Yes, he often did. Much reviled by the literati, but he spoke to the heart didn’t he? I used to have an anthology of his works that my grandmother gave me, but it was lost to water damage.
The ‘beauty’ of a computer.
All the ‘Great Works’ and ‘Masterpieces’ a simple click away.
Even now available on your phone.....Amazing....
Shame a good number of those that really know how to ‘work these contraptions’ don’t have a clue as to what they are ‘missing’...
Admittedly I wasn’t a ‘fan’ of talking books, much less books on line but when it comes to art, literature etc the ease is there.
Finishing my 24 celcius year, I will have to call this my ‘Spirit of ‘76’ Year....
Further proof that one can learn something ‘new’ on a regular basis.
Like I say
“As long as one is green, one keeps growing. Once one gets too ripe, the only thing left is to rot on the vine”.
Look down thee left side of
http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/
A Diversity of Creatures
Actions and Reactions
Captains Courageous
Indian Tales
Kim
Life’s Handicap
Puck of Pook’s Hill
Stalky & Co.
The Jungle Book
The Light That Failed
The Second Jungle Book
The Story of the Gadsbys
Non-Fiction
American Notes
France At War
Letters of Travel
Poetry Books
Barrack-Room Ballads
Short Stories
The Beginning of the Armadillos
The Butterfly that Stamped
The Cat that Walked by Himself
The Crab that Played with the Sea
The Elephant’s Child
How the Alphabet was Made
How the Camel Got His Hump
How the First Letter was Written
How the Leopard Got His spots
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
How the Whale Got His Throat
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Bridge-Builders
The Man Who Would Be King
The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
‘The Finest Story in the World’
With the Main Guard
Wee Willie Winkie
The Story of Muhammad Din
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
The Taking of Lungtungpen
The Phantom Rickshaw
The Solid Muldoon
The Three Musketeers
Beyond the Pale
The God from the Machine
The Daughter of the Regiment
Poetry
A Pilgrim’s Way
An Almanac of Twelve Sports
Cells
Cities And Thrones And Powers
Danny Deever
Dedication
Edgehill Fight
Fuzzy-wuzzy
Gunga Din
If
Loot
My Boy Jack
Recessional
Screw-guns
Soldier, Soldier
The Answer
The Ballad Of East And West
The Disciple
The Explanation
The Female Of The Species
The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
The Legend Of Evil
The Lost Legion
The Miracles
The Power Of The Dog
The Song Of The Dead
The Sons Of Martha
The Vampire
The White Man’s Burden
To Wolcott Balestier
Tommy
When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted