The Seven Seas
By Rudyard Kipling
Cover: The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up (1839), oil on canvas by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1851)
Kipling's 1896 volume sings of the sea and the empire in A Song of the English, McAndrew's Hymn, The Mary Gloster, The Last Chantey and The Rhyme of the Three Sealers. Its Barrack-Room Ballads are left out here, as they have a book of their own.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Dedication
- 2: A Song of the English
- 3: The First Chantey
- 4: The Last Chantey
- 5: The Merchantmen
- 6: Mcandrews' Hymn
- 7: The Miracles
- 8: The Native-Born
- 9: The King
- 10: The Rhyme of the Three Sealers
- 11: The Derelict
- 12: The Song of the Banjo
- 13: Mulholland's Contract
- 14: Anchor Song
- 15: The Sea-Wife
- 16: Hymn Before Action
- 17: To the True Romance
- 18: The Flowers
- 19: The Last Rhyme of True Thomas
- 20: The Story of Ung
- 21: The Three-Decker
- 22: An American
- 23: The Mary Gloster
- 24: Sestina of the Tramp-Royal