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
jungle law true
Now this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky.
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!
unity wolf-packs jungle-book
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
people disturbed jungle
None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
temper jungle depends
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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!).