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Joseph Rudyard Kipling, also known as, “Gigger,” by his best friend George Beresford, says Noble Prize (World Biography 1.par. 2), and is described as, “a short, but ‘cheery, capering, podgy, little fellow.’” He was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India from his father, John Lockwood Kipling, and mother, Alice Macdonald. Kipling is most commonly known as, Rudyard Kipling. It is said, by Rudyard Kipling Biography that his parents met, “at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England, hence Kipling’s name.” (Biography Base 1.par. 1)

In 1871, Rudyard Kipling was sent to a school in England called, College at Westward Ho!. As a youngster, he was bullied and disciplined harshly by his teachers. During his time at school, he edited the school newspaper and wrote poems to put in it. They were praised. He had a writing talent even as a young child. Some of these same poems were sent by his father to India to be secretly printed under the name, “Schoolboy Lyrics,” says (World Biography 1.par. 3) in 1881.

In 1881, he went back to India after finishing his schooling at age 16 to be near his parents. He no longer lived in Bombay, but Lahore which is Pakistan in modern times. Here he worked locally as a newspaper editor, but his, “first professional sales,” were in 1883, says Noble Prize (Biography Base 1.par. 2). In 1887, he changed to a different newspaper called Allahabad Pioneer. This gave him more freedom in his writing. Some of his published works were satiric or sharply or bitterly witty, says Noble Prize. Others were short stories greatly influenced by other famous poets such as Edgar Allen Poe, Bret Harte and Guy de Maupassant. In 1888, seventy short stories were published under seven paperback volumes, according to Noble Prize.

In 1889, Rudyard Kipling found himself journeying back to England through Burma, China, Japan and California before crossing the United States and the Atlantic Ocean and settling in London, says Rudyard Kipling Biography (Biography Base 1.par. 3). From here, his name spread like wildfire. He was a literary voice of, “imperialist tempo,” says (Biography Base 1.par. 4). While in London, he was quickly accepted as a great writer and wrote a number of his best works there. Some of these include: A Ballad of East and West, Mandalay, The English Flag, Danny Deever, Tommy, Fuzzy- Wuzzy and Gunga Din. Many of these brought about a new type of writing written in Cockney dialect says, (World Biography 1.par. 5).

On 1892, Rudyard Kipling married Caroline Balestier, his friend’s sister. These were known as the, “four of the happiest years of Kipling’s life,” says (World Biography 1.par. 7). His most popular book, The Jungle Book, was written, then about the larger truths of life. Along with this book, came a sequel and many others just as wonderful during this time. Together, Kipling and his new bride lived in the United States for the next four years in Vermont. Around 1897, the Kiplings moved to Rottingdean on the British coast. Rottingdean was a village in Brighton. A year later, on 1898, the Spanish-American War started, then, the Boer War in 1899. These turned Rudyard Kipling’s attention to colonial affairs. Under this new umbrella, famous poems like, “Recessional,” and, “Diamond Jubilee,” hit the press, says (World Biography 1.par. 8).

Over the next century, Kipling’s name began to fade, but before doing so, he went out with a bang. In 1907, he was awarded with a Nobel Prize in Literature; bookending this achievement was the publication of two connected poetry and story collections, says (Biography Base 1.par. 9). In the late 19th century, World War One started, and death of his oldest son John in 1915 led him to a time of great tragedy and sadness. In response, he became part of the, “Sir Fabian Ware’s Imperial War Graves Commission,” says (Biography Base 1.par. 10) where members were responsible for the graves of British soldiers. In 1926, he received the Gold Medal of Royal Society of Literature, which only Scott, Meredith and Hardy had been awarded before him (Nobel Prize 1.par. 2). He kept up his writing during the 1930’s, but much slower. Then, on 1936 Joseph Rudyard Kipling died of a brain hemorrhage. To this day, his ideas of communism and the imperialist ideal still stand, but many wonder if he deserves the tag of a ‘great writer’.

Biography 1

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet.

Kipling's Childhood

Kipling was born in Bombay, India. His father was John Lockwood Kipling, a teacher at the local Jeejeebhoy School of Art, and his mother was Alice Macdonald. They are said to have met at Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England, hence Kipling's name. His mother's sister was married to the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and young Kipling and his sister spent much time with the Burne-Joneses in England from the ages of six to twelve, while his parents remained in India. Kipling was a cousin of the three-times prime minister Stanley Baldwin.

After a spell at boarding school, Kipling returned to India himself, to Lahore (in modern-day Pakistan) where his parents now were, in 1881. He began working as a newspaper editor for a local edition and continued tentative steps into the world of poetry; his first professional sales were in 1883.

His Early Travels

By the mid-1880s he was travelling around the subcontinent as a correspondent for the Allahabad Pioneer. His fiction sales also began to bloom, and he published six short books of short stories in 1888. One short story dating from this time is "The Man Who Would Be a King", later made famous as a slightly differently named movie featuring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.

The next year Kipling began a long journey back to England, going through Burma, China, Japan, and California before crossing the United States and the Atlantic Ocean and settling in London. From then on his fame grew rapidly, and he positioned himself as the literary voice most closely associated with the imperialist tempo of the time in the United Kingdom (and, indeed, the rest of the Western world and Japan). His first novel, The Light that Failed, was published in 1890. The most famous of his poems of this time is probably "The Ballad of East and West" (which begins "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet")

His Career as a Writer

In 1892 he married Caroline Balastier; her brother, an American writer, had been Kipling's friend but had died of typhoid fever the previous year. While on honeymoon Kipling's bank failed and cashing in their travel tickets only let the couple return as far as Vermont (where most of the Balastier family lived). Rudyard and his new bride would live in the United States for the next four years. During this time he turned his hand to writing for children, and he published the work for which he is most remembered today -- The Jungle Book -- and its sequel The Second Jungle Book -- in 1894 and 1895.

After a quarrel with his in-laws, he and his wife returned to England, and in 1897 he published Captains Courageous. The next year he would begin travelling to southern Africa for winter vacations almost every year. There he would meet and befriend another icon of British imperialism, Cecil Rhodes, and begin collecting material for another of his children's classics, Just So Stories for Little Children. That work was published in 1902, and another of his enduring works, the Indian spy novel Kim, first saw the light of day the previous year. In 2001, the novel would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

Kipling's poetry of the time included "The White Man's Burden". In the non-fiction realm he also became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power, publishing a series of articles collectively entitled A Fleet in Being.

During the first decade of the 20th century, Kipling was at the height of his popularity. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; bookending this achievement was the publication of two connected poetry and story collections, 1906's Puck of Pook Hill and 1910's Rewards and Fairies. The latter contained the poem If -. In a 1995 BBC opinion poll, it was voted Britain's favourite poem. This exhortation to seize the day is arguably Kipling's single most famous poem.

The Effects of World War I

Kipling was so closely associated with the expansive, confident attitude of late 19th-century European civilization that it was inevitable that his reputation would suffer in the years of and after World War I; Kipling also knew personal tragedy at the time as his eldest son, John, died in 1915 at the Battle of Loos. Partly in response, he joined Sir Fabian Ware's Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission), the group responsible for the garden-like British war graves that can be found to this day dotted along the former Western Front. His most significant contribution to the project was his selection of the biblical phrase "Their Name Liveth For Evermore" found on the Stones of Remembrance in larger war graves.

In 1922, Kipling, who had made reference to the work of engineers in some of his poems and writings, was asked by a University of Toronto civil engineering professor for his assistance in developing a dignified obligation and ceremony for graduating engineering students. Kipling was very enthusiastic in his response and shortly produced both an obligation and a ceremony formally entitled "The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer." Today, engineering graduates all across Canada, and even some in the United States, are presented with an iron ring at the ceremony as a reminder of their obligation to society.

His Death and Legacy

Kipling kept writing until the early 1930s, but at a slower pace and with much less success than before. He died of a brain haemorrhage in early 1936.

He continued falling into critical eclipse afterwards. Today it is difficult to decide if Kipling has a rightful place in the pantheon of great writers. As the European colonial empires collapsed in the mid-20th century and the ideas of communism gained influence, Kipling's works fell far out of step with the times. Many who condemn him are really criticizing the imperialist ideal, rather than Kipling himself.

His main literary legacy in the period immediately following his death was on American science fiction, as John W. Campbell considered him an ideal to be followed. Many science fiction writers still consciously follow his example.

Today, Kipling is most highly regarded for his children's books, while in his own lifetime he was primarily considered a poet, and was even offered the post of British Poet Laureate — though he turned it down. There are signs of rehabilitation in Kipling's reputation both as a writer of mature prose and of poetry, as public tastes change once again. Where the pendulum of regard will come to rest remains to be seen.

After the death of Kipling's wife in 1939, his house in Sussex was bequeathed to the National Trust and is now a public museum to the author. There is a thriving Kipling Society in the UK.

"Rudyard Kipling Biography." Rudyard Kipling Biography. GNU Free Documentation Licence, 2004. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. .

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Biography 2

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The English poet and story writer Rudyard Kipling was one of the first masters of the short story in English, and he was the first to use Cockney dialect (the manner in which natives of London, England's, East End speak) in serious poetry.

Early life

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. His father was professor of architectural sculpture at the Bombay School of Art. In 1871 Kipling was sent to England for his education. In 1878 Rudyard entered the United Services College at Westward Ho!, a boarding school in Devon. There young "Gigger," as he was called, endured bullying and harsh discipline, but he also enjoyed the close friendships, practical jokes, and merry pranks he later recorded in Stalky & Co. (1899).

Kipling's closest friend at Westward Ho!, George Beresford, described him as a short, but "cheery, capering, podgy, little fellow" with a thick pair of spectacles over "a broad smile." His eyes were brilliant blue, and over them his heavy black eyebrows moved up and down as he talked. Another close friend was the headmaster, (the principal of a private school) "Crom" Price, who encouraged Kipling's literary ambitions by having him edit the school paper and praising the poems which he wrote for it. When Kipling sent some of these to India, his father had them privately printed as Schoolboy Lyrics (1881), Kipling's first published work.

Young journalist

In 1882 Kipling rejoined his parents in Lahore, India, where he became a copy editor (one who edits newspaper articles) for the Civil and Military Gazette. In 1887 he moved to the Allahabad Pioneer, a better paper, which gave him greater liberty in his writing. He published satiric (sharply or bitterly witty) verses, Departmental Ditties in 1886, and over seventy short stories in 1888 in seven paperback volumes. In style, these stories showed the influence of the writers Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Bret Harte (1836–1902), and Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893). The subjects, however, were Kipling's own. He wrote about Anglo-Indian society, which he readily criticized with an acid pen, and the life of the common British soldier and the Indian native, which he portrayed accurately and sympathetically.

Fame in England

In 1889 Kipling took a long voyage through China, Japan, and the United States. When he reached London, he found that his stories had preceded him and established him as a brilliant new author. He was readily accepted into the circle of leading writers. While there he wrote a number of stories and some of his best-remembered poems: "A Ballad of East and West," "Mandalay," and "The English Flag." He also introduced English readers to a "new genre [type]" of serious poems in Cockney dialect: "Danny Deever," "Tommy," "Fuzzy-Wuzzy," and "Gunga Din."

Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed (1891), was unsuccessful. But when his stories were collected as Life's Handicap (1891) and poems as Barrackroom Ballads (1892), Kipling replaced Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) as the most popular English author.

The American years

In 1892 Kipling married Caroline Balestier. They settled on the Balestier estate near Brattleboro, Vermont, in the United States, and began four of the happiest years of Kipling's life. During this time he wrote some of his best work— Many Inventions (1893), perhaps his best volume of short stories; The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895), two books of animal fables that attracted readers of all ages by illustrating the larger truths of life; The Seven Seas (1896), a collection of poems in experimental rhythms; and Captains Courageous (1897), a novel-length, sea story. These works not only assured Kipling's lasting fame as a serious writer but also made him a rich man.

His imperialism

In 1897 the Kiplings settled in Rottingdean, a village on the British coast near Brighton. The outbreak of the Spanish-American War (1898; a short war between Spain and the United States over lands including Cuba and the Philippines) and the Boer War (1899–1902; a war between Great Britain and South Africa) turned Kipling's attention to colonial affairs. He began to publish a number of solemn poems in standard English in the London Times. The most famous of these, "Recessional" (July 17, 1897), issued a warning to Englishmen to regard their accomplishments in the Diamond Jubilee (fiftieth) year of Queen Victoria's (1819–1901) reign with humility and awe rather than pride and arrogance. The equally well-known "White Man's Burden" (February 4, 1899) clearly expressed the attitudes toward the empire that are implied in the stories in The Day's Work (1898) and A Fleet in Being (1898).

Kipling referred to less highly developed peoples as "lesser breeds" and considered order, discipline, sacrifice, and humility to be the essential qualities of colonial rulers. These views have been denounced as racist (believing that one race is better than others), elitist (believing oneself to be a part of a superior group), and jingoistic (pertaining to a patriot who speaks in favor of an aggressive and warlike foreign policy). But for Kipling, the term "white man" indicated citizens of the more highly developed nations. He felt it was their duty to spread law, literacy, and morality throughout the world.

During the Boer War, Kipling spent several months in South Africa, where he raised funds for soldiers' relief and worked on an army newspaper, the Friend. In 1901 Kipling published Kim, the last and most charming of his portrayals of Indian life. But anti-imperialist reaction following the end of the Boer War caused a decline in Kipling's popularity.

When Kipling published The Five Nations, a book of South African verse, in 1903, he was attacked in parodies (satirical imitations), caricatures (exaggerations for comic effect), and serious protests as the opponent of a growing spirit of peace and democratic equality. Kipling retired to "Bateman's," a house near Burwash, a secluded village in Essex.

Later works

Kipling now turned from the wide empire as his subject to simply England itself. In 1902 he published Just So Stories for Little Children. He also issued two books of stories of England's past— Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and Rewards and Fairies (1910). Like the Jungle Books they were intended for young readers but were suitable for adults as well. His most significant work at this time was a number of volumes of short stories written in a different style—"Traffics and Discoveries" (1904), "Actions and Reactions" (1904), "A Diversity of Creatures" (1917), "Debits and Credits" (1926), and "Limits and Renewals" (1932).

Kipling's later stories treat more complex, subtle, and somber (serious) subjects. They reflect Kipling's darkened worldview following the death of his daughter, Josephine, in 1899, and the death of his son, John, in 1915. Consequently, these stories have never been as popular as his earlier works. But modern critics, in reevaluating Kipling, have found a greater power and depth that make them among his best work.

In 1907 Kipling became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died on January 18, 1936, and is buried in Westminster Abbey in London, England. His autobiography, Something of Myself, was published in 1937.

Rudyard Kipling's early stories and poems about life in colonial India made him a great favorite with English readers. His support of English imperialism (the policy of extending the rule of a nation over foreign countries) at first contributed to this popularity but caused a reaction against him in the twentieth century. Today he is best known for his Jungle Books and Kim, a Story of India.

"World Biography." Rudyard Kipling Biography. Advameg Inc., 2012. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. .

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Biography 3

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford. In 1882 he returned to India, where he worked for Anglo-Indian newspapers. His literary career began with Departmental Ditties (1886), but subsequently he became chiefly known as a writer of short stories. A prolific writer, he achieved fame quickly. Kipling was the poet of the British Empire and its yeoman, the common soldier, whom he glorified in many of his works, in particular Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) and Soldiers Three (1888), collections of short stories with roughly and affectionately drawn soldier portraits. His Barrack Room Ballads (1892) were written for, as much as about, the common soldier. In 1894 appeared his Jungle Book, which became a children's classic all over the world. Kim (1901), the story of Kimball O'Hara and his adventures in the Himalayas, is perhaps his most felicitous work. Other works include The Second Jungle Book (1895), The Seven Seas (1896), Captains Courageous (1897), The Day's Work (1898), Stalky and Co. (1899), Just So Stories (1902), Trafficks and Discoveries (1904), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), Actions and Reactions (1909), Debits and Credits (1926), Thy Servant a Dog (1930), and Limits and Renewals (1932). During the First World War Kipling wrote some propaganda books. His collected poems appeared in 1933.

 

 Kipling was the recipient of many honorary degrees and other awards. In 1926 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, which only Scott, Meredith, and Hardy had been awarded before him.

 

 From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969

 

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

 

 

 

Rudyard Kipling died on January 18, 1936.

 

"Rudyard Kipling - Biography". . 14 Oct 2012

 

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10 Poems (5 min)

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1. If

If 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,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

The art and science of explaining how the various aspects of a poem coalesce to crea



2.

A Legend of Truth

Once on a time, the ancient legends tell,

Truth, rising from the bottom of her well,

Looked on the world, but, hearing how it lied,

Returned to her seclusion horrified.

There she abode, so conscious of her worth,

Not even Pilate's Question called her forth,

Nor Galileo, kneeling to deny

The Laws that hold our Planet 'neath the sky.

Meantime, her kindlier sister, whom men call

Fiction, did all her work and more than all,

With so much zeal, devotion, tact, and care,

That no one noticed Truth was otherwhere.

Then came a War when, bombed and gassed and mined,

Truth rose once more, perforce, to meet mankind,

And through the dust and glare and wreck of things,

Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings,

Reeling and groping, dazed, dishevelled, dumb,

But semaphoring direr deeds to come.

Truth hailed and bade her stand; the quavering shade

Clung to her knees and babbled, "Sister, aid!

I am--I was--thy Deputy, and men

Besought me for my useful tongue or pen

To gloss their gentle deeds, and I complied,

And they, and thy demands, were satisfied.

But this--" she pointed o'er the blistered plain,

Where men as Gods and devils wrought amain--

"This is beyond me! Take thy work again."

Tablets and pen transferred, she fled afar,

And Truth assumed the record of the War...

She saw, she heard, she read, she tried to tell

Facts beyond precedent and parallel--

Unfit to hint or breathe, much less to write,

But happening every minute, day and night.

She called for proof. It came. The dossiers grew.

She marked them, first, "Return. This can't be true."

Then, underneath the cold official word:

"This is not really half of what occurred."

She faced herself at last, the story runs,

And telegraphed her sister: "Come at once.

Facts out of hand. Unable overtake

Without your aid. Come back for Truth's own sake!

Co-equal rank and powers if you agree.

They need us both, but you far more than me!"



3. A Child's Garden

Now there is nothing wrong with me

Except -- I think it's called T.B.

And that is why I have to lay

Out in the garden all the day.

Our garden is not very wide

And cars go by on either side,

And make an angry-hooty noise

That rather startles little boys.

But worst of all is when they take

Me out in cars that growl and shake,

With charabancs so dreadful-near

I have to shut my eyes for fear.

But when I'm on my back again,

I watch the Croydon aeroplane

That flies across to France, and sings

Like hitting thick piano-strings.

When I am strong enough to do

The things I'm truly wishful to,

I'll never use a car or train

But always have an aeroplane;

And just go zooming round and round,

And frighten Nursey with the sound,

And see the angel-side of clouds,

And spit on all those motor-crowds!



4.

A Carol

He binds His frost upon the land

To ripen it for Spring --

To ripen it for Spring, good sirs,

According to His Word.

Which well must be as ye can see --

And who shall judge the Lord?

When we poor fenmen skate the ice

Or shiver on the wold,

We hear the cry of a single tree

That breaks her heart in the cold --

That breaks her heart in the cold, good sirs,

And rendeth by the board.

Which well must be as ye can see --

And who shall judge the Lord?

Her wood is crazed and little worth

Excepting as to burn,

That we may warm and make our mirth

Until the Spring return --

Until the Spring return, good sirs,

When Christians walk abroad;

When well must be as ye can see --

And who shall judge the Lord?

God bless the master of this house,

And all who sleep therein!

And guard the fens from pirate folk,

And keep us all from sin,

To walk in honesty, good sirs,

Of thought and deed and word!

Which shall befriend our latter end....

And who shall judge the Lord?



5.

"Our Fathers Also"

Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings,

Are changing 'neath our hand.

Our fathers also see these things

But they do not understand.

By--they are by with mirth and tears,

Wit or the works of Desire-

Cushioned about on the kindly years

Between the wall and the fire.

The grapes are pressed, the corn is shocked--

Standeth no more to glean;

For the Gates of Love and Learning locked

When they went out between.

All lore our Lady Venus bares,

Signalled it was or told

By the dear lips long given to theirs

And longer to the mould.

All Profit, all Device, all Truth,

Written it was or said

By the mighty men of their mighty youth,

Which is mighty being dead.

The film that floats before their eyes

The Temple's Veil they call;

And the dust that on the Shewbread lies

Is holy over all.

Warn them of seas that slip our yoke,

Of slow-conspiring stars-

The ancient Front of Things unbroke

But heavy with new wars?

By--they are by with mirth and tears,

Wit or the waste of Desire-

Cushioned about on the kindly years

Between the wall and the fire!



6.

"Helen all Alone"

There was darkness under Heaven

For an hour's space--

Darkness that we knew was given

Us for special grace.

Sun and moon and stars were hid,

God had left His Throne,

When Helen came to me, she did,

Helen all alone!

Side by side (because our fate

Damned us ere our birth)

We stole out of Limbo Gate

Looking for the Earth.

Hand in pulling hand amid

Fear no dreams have known,

Helen ran with me, she did,

Helen all alone!

When the Horror passing speech

Hunted us along,

Each laid hold on each, and each

Found the other strong.

In the teeth of Things forbid

And Reason overthrown,

Helen stood by me, she did,

Helen all alone!

When, at last, we heard those Fires

Dull and die away,

When, at last, our linked desires

Dragged us up to day;

When, at last, our souls were rid

Of what that Night had shown,

Helen passed from me, she did,

Helen all alone!

Let her go and find a mate,

As I will find a bride,

Knowing naught of Limbo Gate

Or Who are penned inside.

There is knowledge God forbid

More than one should own.

So Helen went from me, she did,

Oh, my soul, be glad she did!

Helen all alone!



7.

"For All We Have And Are"

For all we have and are,

For all our children's fate,

Stand up and take the war.

The Hun is at the gate!

Our world has passed away,

In wantonness o'erthrown.

There is nothing left to-day

But steel and fire and stone!

Though all we knew depart,

The old Commandments stand: --

"In courage keep your heart,

In strength lift up your hand."

Once more we hear the word

That sickened earth of old: --

"No law except the Sword

Unsheathed and uncontrolled."

Once more it knits mankind,

Once more the nations go

To meet and break and bind

A crazed and driven foe.

Comfort, content, delight,

The ages' slow-bought gain,

They shrivelled in a night.

Only ourselves remain

To face the naked days

In silent fortitude,

Through perils and dismays

Renewed and re-renewed.

Though all we made depart,

The old Commandments stand: --

"In patience keep your heart,

In strength lift up your hand."

No easy hope or lies

Shall bring us to our goal,

But iron sacrifice

Of body, will, and soul.

There is but one task for all --

One life for each to give.

What stands if Freedom fall?

Who dies if England live?



8.

"Cities and Thrones and Powers"

 

Cities and Thrones and Powers

  Stand  in Time's eye,

Almost as long as flowers,

  Which daily die:

But, as new buds put forth

  To glad new men,

Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth

  The Cities rise again.

 

This season's Daffodil,

  She never hears

What change, what chance, what chill,

  Cut down last year's;

But with bold countenance,

  And knowledge small,

Esteems her seven days' continuance,

  To be perpetual.

 

So Time that is o'er-kind

  To all that be,

Ordains us e'en as blind,

  As bold as she:

That in our very death,

  And  burial sure,

Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith,

  "See how our works endure!"

 

           

9.        

"By the Hoof of the Wild Goat"

 

    By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed

    From the cliff where she lay in the Sun

    Fell the Stone

    To the Tarn where the daylight is lost,

    So she fell from the light of the Sun

    And alone!

 

    Now the fall was ordained from the first

    With the Goat and the Cliff and the Tarn,

    But the Stone

    Knows only her life is accursed

    As she sinks from the light of the Sun

    And alone!

 

    Oh Thou Who hast builded the World,

    Oh Thou Who hast lighted the Sun,

    Oh Thou Who hast darkened the Tarn,

    Judge Thou

    The sin of the Stone that was hurled

    By the goat from the light of the Sun,

    As she sinks in the mire of the Tarn,

    Even now--even now--even now!

 

           

10.      

Banquet Night

 "ONCE in so often," King Solomon said,

 Watching his quarrymen drill the stone,

"We will club our garlic and wine and bread

 And banquet together beneath my Throne,

And all the Brethren shall come to that mess

As Fellow-Craftsmen-no more and no less."

 

"Send a swift shallop to Hiram of Tyre,

 Felling and floating our beautiful trees,

Say that the Brethren and I desire

 Talk with our Brethren who use the seas.

And we shall be happy to meet them at mess

As Fellow-Craftsmen-no more and no less."

 

"Carry this message to Hiram Abif-

 Excellent master of forge and mine :-

I and the Brethren would like it if

 He and the Brethren will come to dine

(Garments from Bozrah or morning-dress)

As Fellow-Craftsmen-no more and no less."

 

"God gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place-

 Also the Bramble, the Fig and the Thorn-

But that is no reason to black a man's face

 Because he is not what he hasn't been born.

And, as touching the Temple, I hold and profess

We are Fellow-Craftsmen-no more and no less."

 

So it was ordered and so it was done,

 And the hewers of wood and the Masons of Mark,

With foc'sle hands of Sidon run

 And Navy Lords from the Royal Ark,

Came and sat down and were merry at mess

As Fellow-Craftsmen-no more and no less.

 

The Quarries are hotter than Hiram's forge,

 No one is safe from the dog-whip's reach.

It's mostly snowing up Lebanon gorge,

 And it's always blowing off Joppa beach;

 

But once in so often, the messenger brings

Solomon's mandate : "Forget these things!

Brother to Beggars and Fellow to Kings,

Companion of Princes-forget these things!

Fellow-Craftsmen, forget these things!"

 



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10 Quotes

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1.         God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

2.         “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works

 

           

 

3.         I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

4.         If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

5.         He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

 Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

6.         We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

7.         “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

― Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

8.         “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

 

           

 

9.         “Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”

― Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

10.       “Buy a pup and your money will buy

Love unflinching that cannot lie.”

― Rudyard Kipling

 

           

 

11.       I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child (1902)

 

           

 

12.       “If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price”

 

           

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Galileo

Parker, Bel. "In Three Dimensions." Kipling Journal 86.347 (2012): 20-22. Literary Reference Center. Web. 17 Oct. 2012.

Timeline

• Born December 30, 1865 in Bombay

• 1871 College at Westward Ho!

• 1881 poetry secretly printed by his father as "Schoolboy lyrics’ in India

• 1881 moves back to india – Lahore- to be with his parents

• 1883 first perfessional newspaper sales

• 1887 he changed to a different newspaper called Allahabad Pioneer

• 1888 seventy short stories were published under seven paperback volumes

• 1889 Rudyard Kipling found himself journeying back to England through Burma, China, Japan and California before crossing the United States and the Atlantic Ocean and settling in London

• 1892 Rudyard Kipling married Caroline Balestier

• 1897 the Kiplings moved to Rottingdean on the British coast

• 1898 the Spanish-American War starts

• 1899 Boer War starts

• 19th century World War One starts

• 1907 he was awarded with a Nobel Prize in Literature; bookending this achievement was the publication of two connected poetry and story collections

• 1915 Eldest son john dies

• 1915 Became a part of the Sir Fabian Ware’s Imperial War Graves Commission

• 1926 he received the Gold Medal of Royal Society of Literature

• 1936 Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies of a brain hemorrhage

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