Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1865. He spent much of his childhood and adult life in England and America, but traveled back to India and to South Africa as a journalist. His works include Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1886), The Rhyme of True Thomas (1894), Mandalay (1898), The Five Nations (1903), The Muse among the Motors (1904), A Patrol Song (1909), The Children's Song (1914), The Scholars (1919), O the Companions (1933), and Hymn of the Breaking Strain (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He also received the Gold Medal of Royal society of Literature, among other honors. He refused to become England’s Poet Laureate in 1895 and also refused the Order of Merit award. He died in 1936.

POEMS
Harp Song of the Dane Women
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The Secret of the Machines