The White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile ...
Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile ...
Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride of Bow Bazaar, Owner of a native press, "Barrishter-at-Lar," Waited on the Government with a claim ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
God gave all men all earth to love, But, since our hearts are small Ordained for each one spot should ...
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges -- They that look still ...
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
(From The Jungle Book) Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
Peace is declared, and I return To 'Ackneystadt, but not the same; Things 'ave transpired which made me learn The ...
"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat"-- A Diversity of Creatures The Soldier may forget his Sword, The Sailorman ...
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time -- So was them that fought at Waterloo! ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds -- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
(From The Jungle Book) Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the ...
(From The Jungle Book) As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled Once, twice, and again! And a doe leaped ...
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
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