Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
The poet Alison Brackenbury wrote that ”Kipling is poetry’s Dickens, an outsider and journalist with an unrivalled ear for sound and speech.”
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Poems by Rudyard Kipling

If

Mandalay

Recessional

The Female of the Species

The Way Through the Woods