Many of the poems by Edgar Guest (1881-1959) are encouraging and share important life lessons. If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it, If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,Ĭan turn you away from the thing that you want, If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.įaith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity, Lose all your terror of God or man for it, If life seems all empty and useless without itĪnd all that you scheme and you dream is about it, Berton Braley (1882-1966) was an American poet who completed high school in only two years. We must put in the necessary work and make sacrifices to achieve our goals. When we want something, we must be willing to fight for it. Indeed, he led a meaningful life as a poet and editor until he passed away at age 53. The poem, which he wrote while healing from the amputation, is a testimony to his refusal to let his handicap disrupt his life. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), an English Poet, had one of his legs amputated at the age of 17. This famous inspirational poem charges us to accept responsibility for our lives no matter our circumstances. We are responsible for our own happiness. The more the storm, the more the strength. He wrote his first published poem when he was still a boy it was published in the Detroit News. Malloch lived in Michigan where he grew up amongst logging camps and lumber yards. It is only through struggles, like a tree fighting through forest growth to reach the sun, that we grow and discover our true potential. The message of this poem is that people, like trees, grow and reach their true potential by overcoming adversity. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,Īnd - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!ĭouglas Malloch (1877-1938), known as the "Lumbermen's Poet," compares good men to good timber in this famous metaphorical poem. With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, If all men count with you, but none too much: If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, To serve your turn long after they are gone,Īnd so hold on when there is nothing in youĮxcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew If you can make one heap of all your winningsĪnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,Īnd lose, and start again at your beginnings,Īnd never breathe a word about your loss: Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,Īnd stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same. If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim, If you can dream - and not make dreams your master Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,Īnd yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too: If you can keep your head when all about you The poem's line, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same," is written on the wall of the players' entrance at Wimbledon. Rudyard Kipling was an English poet who lived from 1865-1936.
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