It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration | Page 2

of Living, The......................... Gamaliel Bradford
Just Be Glad............................... James Whitcomb Riley
Just Whistle............................... Frank L. Stanton

Keep A-Goin'!.............................. Frank L. Stanton
Keep On Keepin' On......................... Anonymous
Keep Sweet................................. Strickland W. Gillilan
Kingdom of Man, The........................ John Kendrick Bangs
Know Thyself............................... Angela Morgan

Laugh a Little Bit......................... Edmund Vance Cooke
Lesson from History, A..................... Joseph Morris
Let Me Live Out My Years................... John G. Neihardt
Life....................................... Griffith Alexander
Life....................................... Edward Rowland Sill
Life....................................... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life and Death............................. Anna Barbauld
Life and Death............................. Ernest H. Crosby
Life, not Death............................ Alfred Tennyson
Life Without Passion....................... William Shakespeare
Lion Path, The............................. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lions and Ants............................. Walt Mason
Little Prayer, A........................... S.E. Kiser
Little Thankful Song, A.................... Frank L. Stanton
Lose the Day Loitering..................... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man, Bird, and God......................... Robert Browning
Man or Manikin............................. Richard Butler Glaenzer
Man's a Man for A' That, A................. Robert Burns
Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife, The....... Joseph Rodman Drake
Meetin' Trouble............................ Everard Jack Appleton
"Might Have Been".......................... Grantland Rice
Mistress Fate.............................. _William Rose Ben��t_
Morality................................... Matthew Arnold
My Creed................................... S.E. Kiser
My Philosophy.............................. James Whitcomb Riley
My Triumph................................. John Greenleaf Whittier
My Wage.................................... Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Never Trouble Trouble...................... St. Clair Adams
New Duckling, The.......................... Alfred Noyes
Noble Nature, The.......................... Ben Jonson

Ode to Duty................................ William Wordsworth
On Being Ready............................. Grantland Rice
On Down the Road........................... Grantland Rice
One Fight More............................. Theodosia Garrison
One of These Days.......................... James W. Foley
One, The................................... Everard Jack Appleton
Opening Paradise........................... Thomas Gray
Opportunity................................ Berton Braley
Opportunity................................ John James Ingalls
Opportunity................................ Walter Malone
Opportunity................................ Edwin Markham
Opportunity................................ William Shakespeare
Opportunity................................ Edward Rowland Sill
Order and the Bees......................... William Shakespeare
Ownership.................................. St. Clair Adams

Painting the Lily.......................... William Shakespeare
Per Aspera................................. Florence Earle Coates
Pessimist, The............................. Ben King
Philosopher, A............................. John Kendrick Bangs
Philosophy for Croakers.................... Joseph Morris
Pippa's Song............................... Robert Browning
Playing the Game........................... Anonymous
Playing the Game........................... Berton Braley
Play the Game.............................. Henry Newbolt
Polonius's Advice to Laertes............... William Shakespeare
Poor Unfortunate, A........................ Frank L. Stanton
Praise the Generous Gods for Giving........ William Ernest Henley
Prayer, A.................................. Theodosia Garrison
Prayer for Pain............................ John G. Neihardt
Preparedness............................... Edwin Markham
Press On................................... Park Benjamin
Pretty Good World, A....................... Frank L. Stanton
Problem to Be Solved, A.................... St. Clair Adams
Prometheus Unbound......................... Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prospice................................... Robert Browning
Psalm of Life, A........................... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quitter, The............................... Robert W. Service

Rabbi Ben Ezra............................. Robert Browning
Rainbow, The............................... William Wordsworth
Rectifying Years, The...................... St. Clair Adams
Resolve.................................... Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Richer Mines, The.......................... John Kendrick Bangs
Ring Out, Wild Bells....................... Alfred Tennyson
Rules for the Road......................... Edwin Markham

Sadness and Merriment...................... William Shakespeare
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth....... Arthur Hugh Clough
See It Through............................. Edgar A. Guest
Self-Dependence............................ Matthew Arnold
Serenity................................... Lord Byron
Sit Down, Sad Soul......................... Bryan Waller Procter
Sleep and the Monarch...................... William Shakespeare
Slogan..................................... Jane M'Lean
Smiles..................................... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Smiling Paradox, A......................... John Kendrick Bangs
Solitude................................... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Song of Endeavor........................... James W. Foley
Song of Life, A............................ Angela Morgan
Song of Thanksgiving, A.................... Angela Morgan
Song of To-morrow, A....................... Frank L. Stanton
Stability.................................. William Shakespeare
Stand Forth!............................... Angela Morgan
Start Where You Stand...................... Bert on Braley
Steadfast.................................. Everard Jack Appleton
Stone Rejected, The........................ Edwin Markham
Struggle, The.............................. Miriam Teichner
Submission................................. Miriam Teichner
Success.................................... Berton Braley
Swellitis.................................. Joseph Morris
Syndicated Smile, The...................... St. Clair Adams
There Will Always Be Something to Do....... Edgar A. Guest Thick Is the Darkness...................... William Ernest Henley Things That Haven't Been Done Before, The.. Edgar A. Guest
This World................................. Frank L. Stanton
Times Go by Turns.......................... Robert Southwell
Tit for Tat................................ St. Clair Adams
To Althea from Prison...................... Richard Lovelace
Toast to Merriment, A...................... James W. Foley
To a Young Man............................. Edgar A. Guest
To-day..................................... Thomas Carlyle
To-day..................................... Douglas Malloch
To Melancholy.............................. John Kendrick Bangs
To the Men Who Lose........................ Anonymous
To Those Who Fail.......................... Joaquin Miller
To Youth After Pain........................ Margaret Widdemer
Trainers, The.............................. Grantland Rice
Two at a Fireside.......................... Edwin Markham
Two Raindrops.............................. Joseph Morris

Ultimate Act............................... Henry Bryan Binns
Ulysses.................................... Alfred Tennyson
Unafraid................................... Everard Jack Appleton
Undismayed................................. James W. Foley
Unmusical Soloist, The..................... Joseph Morris
Unsubdued.................................. S.E. Kiser

Victory.................................... Miriam Teichner
Victory in Defeat.......................... Edwin Markham

Wanted--a Man.............................. St. Clair Adams
Welcome Man, The........................... Walt Mason
What Dark Days Do.......................... Everard Jack Appleton
When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted....... Rudyard Kipling
When Nature Wants a Man.................... Angela Morgan
Will....................................... Alfred Tennyson
Will....................................... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wisdom of Folly, The....................... Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
Wishing.................................... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Woman Who Understands, The................. Everard Jack Appleton
Word, The.................................. John Kendrick Bangs
Work....................................... Angela Morgan
Work....................................... Henry Van Dyke
World Is Against Me, The................... Edgar A. Guest
Worth While................................ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You May Count That Day..................... George Eliot
Your Mission............................... Ellen M.H. Gates
IT CAN BE DONE
BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE
We all dream of great deeds and high positions, away from the pettiness and humdrum of ordinary life. Yet success is not occupying a lofty place or doing conspicuous work; it is being the best that is in you. Rattling around in too big a job is much worse than filling a small one to overflowing. Dream, aspire by all means; but do not ruin the life you must lead by dreaming pipe-dreams of the one you would like to lead. Make the most of what you have and are. Perhaps your trivial, immediate task is your one sure way of proving your mettle. Do the thing near at hand, and great things will come to your hand to be done.
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill?Be a scrub in the valley--but be?The best little scrub by the side of the rill;?Be a bush if you can't