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
fair leaders leaders-and-leadership lie meets neither pack prevail shall till words
When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leaders have spoken, It may be fair words shall prevail
desire fairy-tale tales
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
land men might sing took
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, / He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; / An' what he thought 'e might require, / 'E went an' took - the same as me!
eagle man triple ways
There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
beat heard pull song trail
You have heard the beat of the off-shore wind, / And the thresh of the deep-sea rain; / You have heard the song - how long? how long? / Pull out on the trail again!
chelsea fifty outer talks walks
Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand, / An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?
lost
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned.
paid
Ye thought? Ye are not paid to think.
travels
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
fear jungle shadow sigh softly
Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh - / He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!
cosmos ego
You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos
east meet shall twain west
East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular.
last painted picture twisted
When the Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried.