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
blood lord paid price
If blood be the price of admiralty, / Lord God, we ha' paid in full!
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
life blood white
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.
blood childrens-books
We be of one blood, ye and I
fall fighting blood
Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
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.
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!
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
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.
began english man preached spoke taught
It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When the English began to hate.
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.
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.
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