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 Burden
    One grief on me is laid
    Each day of every year,
    Wherein no soul can aid,
    Whereof no soul can hear:...
  • The Houses
    1898 -- A Song of the Dominions


    'Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad,...
  • Fox-hunting
    THE FOX MEDITATES

    When Samson set my brush afire
    To spoil the Timnites barley,...
  • Sea-wife
    There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate,
    And a wealthy wife is she;
    She breeds a breed o' rovin' men
    And casts them over sea....
  • Shillin' A Day
    My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly
    From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore,
    Hong-Kong and Peshawur,
    Lucknow and Etawah,...
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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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