Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 December 1865
CityMumbai, India
lying two earth
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
morning dawn thunder
As the dawn comes up like thunder.
failure england failing
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
memorial headstone gravestone
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
play dawn thunder
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
dog horse cat
Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him
country men world
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
two want-something wellness
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
book reading men
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
pay
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
funny death suicide
I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
god host forget
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!
heart race age
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
england should knows
And what should they know of England who only England know?