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
nine single sixty tribal ways
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And - every - single - one - of- them - is - right!
full smells
The place was packed as full of smells as a bale is of cotton.
blaming head losing theirs
If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
beneath butterfly contentment exactly knows preaches road toad
The toad beneath the harrow knows / Exactly where each tooth-point goes; / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad.
ancient member profession
A member of the most ancient profession in the world.
crown gold hairy widow
Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
rio roll
And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!
honour mine
And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
pull trail
Pull out, pull out on the Long Trail - the trail that is always new!
bridge clear drive land law obedience road swift
Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford.
alike cat places walks
He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
captains ships gale
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
theatre triumph losing
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
writing history stories
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.