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
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!
allah created english mad mankind
For Allah created the English mad - the maddest of all mankind!
man
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
eating egg kissed kisses-and-kissing man moustache wax
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.
salt
Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?
judy lady sisters
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady / Are sisters under their skins!
draw god sees separate shall
And, each in his separate star, / Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are!
glasgow heard lie paid prayed soul starve
Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.
bent follow fool fools-and-foolishness natural
But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).
fears liars worst
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears
army army-and-navy cold
Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.
change jest mind nature proved time
Have it jest as you've a mind to, but I've proved it time on time, / If you want to change her nature you have got to give her lime.
desire drew king unto
King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.
fever great
The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.