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
women heart sight
Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.
country sleep gun
Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!
tombstone lying fighting
And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
nine way crafts
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
wine drunk water
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
wine aunt watches
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.
weed men garden
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.
gentleman eternity delinquency
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
faces gains calamity
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
brave-new-world men pay
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
our-love given interest
Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.
speak knows know-how
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
lure
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
mothers-day mom motherhood
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!