If— BY RUDYARD KIPLING(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies) 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 liedContinue reading “If : Rudyard Kipling : : School Poems : :”
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The Prodigal Son : (Western Version) : Rudyard Kipling : : Sons Poems : :
Here come I to my own again, Fed, forgiven. and known again, Claimed by bone of my bone again And cheered by flesh of my flesh. The fatted calf is dressed for me, But the husks have greater zest for me, I think my pigs will be best for me, So I’m off to theContinue reading “The Prodigal Son : (Western Version) : Rudyard Kipling : : Sons Poems : :”
Mother o’ Mine : Rudyard Kipling : : Mother Poems : :
Mother o’ MineRudyard Kipling – 1865-1936 If I were hanged on the highest hill,Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!I know whose love would follow me still,Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea,Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!I know whose tears would come down to me,MotherContinue reading “Mother o’ Mine : Rudyard Kipling : : Mother Poems : :”