It Can Be Done Poems of InspirationThis is a volume of inspirational poems. Its purpose is to bring men courage and resolution, to cheer them, to fire them with new confidence when they grow dispirited, to strengthen their faith that THINGS CAN BE DONE. It is better for this purpose than the entire works of any one poet, for it takes the cream of many and has greater diversity than any one writer can show. |
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“I have not yet begun to fight,” was his answer. When the surrender took place, it was not Jones's ship that became the prize of war. Everybody admires a hard fighter—the man who takes buffets standing up, and in a spirit of “Never say ...
“I have not yet begun to fight,” was his answer. When the surrender took place, it was not Jones's ship that became the prize of war. Everybody admires a hard fighter—the man who takes buffets standing up, and in a spirit of “Never say ...
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But the code of a man says fight all you can, And self-dissolution is barred; In hunger and woe, oh it's easy to blow— It's the hell served for breakfast that's hard. You're sick of the game? Well now, that's a shame!
But the code of a man says fight all you can, And self-dissolution is barred; In hunger and woe, oh it's easy to blow— It's the hell served for breakfast that's hard. You're sick of the game? Well now, that's a shame!
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It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts; It's how did you fight—and why? And though you be done to the death, what then? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call ...
It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts; It's how did you fight—and why? And though you be done to the death, what then? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call ...
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Fighting upon the terror field Where man and Fate came breast to breast, Prest by a thousand foes to yield, ... O Life— The strongest spirit soon must break Before this all-unequal strife, This endless fight for failure's sake!
Fighting upon the terror field Where man and Fate came breast to breast, Prest by a thousand foes to yield, ... O Life— The strongest spirit soon must break Before this all-unequal strife, This endless fight for failure's sake!
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But in his sapient eyes I saw the spirit that had urged him on, The courage that had held him through the fight Had once been mine, I thought, “Can it be gone?” He felt that unasked question—felt it so His pale lips formed the one-word ...
But in his sapient eyes I saw the spirit that had urged him on, The courage that had held him through the fight Had once been mine, I thought, “Can it be gone?” He felt that unasked question—felt it so His pale lips formed the one-word ...
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