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
gardening done half
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
substance done records
I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
judging done littles
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
love done ladders
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
dies england freedom stands
What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
found fun pay taken
I've taken my fun where I've found it / An' now I must pay for my fun.
pay sins
The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
clever fool fools-and-foolishness manage needs silliest woman
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool
born jest kinder turn work
Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?
honour mine
And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
clear dirty inside tend white wounded
An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire.
beastly college rooms
And your rooms at college was beastly - more like a whore's than a man's.
foot horse hundred kings son table thousand
Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay!).
generally ginger sand
E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.