Rudyard Kipling 
The Seven Seas (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

A contemporary
New York Times review of this 1896 collection of poetry praised Kipling’s ‘immense rhythmic power. . . .  His preliminaries are always brief, but in the attack he carries all before him.’  The book includes the poems, “The First Chantey, ” “To the True Romance, ” and “Sestina of the Tramp-Royal, ” as well as a few of Kipling’s famous “Barrack-Room Ballads.”

About the author

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a past master of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”