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
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.
ancient bids blood cynic devil humor hurrying law mine mock mood saves shift
But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, h
buy love money
Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.
judy lady sisters
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady / Are sisters under their skins!
gold kid ordained praising silver sold son
If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold
honest names serving six taught
I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
england lights ships watch
The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
fever great
The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.
bought fathers freedom
All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
bought fathers freedom
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
alike places walked
The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
people
All the people like us are We, / And every one else is They.