Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 December 1865
CityMumbai, India
desire fairy-tale tales
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
lying boys desire
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
desire drew king unto
King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.