Potential Titles: Rudyard Kipling

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Where the pheasant rules the nooning - Rudyard Kipling "Alnaschar and the Oxen"

Delivered from the shadows I pursue - Rudyard Kipling "Alnaschar and the Oxen"

Gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place - Rudyard Kipling "Banquet Night"

Hide from your neighbours as much as you please - Rudyard Kipling "The Bee Boy's Song"

Or else we will give you no honey to sell - Rudyard Kipling "The Bee Boy's Song"

With long arrears to make good - Rudyard Kipling "The Beginnings"

When Time shall count from the date - Rudyard Kipling "The Beginnings"

Through timeless arrogance of use - Rudyard Kipling "The Birthright"

Crowned by all Time, all Art, all Might - Rudyard Kipling "A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406)"

Strong heart with triple armour bound - Rudyard Kipling "A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406)"

Never say I didn't give you warning - Rudyard Kipling "Brother Square-Toes: Philadelphia"

A single tree that breaks her heart in the cold - Rudyard Kipling "A Carol"

Crazed and little worth excepting as to burn - Rudyard Kipling "A Carol"

Which shall befriend our latter end - Rudyard Kipling "A Carol"

The hour of watching and envy - Rudyard Kipling "The Centaurs"

Cities and Thrones and Powers stand in Time's eye - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

What change, what chance, what chill - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

With bold countenance and knowledge small - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

Esteems her seven days' continuance to be perpetual - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

Had us in charge for a thousand days - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"

Saw more than the nights could hide - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"

As either hand may rightly clutch - Rudyard Kipling "A Charm"

My companions going forth by night - Rudyard Kipling "Chil's Song"

We have only the memory left - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"

The price of our loss shall be paid to our hands - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"

Those hours which we had not made good - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"

Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"

Assailed by the malice of Heaven - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"

The heart-shaking jests of Decay - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"

Our love and toil in the years to be - Rudyard Kipling "The Children's Song"

With steadfastness and careful truth - Rudyard Kipling "The Children's Song"
And Mirth that has no bitter springs - Rudyard Kipling "The Children's Song"

Forgiveness free of evil done - Rudyard Kipling "The Children's Song"

Our brows are bound with spindrift - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights"

And bid the helmsman have a care - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights"

We bridge across the dark - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights"

From our vexed eyries, head to gale - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights"

Swift shuttles of an Empire's loom - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights of England"

Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade - Rudyard Kipling "Cold Iron"

Wounds are for the desperate, blows are for the strong - Rudyard Kipling "Cold Iron"

Balm and oil for weary hearts all cut and bruised with wrong - Rudyard Kipling "Cold Iron"

No anodyne for pain except the shock of it - Rudyard Kipling "The Comforters"

Doubled the joys that I know - Rudyard Kipling "Darzee's Chant"

Praise him with nightingale words - Rudyard Kipling "Darzee's Chant"

No echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep - Rudyard Kipling "The Deep-Sea Cables"

Troubles the Still that has neither voice nor feet - Rudyard Kipling "The Deep-Sea Cables"

Have wakened the timeless Things - Rudyard Kipling "The Deep-Sea Cables"

While the Stars in their courses do fight on our side - Rudyard Kipling "A Doctor of Medicine: An Astrologer's Song"

Receive and inherit their strength from the same - Rudyard Kipling "A Doctor of Medicine: An Astrologer's Song"

Through abysses unproven, and gulfs beyond thought - Rudyard Kipling "A Doctor of Medicine: An Astrologer's Song"

Slower to bless than to ban - Rudyard Kipling "England's Answer"

Stronger than life our tether - Rudyard Kipling "England's Answer"

That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall - Rudyard Kipling "England's Answer"

The threefold knot firm on the ninefold bands - Rudyard Kipling "England's Answer"

Stand to your work and be wise - Rudyard Kipling "England's Answer"

Jesting at that which none will name aloud - Rudyard Kipling "The Fabulists"

To work confusion upon all we have - Rudyard Kipling "The Fabulists"

Even in that certain hour before the fall - Rudyard Kipling "The Fabulists"

The lock that lay upon our lips - Rudyard Kipling "The Fabulists"

Hears the careless foot of man - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

May not deal in doubt or pity - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

The waters shall not reckon twice - Rudyard Kipling "The Floods"

You'd better ask the cold North Sea - Rudyard Kipling "Frankie's Trade"

Without capsizing Earth and her waters - Rudyard Kipling "Frankie's Trade"

Had set it down untouched before them - Rudyard Kipling "Gloriana: The Two Cousins"

To ask what prize should crown their task - Rudyard Kipling "Gloriana: The Two Cousins"

Raw airs uncloven by speech - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

When night was a new thing - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

Their present all their future and their past - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

There's nothing Nineveh Town can give - Rudyard Kipling "Hal o' the Draft"

Nor being swallowed by whales between - Rudyard Kipling "Hal o' the Draft"

To go with the old grey Widow-maker - Rudyard Kipling "Harp Song of the Dane Women"

One chill bed for all to rest in - Rudyard Kipling "Harp Song of the Dane Women"

The ten-times-fingering weed to hold you - Rudyard Kipling "Harp Song of the Dane Women"

Drive out where the storm-clouds swallow - Rudyard Kipling "Harp Song of the Dane Women"

There was darkness under Heaven for an hour's space - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

That we knew was given us for special grace - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"
Sun and moon and stars were hid - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

Because our fate damned us ere our birth - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

Amid fear no dreams have known - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

We stole out of Limbo Gate looking for the Earth - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

When the Horror passing speech hunted us along - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

In the teeth of things forbid and Reason overthrown - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

Our linked desired dragged us up to day - Rudyard Kipling "Helen All Alone"

Feet in the jungle that leave no mark - Rudyard Kipling "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack"

But make allowance for their doubting too - Rudyard Kipling "If--"

And not make dreams your master - Rudyard Kipling "If--"

And treat those two imposters just the same - Rudyard Kipling "If--"

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools - Rudyard Kipling "If--"

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance - Rudyard Kipling "If--"

Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"

Neither Candle, Bell nor Book to curse my brethren by - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"

Parrots very busy in the trellist pepper-vine - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"

A desert stretched and stricken, left and right - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"

Where the piled mirages thicken under white-hot light - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"

Neither rule nor calliper to judge the matter by - Rudyard Kipling "Jobson's Amen"

When Rome was sunk to a name - Rudyard Kipling "The King's Task"

Bitter to cross in their mood - Rudyard Kipling "The King's Task"

Bedded the plinth of the days to come - Rudyard Kipling "The King's Task"

They were once and they are still - Rudyard Kipling "The Knife and the Naked Chalk: The Run of the Downs"

Go back as far as the sums'll carry - Rudyard Kipling "The Knife and the Naked Chalk: The Run of the Downs"

Faithful fragments iron-hard in iron clay - Rudyard Kipling "The Land"

With title-deeds, attested, signed and sealed - Rudyard Kipling "The Land"

Their names went down in Domesday Book - Rudyard Kipling "The Land"

His forerunners who were not regarded - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Receiving the wound and the venom in one - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Made treaty with Time to stand still - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

As old and as true as the sky - Rudyard Kipling "The Law of the Jungle"

Remember the night is for hunting - Rudyard Kipling "The Law of the Jungle"

And mock not the Boar in his lair - Rudyard Kipling "The Law of the Jungle"

When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle - Rudyard Kipling "The Law of the Jungle"

Lest others take part in the quarrel - Rudyard Kipling "The Law of the Jungle"

And none may refuse him the same - Rudyard Kipling "The Law of the Jungle"

Their own high judgment on their lightest deed - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

Urged them unwearied to fresh toil - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

Systems and Universes overpast - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

Guiding and guarding with devoted mind - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

To which neither grace nor gain accrue - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

In utter mirth forgot both zeal and pride - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

Reeling a planet's orbit left or right - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

And e'en Gehenna's bondsmen understood - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

Truth, rising from the bottom of her well - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Facts beyond precedent and parallel - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Lie down for an aeon or two - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

Splash at a ten-league canvas - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

With brushes of comet's hair - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

And only the Master shall blame - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

Backwards and forwards and sideways did she pass - Rudyard Kipling "The Looking-Glass"

To face the cruel looking-glass - Rudyard Kipling "The Looking-Glass"

Midnight dances that churned the sea to flame - Rudyard Kipling "Lukannon"

In legions that darkened all the shore - Rudyard Kipling "Lukannon"

Where the otter whistles to his mate - Rudyard Kipling "Marklake Witches: The Way Through the Woods"

And the snake shall be your watchman - Rudyard Kipling "Mowgli's Song Against People"

I will reap your fields before you - Rudyard Kipling "Mowgli's Song Against People"

Empty upon the earth from unsuspected ambuscade - Rudyard Kipling "The Necessitarian"

The Jest beheld with streaming eyes - Rudyard Kipling "The Necessitarian"

Who joins the flats of Time and Chance - Rudyard Kipling "The Necessitarian"

Laughter, voiceless through excess - Rudyard Kipling "The Necessitarian"

Our yoke of slow conspiring stars - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers Also"

The ancient Front of Things unbroke - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers Also"

Excellent herbs to ease their pain - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

Anything green that grew out of the mould - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

Wonderful talks of the herbs and the stars - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

The Sun was Lord of the Marigold - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

Basil and Rocket belonged to Mars - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

Every plant had a star bespoke - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

Who but Venus should govern the Rose? - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

Most of their teaching was quite untrue - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

And neither planet nor herb assuaged - Rudyard Kipling "Our Fathers of Old"

By the Broken Lock that freed - Rudyard Kipling "The Outsong: Bagheera"

Feed them silence when they seek - Rudyard Kipling "The Outsong: Bagheera"

Anger is the egg of Fear - Rudyard Kipling "The Outsong: Kaa"

Cobra-poison none may leech - Rudyard Kipling "The Outsong: Kaa"

We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules - Rudyard Kipling "Parade Song of the Camp Animals: Elephants of the Gun Teams"

The path was lost in rolling stones - Rudyard Kipling "Parade Song of the Camp Animals: Screw-Gun Mules"

Rome never looks where she treads - Rudyard Kipling "A Pict Song"

With only our tongues for our swords - Rudyard Kipling "A Pict Song"

How we can drag down the Great - Rudyard Kipling "A Pict Song"

We are not strong, but we know People that are - Rudyard Kipling "A Pict Song"

And then we shall dance on your graves - Rudyard Kipling "A Pict Song"

At easy-cheated altars win oblivion for the fault - Rudyard Kipling "Poseidon's Law"

Unless ye owe the Fates a jest - Rudyard Kipling "Poseidon's Law"

When we are certain of sorrow in store - Rudyard Kipling "The Power of the Dog" [To Your Dog and to My Dog. PG. 1916]

Our loves are not given, but only lent - Rudyard Kipling "The Power of the Dog" [To Your Dog and to My Dog. PG. 1916]

The morning calm that follows the midnight stress - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"

Sold his heart to the old Black Art - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"

Remember the battle and stand aside - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"

While Thrones and Powers confess - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"

King over all the children of pride - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"

To wander there with all the world between - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"

How far is St Helena from a fight in Paris street? - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"

South across the water underneath a setting star - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"

What you cannot finish you must leave undone - Rudyard Kipling "A Priest in Spite of Himself: A St Helena Lullaby"

The windy levels spread about the gates of Rye - Rudyard Kipling "Puck's Song"

For his tongue that shamed their swords - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"

Which regards not taint or fall - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"

Will restore the world her yesterday - Rudyard Kipling "Rebirth"

To wipe from mind the memory of this ill - Rudyard Kipling "Rebirth"

So broke to book and the strict work of war - Rudyard Kipling "Rebirth"

So long subdued to sacrifice - Rudyard Kipling "Rebirth"

That threadbare Death commands - Rudyard Kipling "Rebirth"

Neither the harps nor the crowns amused - Rudyard Kipling "The Return of the Children"

Begging what Princes and Powers refused - Rudyard Kipling "The Return of the Children"

Came to land in the golden sunset burning - Rudyard Kipling "A Ripple Song"

Half-way up to the jealous moon - Rudyard Kipling "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log"

Dreaming of deeds that we meant to do - Rudyard Kipling "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log"

Little drums beating in the bazaars - Rudyard Kipling "The Runners"

Sitting at the doorways of a day long ago - Rudyard Kipling "Shiv and the Grasshopper"

To each his portion, food and toil and fate - Rudyard Kipling "Shiv and the Grasshopper"

Wicked wolves without the wall at night - Rudyard Kipling "Shiv and the Grasshopper"

Call for silver and gold in their dealings - Rudyard Kipling "Simple Simon: The Thousandth Man"

But now this game is the other way over - Rudyard Kipling "Sir Richard's Song"

Tell them their way is not my way - Rudyard Kipling "Sir Richard's Song"

My Comrades in camp and highway - Rudyard Kipling "Sir Richard's Song"

Hear me a little before I am blamed - Rudyard Kipling "Sir Richard's Song"

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie - Rudyard Kipling "A Smugglers' Song"

Knocks and footsteps round the house - Rudyard Kipling "A Smugglers' Song"

They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by - Rudyard Kipling "A Smugglers' Song"

The world that he weighed in his hands - Rudyard Kipling "A Song of Kabir"

The Red Mist of Doing has thinned to a cloud - Rudyard Kipling "A Song of Kabir"

Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of Seven Cities"

And garrisoned with Amazons invincible - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of Seven Cities"

Evened with Atlantis and the towns before the Flood - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of Seven Cities"

Seven, set on rocks, above the wrath of any flood - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of Seven Cities"

On us the unswerving season smiles - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Auckland"

A thousand mills roar through me - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Bombay"

I cleansed those infamies - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Hobart"

Nor fear nor favour won us place - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Melbourne"

Loud-voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Melbourne"

Half in jest, half in hate - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Quebec and Montreal"

Now wake we and remember - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Quebec and Montreal"

Second doorway of the wide world's trade - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Cities: Singapore"

Waiting, by the trails that we lost - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Dead"

Through the dust of the sere river-courses - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Dead"

We yearned beyond the sky-line - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Dead"

The sky-line where the strange roads go down - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Dead"

We have fed our sea for a thousand years - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Dead"

For that is our doom and pride - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Dead"

And be fearful in your mirth - Rudyard Kipling "A Song of the English"

A song of broken interludes - Rudyard Kipling "A Song of the English"

Swoops down a furlong sheer - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Little Hunter"

Ere the moon has climbed the mountain - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Little Hunter"

Ere the rocks are ribbed with light - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Little Hunter"

When the heat-cloud sucks the tempest - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Little Hunter"

Through the war-gongs of the thunder - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Little Hunter"

Room for his shadow on the grass - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Men's Side"

Tell it to the Barrows of the Dead- Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Men's Side"

Shall own the odds and come to heel - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Old Guard"

Till Armageddon break our sleep - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Old Guard"

In all disaster of shipwreck, storm, or sword - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Red War-Boat"

Heavy odd have we taken, but never before such odds - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Red War-Boat"

There goes Thor's Own Hammer cracking the dark in two - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Red War-Boat"

For wager, warfare, or plunder - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Red War-Boat"

This work is none of our wishing - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Red War-Boat"

Loaning our hearts for a bribe - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of the Sons"

Now as the names are answered - Rudyard Kipling "A Song to Mithras"

Mithras, also a soldier, keep us true to our vows - Rudyard Kipling "A Song to Mithras"

Now when the watch is ended - Rudyard Kipling "A Song to Mithras"

Now when the wine is drawn - Rudyard Kipling "A Song to Mithras"

Who tames the moonstruck tide - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Hours that grind us in our places - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Who launched our Ship of Fools - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Many anchors gave us - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Solemn rites to trivial deeds - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Builds a bulkhead 'twixt Despair and the Edge of Nothing - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Lit by the searchlights of the Pit - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Our ports of stranded pride - Rudyard Kipling "Sussex"

That breed huge oaks and old - Rudyard Kipling "Sussex"

We must wake the white-ash breeze - Rudyard Kipling "Thorkild's Song"

There's no wind in all these seas - Rudyard Kipling "Thorkild's Song"

Buried my heart in a ferny hill - Rudyard Kipling "A Three-Part Song"

On a Marsh that was old when Kings begun - Rudyard Kipling "A Three-Part Song"

About the time that taverns shut - Rudyard Kipling "The Tree of Justice: The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"

When they heard a whimper down the wind - Rudyard Kipling "The Tree of Justice: The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"

There's more things told than are true - Rudyard Kipling "The Tree of Justice: The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"

Greater are none beneath the Sun - Rudyard Kipling "A Tree Song"

That any way trusts her shade - Rudyard Kipling "A Tree Song"

We bring you news by word of mouth - Rudyard Kipling "A Tree Song"

Who received oppression and scorn for his wages - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"

Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"

The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"

The lines of our cropped and mangled vines - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"

Shut the road through the woods - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"

Weather and rain have undone it again - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"

Underneath the coppice and heath - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"

When the water's countenance blurs - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"

Marks each blindfold minute passed - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"

Guides us through the haggard night - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"

When the hid and perilous cliffs return our cry - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"

When the treble thickness spread - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"


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