Poetry in English

Here are poems and versified texts in English, both rhymed and unrhymed. Here you’ll find specimens of elaborate baroque poetry alongside modernist blank verse. Contemporary poetry cohabits with masterpieces of the Romantic movement.

• The Floods by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Flight by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The First Chantey by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fires by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fall of Jock Gillespie by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fairies’ Siege by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Fabulists by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The English Flag by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Egg-Shell by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The ‘eathen by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Dove of Dacca by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Destroyers by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Deep-Sea Cables by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Declaration of London by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Dead King by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Comforters by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Children’s Song by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Captive by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Burial by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Broken Men by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Benefactors by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Bell Buoy by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of the Red Earl by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of the King’s Mercy by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of the King’s Jest by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• The Answer by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Tarrant Moss by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Sussex by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Study of an Elevation, In Indian Ink by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• South Africa by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Song of the Wise Children by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Song of Diego Valdez by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Soldier an’ Sailor Too by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Snarleyow by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Sir Richard’s Song by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Shillin’ a Day by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Seven Watchmen by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
• Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling