greykit.poetry — #empire

• 1902 [rudyard-kipling] The Islanders
  The Five Nations

  A savage rebuke to a complacent England — “the flannelled fools at the wicket … the muddied oafs at the goals.”

  #empire#england#satire#1900s
• 1899 [rudyard-kipling] The White Man’s Burden
  The Five Nations

  Kipling’s notorious exhortation to the United States to take up colonial rule of the Philippines.

  #empire#imperialism#1890s
• 1897 [rudyard-kipling] Recessional
  The Five Nations

  A hymn against imperial pride, written for Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

  #hymn#empire#1890s
• 1896 [rudyard-kipling] The Song of the Banjo
  The Seven Seas

  The brash, portable music that follows the soldier and settler to the ends of the Empire.

  #music#empire#1890s
• 1890 [rudyard-kipling] The Widow at Windsor
  Barrack-Room Ballads

  The Empire’s long reach, sung by the men who garrison it for “the Widow” — Queen Victoria.

  #ballad#soldiers#empire#1890s