Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Introduction
• I INDIA
• General Summary
• Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink
• The Story of Uriah
• A Code to Morals
• The Man Who Could Write
• My Rival
• To the Unknown Goddess
• Pagett, MP
• The Dove of Dacca
• The Mother-Lodge
• The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House
• Arithmetic on the Frontier
• Certain Maxims of Hafiz
• One Viceroy Resigns
• Akbar's Bridge
• The Last Suttee
• The Ballad of the King's Mercy
• II TRAVEL
• Dedication from 'Barrack-Room Ballads'
• Buddha at Kamakura
• The Song of the Cities
• The Gipsy Trail
• An American
• The Ballad of East and West
• A Song of French Roads
• Chartres Windows
• We and They
• The Open Door
• III THE SEA
• McAndrew's Hymn
• Cruisers
• The Exiles' Line
• The Long Trail
• Chapter Heading Written for 'The Fringes of the Fleet'
• The Deep-Sea Cables
• The Three Decker
• The Changelings
• IV EMPIRE
• The White Man's Burden
• Recessional
• Ode: Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance
• The Houses
• Our Lady of the Snows
• A Preface
• V THE MILITARY
• The Irish Guards
• Bobs
• Danny Deever
• Tommy
• Fuzzy-Wuzzy
• Solder, Soldier
• Screw-Guns
• Gunga Din
• Loot
• The Widow at Windsor
• Mandalay
• The Widow's Party
• Ford o'Kabul River
• Gentlemen-Rankers
• 'Back to the Army again'
• The Ladies
• Chant-Pagan
• VI SOUTH AFRICA
• The Burial
• The Settler
• The Lesson
• The Absent-Minded Beggar
• Boots
• Rhodes Memorial, Table Mountain
• Lichtenberg
• Piet
• Ubique
• VII WORLD WAR ONE
• Gethsemane
• The Holy War
• Mesopotamia
• For all we have and are
• A Recantation
• Epitaphs of the War
• The Children
• The Beginnings
• VIII ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH
• A Song of the English
• Sussex
• The English Flag
• Puck's Song
• The Way through the Woods
• A Three-Part Song
• A Tree Song
• The Puzzler
• Merrow Down
• The Land
• The Run of the Downs
• The Glory of the Garden
• The English Way
• London Stone
• IX HISTORICAL
• Cleared
• Gehzai
• An Imperial Rescript
• The City of Brass
• In the Neolithic Age
• The Bonfires
• The Last Rhyme of True Thomas
• A St Helena Lullaby
• Great-Heart
• Philadelphia
• A Smuggler's Song
• The River's Tale
• Dane-Geld
• Norman and Saxon
• Rahere
• The King's Pilgrimage
• The Storm Cone
• X THE LAW
• A Boy Scouts Patrol Song
• The Songs of Martha
• Cold Iron
• The Law of the Jungle
• The Children's Song
• If --
• Doctors
• The Secret of Machines
• XI LOVE AND WOMEN
• The Betrothed
• The Female of the species
• Mary, pity women!
• Blue Roses
• My Lady's LAw
• XII STORIES
• Outsong in the Jungle
• Harp Song of the Dane Women
• Just So Verses
• XIII CREATIVITY
• When Earth's Last Picture is Painted
• The Conundrum of the Workshops
• The Craftesmen
• Samuel Pepys
• The Fabulists
• The Coiner
• Jane's Marriage
• A Legend of Truth
• XIV PERSONAL
• The Boy Jack
• The Vampire
• To James Whitcomb Riley
• To the Companions
• The Mother's Son
• Hymn to Physical Pain
• A Song to the desert
• Mother o'Mine
• XV LIFE'S MYSTERIES
• Tomlinson
• En-dor
• The Jester
• The Sack of the Gods
• The Two sided Man
• An Astrologers Song
• The Rabbi's Song
• The Prayer of Miriam Cohen
• Hymn of Breaking Strain
• Jobson's Amen
• 'My new-cut ashlar'
• At his Execution
• Hymn of the Triumphant Airman
• XVI SOCIETY
• Verses on Games
• The Press
• The Idiot Boy
• Gipsy Vans
• Neighbours
• The Expert
• The Gods of the Copybook heqadings
• XVII ANIMAL WORLD
• Darzee's Chaunt
• Alnaschar and the Oxen
• Dinah in Heaven
• Supplication of the Black Aberdeen
• Fox-Hunting
• Notes
• Index of Titles and First Lines