Poets/Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

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For all we have and are, …

Rudyard Kipling

They bear, in place of classic names, …

Rudyard Kipling

The ships destroy us above …

Rudyard Kipling

"This is the State above the Law. …

Rudyard Kipling

Rome never looks where she treads. …

Rudyard Kipling

‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?' said Files-on-Parade. …

Rudyard Kipling

“equality of sacrifice” …

Rudyard Kipling

The Garden called Gethsemane …

Rudyard Kipling

You may talk o’ gin and beer …

Rudyard Kipling

What is a woman that you forsake her, …

Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you …

Rudyard Kipling

Across a world where all men grieve …

Rudyard Kipling

They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, …

Rudyard Kipling

God of our fathers, known of old, …

Rudyard Kipling

Speakin’ in general, I ’ave tried ’em all— …

Rudyard Kipling

We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low. …

Rudyard Kipling

They christened my brother of old— …

Rudyard Kipling

Ah! What avails the classic bent …

Rudyard Kipling

These were our children who died for our lands: they were dear in our sight. …

Rudyard Kipling

Over the edge of the purple down, …

Rudyard Kipling

There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, …

Rudyard Kipling

We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, …

Rudyard Kipling

You couldn’t pack a Broadwood half a mile— …

Rudyard Kipling

Not in the thick of the fight, …

Rudyard Kipling

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