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
generally ginger sand
E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
compliments ears hope praise proper reaching sister
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears
compliments hope praise proper reaching sister
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
found fun pay taken
I've taken my fun where I've found it / An' now I must pay for my fun.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
pull trail
Pull out, pull out on the Long Trail - the trail that is always new!