Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REWARDS AND FAIRIES, by ROGER WODDIS Poet's Biography First Line: If you can sleep when those who write about you Last Line: And which is more you'll make a mint, my son! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) | ||||||||
If you can sleep when those who write about you Are buried deep in serious research, If scholars who proclaim your work and spout you Ascribe it to the slipper and the birch; If you are drawn to men with muscles rippling, And fancy brawn, according to the myth, You might, when all is said, think more of Kipling, And rather less of Martin Seymour-Smith. If you can bear to wallow in a mudyard, And pig it there with academic fools, If you can snigger, when you rubbish Rudyard, At what goes on in English public schools; If you can prove a saint is made of plaster, Or dare to claim an honoured name undone, Your work of art will make the heart beat faster, And which is more you'll make a mint, my son! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO R.K. by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN P. C., X, 36 by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM FOR A NOVEL OF HALL CAINE'S by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) A BALLAD IN THE MANNER OF R-DY-RD K-PL-NG by GUY WETMORE CARRYL POST-RECESSIONAL by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON HERE IS THE TALE; AFTER RUDYARD KIPLING by ANTHONY C. DEANE RECRUITING SONG by MICHAEL FOSTER (20TH CENTURY) FREEDOM IS IN PERIL by OLGA KATZIN TO RUDYARD KIPLING by JOHN MASEFIELD |
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