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
above body buried came caught days dead double ended frenchman head hook sea shoulders shout
Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water.
active behind great left paul slate weaknesses
He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we find him. / He's out on active service, wiping something off a slate - / And he's left a lot of little things behind him!
east meet shall twain west
East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
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
pay sins
The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
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
found fun pay taken
I've taken my fun where I've found it / An' now I must pay for my fun.
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?
cut man married
You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred
behind lost waiting
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
eternity
Gentlemen-Rankers out on the spree, / Damned from here to Eternity.
ancient bids blood cynic devil humor hurrying law mine mock mood saves shift
But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, h
hat pass pay
Pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay- pay - pay!
children heart adoption
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.