‘Let us now praise famous men’ 86
   Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these 12
   Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream 59
   Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned 182
   Me that ’ave been what I’ve been 113
   Much I owe to the Lands that grew 90
   My girl she give me the go onest 20
   My name, my speech, my self I had forgot 169
   My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I 168
   No doubt but ye are the People – your throne is above the King’s 95
   Nothing in life has been made by man for man’s using 187
   Now the New Year reviving old desires 42
   Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky 51
   On land and sea I strove with anxious care 171
   On the first hour of my first day 171
   Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid 163
   Once on a time, the ancient legends tell 185
   One used and butchered me: another spied 174
   Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout 13
   Or ever the battered liners sank 183
   Our England is a garden that is full of stately views 147
   Pity not! The Army gave 169
   Prometheus brought down fire to men 171
   Prophets have honour all over the earth 121
   Pussy can sit by the fire and sing 101
   Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. (Stand forward partners all!) 132
   Smells are surer than sounds or sights 116
   Soldier, soldier come from the wars 22
   Sudden the desert changes 91
   Take of English earth as much 129
   Take up the White Man’s burden 82
   That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend 191
   The beasts are very wise 38
   The blown sand heaps on me, that none may learn 170
   The boats of Newhaven and Folkstone and Dover 146
   The Camel’s hump is an ugly lump 99
   The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo 127
   The ’eathen in ’is blindness bows down to wood an’ stone 70
   The eldest son bestrides him 2
   The Garden called Gethsemane 163
   The General ’eard the firin’ on the flank 117
   The Gods that are wiser than Learning 189
   The Injian Ocean sets an’ smiles 49
   The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time 67
   The merry clerks of Oxenford they stretch themselves at ease 178
   The road to En-Dor is easy to tread 161
   The ships destroy us above 150
   The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part 123
   The stream is shrunk – the pool is dry 69
   There is sorrow enough in the natural way 126
   They bear, in place of classic names 151
   They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young 154
   They shut the road through the woods 133
   This is the midnight – let no star 196
   This man in his own country prayed we know not to what Powers 169
   Though all the Dead were all forgot 189
   Thus said the Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim 47
   Too late, alas! the song 6
   Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew 142
   Unless you come of the gipsy stock 184
   Walpole talks of ‘a man and his price’ 5
   We are very slightly changed 1
   We counterfeited once for your disport 175
   We, giving all, gained all 170
   We have served our day 175
   We know the Rocket’s upward whizz 197
   We were all one heart and one race 139
   We were together since the War began 168
   We’ve sent our little Cupids all ashore 105
   ‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade 17
   ‘What have we ever done to bear this grudge?’ 7
   What is a woman that you forsake her 119
   What is the moral? Who rides may read 16
   When all the world would keep a matter hid 158
   When Earth’s last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried 44
   When I left Rome for Lalage’s sake 120
   When ’Omer smote ’is bloomin’ lyre 76
   When the ’arf-made recruity goes out to the East 29
   When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold 31
   When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride 140
   When you come to London Town 181
   When you’ve shouted ‘Rule Britannia,’ when you’ve sung ‘God Save the Queen’ 88
   Where have you been this while away 40
   Where’s the lamp that Hero lit 125
   Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order 111
   Why gird at Lollius if he care 180
   Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro 35
   You may talk o’ gin and beer 25
   Your jar of Virginny 135
   Youth that trafficked long with Death 195   
    
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