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
heart eye sea
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.
death alive ginger
'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.
military gun thank-god
The Guns, Thank God, The Guns...
science self views
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
children devil sullen
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
memorial headstone gravestone
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
blue hands sea
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
heart men patriotism
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
gardening done half
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
moon hunting next
Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
rage score scholar
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
time flower eye
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
women heart home
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
women land maidens
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!