Rudyard Kipling

1865-1936 / Male / English
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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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Anchor SongHeh! Walk her round. Heave, ah, heave her short again! / Over, ****** her over, there, and hold her on the pawl. / Loose all sail, and brace your yards aback and full—
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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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At His ExecutionI am made all things to all men— / Hebrew, Roman, and Greek— / In each one’s tongue I speal,
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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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Gunga DinYou may talk o’ gin and beer / When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, / An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it;
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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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KimUnto whose use the pregnant suns are poised, / With idiot moons and stars retracting stars? / Creep thou between—thy coming’s all unnoised.
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L’ EnvoiThere’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield / And the ricks stand gray to the sun, / Singing:—’Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover
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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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