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Rudyard Kipling's poetry, including 'If,' is known for its didactic and moralistic tone. His poetry often imparts life lessons and wisdom, aiming to guide readers towards ethical and virtuous behavior.
1865–1936. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. Although he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, his political views, which grew more toxic as he aged, have long made him critically unpopular.
Including the juvenilia and unpublished poems written in England and India, researched in the 1980s by Andrew Rutherford, and now included in the comprehensive Cambridge Edition of 2013 edited by Thomas Pinney. For the published verse we have relied on the Definitive Edition (1940), and for the early unpublished verse on Rutherford (1986). We have not included various verse fragments and later ...
Rudyard Kipling. 1865 –. 1936. 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,
Rudyard Kipling Poems. Here are some of Rudyard Kipling's most famous poems: "If-": This poem is perhaps Kipling's best-known work and is a meditation on the qualities of leadership and character. It begins: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."
By Rudyard Kipling. 1914. 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.
(MODERN MACHINERY) We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit— We were cast and wrought and hammered to design, We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit. Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask, And a thousandth of an inch to give us play: And now, if you will set us to our task,
