Judd, Denis. Diamonds are forever: Kipling's imperialism; poems of Rudyard Kipling. History Today. June 1997, 47 (6): 37.: "Theodore Roosevelt...thought the verses 'rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansionist stand-point'. Henry Cabot Lodge told Roosevelt in turn: 'I like it. I think it is better poetry than you say'."
Crosby, Ernest. The Real White Man’s Burden. Funk and Wagnalls Company. 1902: 32–35 [2013-05-31]. (原始内容存档于2017-10-12). Published online by History Matters, American Social History Project, CUNY and George Mason University.
Crosby, Ernest. The Real White Man’s Burden. Funk and Wagnalls Company. 1902: 32–35 [2013-05-31]. (原始内容存档于2017-10-12). Published online by History Matters, American Social History Project, CUNY and George Mason University.