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
dies england freedom stands
What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
broken dinner england gardens knives lives men paths singing sitting start weeds
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing - 'Oh how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner knives
beneath england greater grow none oak trees
Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.
england lights ships watch
The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
england knows
Those who only know England know not England.
failure england failing
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
england should knows
And what should they know of England who only England know?
dream england paint
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!
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