The Tempest""—""Hark,"
"'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,"
"charabanc outing to Porthcawl. Within the story the charabanc is referred to as a 'chara' in colloquial Welsh English. ""Cider with Rosie"" by Laurie Lee features a 1917 charabanc outing from rural Gloucestershire to Weston-super-Mare. Vince Hill's ""A Day at the Seaside"" begins with the line ""Climb up little darling, into the charabanc"". The song, written by Les Vandyke, came fifth in the 1963 Song for Europe competition. A char-a-banc also figures prominently in Rudyard Kipling's short story ""The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat"" (1913). Char-a-bancs are mentioned in Dorothy Edwards' book ""The Witches and the Grinnygog"" in"
"first appeared in the ""Scots Observer"" on 21 June 1890. It was first collected into a book in ""Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses"" in 1892. It subsequently appeared in several collections of Kipling's verse, including ""Early Verse"" in 1900, ""Inclusive Verse"" in 1919, and ""Definitive Verse"" in 1940. It appears also in the 1936 ""A Kipling Pageant"", and T. S. Eliot's 1941 ""A Choice of Kipling’s Verse"". The poem has the rhyming scheme AABB traditional for ballad verse. However, Kipling begins the poem with the ""stunningly memorable"" AABBBBBBBB, the A being ""sea - me"", and the B including ""say -"
"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"
"and she just looked tired, tired, tired. I LOOK LIKE THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER <poem> Verse: Henry Blaum vas introduced to me Ven I joost came here from Germany. He vas fat an' foolish in der looks. But he made love like dem fellows in der books. Vee got married and I tell you what! In my heart I vish dot vee vas not! Love! Dot's nice! But take it right from me, Marriage ain't vot it's crackled up to be! Chorus: From six in the morning till the sun goes down I push and push this t'ing around'."
"in tears and some of our hearts were too big for utterance. The gift of tongues come upon us also like the rushing of a mighty wind and my soul was filled with the glory of God. The first words come from ""The American Star"" which begins, ""The spirits of Washington, Warren, Montgomery"" and ""then goes on to praise these heroes of the Revolution who yet watch over nineteenth-century patriots."" The chorus is sung as above after each stanza. However the first line becomes ""We'll sing and we'll shout with ""His"" armies of heaven"" for the last chorus in the"
"diplomat, John Barrow, noted that the tune seems to be one of the most popular songs in China. The song became one of the first Chinese folk songs to become widely known outside China. In 1896 the song was used as temporary national anthem by the Qing Chinese officials in Europe. The melody has become well known among Western listeners as it was used by Giacomo Puccini in his opera Turandot (1926), where it is associated with 'Turandot's splendor'. It appeared in a 1934 Hollywood movie ""The Good Earth"" (based on a novel by Pearl Buck). It has been adapted"
"Barrack-Room Ballads"". In both books, they were collected into a specific section set aside from the other poems, and can be easily identified. (""Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses"" has an introductory poem (""To T.A."") in Kipling's own voice, which is strictly not part of the set but is often collected with them.) A third group of poems, published in 1903 in ""The Five Nations"", continued the theme of military vernacular ballads; while they were titled ""Service Songs"", they fit well with the themes of the earlier ballads and are clearly connected. Charles Carrington produced the first comprehensive volume of the"
"lines, in rhyming couplets, typically with six stresses per line. The metre is in large part an irregular mixture of iambuses (.-) and anapaests (..-). American-born British poet T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". He thought that it belonged with another dramatic monologue, ""McAndrew's Hymn"" (1893). He saw both as owing something of a debt to Robert Browning, and as being ""metrically and intrinsically ballads"". He shared the popular verdict that ""McAndrew's Hymn"" is the more memorable, but did not find it easy to say why. He found both poems equally"
"late T'ang"", translated by A.C. Graham). Among the borrowed lines from Chinese poetry (as translated by Graham) were those written by Li He, whose poem ""Don't Go Out of the Door"" contains the line """"Witness the man who raved at the wall as he wrote his questions to Heaven"""", Li Shangyin, whose poetry contained the lines """"watch little by little the night turns around"""", ""countless the twigs which tremble in dawn"" and ""one inch of love is one inch of ashes"", and Du Mu, whose poetry contained the line """"Lotuses lean on each other in yearning"""" (多少綠荷相倚恨). In a negative"
"Indian for ""The Great Mother"", as an Indian soldier for ""India's Reply"", and ""How India Kept Her Word"" (1898). Even America did not escape, with ""America Looking On"", about the Boer War. These examples of colonial fealty were well received by British audiences, and were parodied in Rudyard Kipling's ""Barrack-Room Ballads"". He also was known for tear-jerking ballads such as ""Don't Go Down the Mine, Dad"" (1910), possibly inspired by the great 1907 mining disaster at St. Genard in South Wales, and ""Good-bye, Mary!"" (1911). At the start of World War I, he returned to patriotic songs with ""Call Us"
"The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee ""The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee"" is an 1840 hymn written by Latter Day Saint apostle Parley P. Pratt. The lyrics to the hymn were first published in May 1840 as a poem on the outside cover of the inaugural issue of the ""Millennial Star"", a periodical of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints published in England. When the church published its Manchester Hymnal later that year, ""The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee"" was the first hymn in the work. Since the Manchester Hymnal was published, the song has often been"
"<poem>[Chorus:] Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, Onward! the sailors cry; Carry the lad that's born to be King Over the sea to Skye. Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar, Thunderclaps rend the air; Baffled, our foes stand by the shore, Follow they will not dare. [Chorus] Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep, Ocean's a royal bed. Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep Watch by your weary head. [Chorus] Many’s the lad, fought in that day Well the claymore did wield; When the night came, silently lay Dead on Cullodens field. [Chorus]"
"poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". The Bell Buoy ""The Bell Buoy"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published with illustrations in ""Saturday Review"", Christmas Supplement 1896 and then published in McClure's Magazine in February 1897 as ""The Bell-Buoy"", with illustrations by Oliver Herford. It was also included in the 1903 collection ""The Five Nations"". Some changes to the wording occurred sometime between the edition in McClure's and when it was collected in ""Rudyard Kipling's verse: inclusive edition, 1885-1918"" (1919) as ""The Bell Buoy"". The other changes are minor and some may be"
"return to far away Jiangling within a single day! From both banks, the steady sound of shrieking monkeys fills the air. Our little boat has already carried me past thousands of hilltops. Another version of translation: Leaving at dawn the White Emperor crowned with cloud, I've sailed a thousand li through canyons in a day. With the monkeys' adieus the riverbanks are loud, My skiff has left ten thousand mountains far away. John C. H. Wu (75) has another version of the translation of the third line, which goes: (before the boat had already brought the poet back from exile)."