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
- The Four Points
Thomas Tusser
Ere stopping or turning, to put forth a hande... - The Necessitarian
I know not in Whose hands are laid
To empty upon earth
From unsuspected ambuscade
The very Urns of Mirth;... - To: Thomas Atkins
I have made for you a song,
And it may be right or wrong,
But only you can tell me if it-s true;
I have tried for to explain... - The Gipsy Trail
The white moth to the closing bine,
The bee to the opened clover,
And the gipsy blood to the gipsy blood
Ever the wide world over.... - The Widow's Party
"Where have you been this while away,
Johnnie, Johnnie?"
'Long with the rest on a picnic lay,
Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha!...
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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 139Rudyard Kipling Quotes
- Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
- I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.
- Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
- Every woman knows all about everything.
- Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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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.)