Rudyard Kipling

1865-1936 / Male / English
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The Female Of The SpeciesWhen the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, / He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. / But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
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IfIf you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; / If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
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Mowgli’s SongTHAT HE SANG AT THE COUNCIL ROCK WHEN HE DANCED ON SHERE KHAN’S HIDE / The Song of Mowgli—I, Mowgli, am singing. Let / the jungle listen to the things I have done.
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A DedicationMy new-cut ashlar takes the light / Where crimson-blank the windows flare; / By my own work, before the night,
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The Prodigal SonHere come I to my own again, / Fed, forgiven and known again, / Claimed by bone of my bone again
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Christmas In IndiaDim dawn behind the tamerisks—the sky is saffron-yellow— / As the women in the village grind the corn, / And the parrots seek the riverside, each calling to his fellow
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The Camel’s ****The Camel’s **** is an ugly lump / Which well you may see at the Zoo; / But uglier yet is the **** we get
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A Smuggler’s SongIf 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.
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We And TheyFather and Mother, and Me, / Sister and Auntie say / All the people like us are We,
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Recessional (A Victorian Ode)God of our fathers, known of old— / Lord of our far-flung battle line— / Beneath whose awful hand we hold
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