Category Rudyard Kipling

The first time that Peter denied his Lord  He shrank from the cudgel, the scourge and the cord,But followed far off to see what they would do,  Till the cock crew—till the cock crew—After Gethsemane, till the cock crew! The…

“Soldier, soldier come from the wars,Why don’t you march with my true love?”“We’re fresh from off the ship an’ ‘e’s maybe give the slip,An’ you’d best go look for a new love.”New love! True love!Best go look for a new…

As I was spittin’ into the Ditch aboard o’ the Crocodile,I seed a man on a man-o’-war got up in the Reg’lars’ style.‘E was scrapin’ the paint from off of ‘er plates, an’ I sez to ‘im, “‘Oo are you?”Sez…

This ‘appened in a battle to a batt’ry of the corpsWhich is first among the women an’ amazin’ first in war;An’ what the bloomin’ battle was I don’t remember now,But Two’s off-lead ‘e answered to the name o’ Snarleyow.   …

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet,Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street.Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie.Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!       Five…

  I followed my Duke ere I was a lover,   To take from England fief and fee;  But now this game is the other way over—   But now England hath taken me!   I had my horse, my shield and…

My name is O’Kelly, I’ve heard the RevellyFrom Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore,Hong-Kong and Peshawur,Lucknow and Etawah,And fifty-five more all endin’ in “pore”.Black Death and his quickness, the depth and the thickness,Of sorrow and sickness I’ve known on…

Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower,  Watching what had come upon mankind,Showed the Man the Glory and the Power,  And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind.“All things on Earth your will shall win you.”  (‘Twas so their council…

Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run,  And the deep soil glistens red,I will repair the wrong that was done  To the living and the dead.Here, where the senseless bullet fell,  And the barren shrapnel burst,I will plant a tree, I…

Speakin’ in general, I’ave tried ’em allThe ‘appy roads that take you o’er the world.Speakin’ in general, I’ave found them goodFor such as cannot use one bed too long,But must get ‘ence, the same as I’ave done,An’ go observin’ matters…