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
behind lost waiting
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
road seventy shut woods
They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago.
again asia boards bombay clear holds miles nose ship smell till
It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger's nose till he is clear of Asia again
desire drew king unto
King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.
bridge clear drive land law obedience road swift
Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.
abstain improving manners marriage pleasant terrible wise
Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of marriage
hat pass pay
Pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay- pay - pay!
He who rebukes the world is rebuked by the world
alike cat places walks
He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
breeds gentiles lesser
Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
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
honest learning names serving six taught
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
learn yellow
There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / But the things you will learn from the Yellow and Brown, / They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!