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
bargain either price seriously sign tried
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price
distance earth fill minute sixty worth yours
If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
common crowds kings lose nor talk walk
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
blaming head losing theirs
If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
eating egg kissed kisses-and-kissing man moustache wax
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.
call christmas custom feast follow forced merry mocking neighbors past richer sadness
Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past
glasgow heard lie paid prayed soul starve
Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.
blame burden hate reap white
Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard.
crown gold hairy widow
Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
army army-and-navy cold
Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.
honour mine
And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
clear dirty inside tend white wounded
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire.
beastly college rooms
And your rooms at college was beastly - more like a whore's than a man's.
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!).