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Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936 / Bombay / India)
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550 poems of Rudyard Kipling
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''What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet. Puck of Pook's Hill (l. 1-3). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday...
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''Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet. Puck of Pook's Hill (l. 1-4). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday...
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''She has no strong white arms to fold you,
But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you—
Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet. Puck of Pook's Hill (l. 7-9). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday...
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'''Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British author, poet. Pyecroft, in "Mrs. Bathurst," Traffics and Discoveries (1904).
Referring to Mrs. Bathurst.
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''A people always ends by resembling its shadow.''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British author, poet. quoted in Maurois, The Art of Writing, "The Writer's Craft," sct. 2 (1960).
Said to author and ...
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''Power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British author, poet. quoted in The Kipling Journal (Dec. 1971).
The quotation is often ascribed to British prime min...
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''Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British author, poet. quoted in Times (London, Feb. 15, 1923), speech, Feb. 14, 1923.
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''The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet. Recessional (l. 7-10). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday.
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The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
L...
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British writer, poet. repr. In The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1940). "Recessional," st. 2 (1897).
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''Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!''
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British poet. Recessional (l. 5-6). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday.
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