Who is Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book dilogy (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift."Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among t...
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Rudyard Kipling Poems

  • Gipsy Vans
    Unless you come of the gipsy stock
    That steals by night and day,
    Lock your heart with a double lock
    And throw the key away. ...
  • The Story Of Uriah
    Jack Barrett went to Quetta
    Because they told him to.
    He left his wife at Simla
    On three-fourths his monthly screw....
  • Gehazi
    1915


    Whence comest thou, Gehazi,...
  • Prophets At Home
    Prophets have honour all over the Earth,
    Except in the village where they were born,
    Where such as knew them boys from birth
    Nature-ally hold 'em in scorn. ...
  • Ballad Of Fisher's Boarding-house
    'T was Fultah Fisher's boarding-house,
    Where sailor-men reside,
    And there were men of all the ports
    From Mississip to Clyde,...
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Never 179 God 178 Night 173 Good 158 Time 158 Long 156 Earth 150 Heart 148 Away 141 I Love You 139


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A Schwartz: "Pink Dominoes" in your transcription is missing the last stanza, which contains the punchline! (Sir Julian bribes him to silence by giving him a job.)

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