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.
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.
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!
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.
writing history stories
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
san-francisco bay-area drawbacks
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
discrepancies-between unhappy-childhood preparation
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
mothers-day prayer motherhood
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.