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
east meet shall twain west
East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular.
foot horse hundred kings son table thousand
Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay!).
generally ginger sand
E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
ancient member profession
A member of the most ancient profession in the world.
bought fathers
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
cut man married
You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred
rides tallest
There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
hat lived rays reflected sun whose
There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.
allah created english mad mankind
For Allah created the English mad - the maddest of all mankind!
begin guns
It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
road seventy shut woods
They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago.
beneath butterfly contentment exactly knows preaches road toad
The toad beneath the harrow knows / Exactly where each tooth-point goes; / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad.
born jest kinder turn work
Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?