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
fun head mouth thundering tongue
I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick, But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard; I've made the cinders fly, And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drin
head mouth tongue
I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick.
road seventy shut woods
They shut the road through the woods / Seventy years ago.
ancient member profession
A member of the most ancient profession in the world.
bought fathers
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
rides tallest
There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
hat lived rays reflected sun whose
There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.
man
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
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!
crown gold hairy widow
Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
army army-and-navy cold
Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.
nine single sixty tribal ways
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And - every - single - one - of- them - is - right!
fancy grow men nor red remarkable saints single thin
We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints