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
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.
behind copied copy follow half left mind stealing sweating year
They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind
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.
nine single sixty tribal ways
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And - every - single - one - of- them - is - right!
deaths died led lives mine watched
The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine
good memory nor stay style talk walked women
'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
ancient member profession
A member of the most ancient profession in the world.
army army-and-navy cold
Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.
man
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
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
bought fathers
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
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.
crown gold hairy widow
Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?