The older I get them more dark and critical his poetry sounds. If is wisdom incarnate. The poem conveyed a shamanistic view of wisdom as "walking between the worlds", that we ought to stay from anger and resentment of others while not collapsing into the other extreme of escapism. I found this to be pure wisdom from my study of philosophy and i will sure to use it when instruct.

Witty, profound, wildly funny, acerbic and occasionally savage, Rudyard Kipling's poems continue to delight readers of all ages.

Rudyard Kipling ( 30 December 1865–18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,

And the women come out to cut up what remains,

Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains

An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

• TO WOLCOTT BALESTIER

• BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

• DANNY DEEVER

• TOMMY

• "FUZZY-WUZZY"

• SOLDIER, SOLDIER

• SCREW-GUNS

• CELLS

• GUNGA DIN

• OONTS

• LOOT

• "SNARLEYOW"

• THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR

• BELTS

• THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER

• MANDALAY

• TROOPIN'

• THE WIDOW'S PARTY

• FORD O' KABUL RIVER

• GENTLEMEN-RANKERS

• ROUTE MARCHIN'

• SHILLIN' A DAY

• GAWD SAVE THE QUEEN.

• THE LAST SUTTEE

• THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S MERCY

• THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE

• WITH SCINDIA TO DELHI

• THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE

• THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER CATTLE THIEF

• THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS

• THE BALLAD OF THE "CLAMPHERDOWN"

• THE BALLAD OF THE "CLAMPHERDOWN"

• THE SACRIFICE OF ER-HEB

• THE EXPLANATION

• THE GIFT OF THE SEA

• EVARRA AND HIS GODSTHE GIFT OF THE SEA

• THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS

• THE LEGEND OF EVIL

• THE ENGLISH FLAG

• "CLEARED"

• AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT

• TOMLINSON

• L'ENVOI TO "LIFE'S HANDICAP"

• THE SEVEN SEAS

• AUCKLAND

• THE LAST CHANTEY

• M'ANDREW'S HYMN

• THE MIRACLES

• THE KING

• THE DERELICT

• THE ANSWER

• THE SONG OF THE BANJO

• THE LINER SHE'S A LADY

• MULHOLLAND'S CONTRACT

• ANCHOR SONG

• THE LOST LEGION

• THE SEA-WIFE

• HYMN BEFORE ACTION

• TO THE TRUE ROMANCE

• THE FLOWERS

• THE LAST RHYME OF TRUE THOMAS

• IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE

• THE STORY OF UNG

• THE THREE-DECKER

• AN AMERICAN

• THE "MARY GLOSTER"

• BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

• "BIRDS OF PREY" MARCH

• "SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO"

• SAPPERS

• THAT DAY

• THE LADIES

• BILL 'AWKINS

• THE MOTHER-LODGE

• THE SERGEANT'S WEDDIN'

• THE JACKET

• THE 'EATHEN

• THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY

• "MARY, PITY WOMEN!"

• L'ENVOI