It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration

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Title: It Can Be Done
Poems of Inspiration
Author: Joseph Morris
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Language: English
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IT CAN BE DONE
POEMS OF INSPIRATION
COLLECTED BY
JOSEPH MORRIS and ST. CLAIR ADAMS
FOREWORD
This 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.
It is made up chiefly of very recent poems--not such as were written for
anthologies of poetical "gems," but such as speak directly to the heart,
always in very simple language, often in the phrases of shop or office
or street. Included, however, with the poems of the day are a few of the
fine old pieces that have been of comfort to men through the ages.
Besides the poems themselves, the volume contains helps to their
understanding and enjoyment. The pieces are introduced by short
comments; these serve the same purpose as the strain played by the
pianist before the singer begins to sing; they create a mood, give a point
of view, throw light on the meaning of what follows. Also the lives of
the authors are briefly summarized; this is in answer to our natural
interest in the writer of a poem we like, and in the case of living poets it
brings together facts hardly to be found anywhere else.
Finally, the book is not one to be read and then cast aside. It is to be
kept as a constant companion and an unfailing recourse in weariness or
gloom. Human companions are not always in the mood to cheer us, and
may talk upon themes we dislike. But this book will converse or be
silent, it is never out of sorts or discouraged, and so far from being wed
to some single topic, it will speak to us at any time on any subject we
desire.
To many authors and publishers acknowledgment is due for generous
permission to use copyright material.
CONTENTS
Abou Ben Adhem............................. Leigh
Hunt
Answer, The................................
Grantland Rice
Appreciation...............................
William Judson Kibby
Arrow and the Song, The.................... Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow

Awareness..................................
Miriam Teichner

Bars of Fate, The.......................... Ellen
M.H. Gates
Battle Cry................................. John G.
Neihardt
Belly and the Members, The................. William
Shakespeare
Be the Best of Whatever You Are............ Douglas
Malloch
Borrowed Feathers.......................... Joseph
Morris
Borrowing Trouble.......................... Robert
Burns
Brave Life.................................
Grantland Rice

Call of the Unbeaten, The.................. Grantland
Rice
Can't...................................... Edgar
A. Guest
Can You Sing a Song?....................... Joseph
Morris
Cares......................................
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Celestial Surgeon, The..................... Robert
Louis Stevenson
Challenge.................................. Jean
Nette
Chambered Nautilus, The.................... Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Character of a Happy Life.................. Sir Henry
Wotton
Clear the Way.............................. Charles
Mackay
Cleon and I................................ Charles
Mackay

Columbus...................................
Joaquin Miller
Conqueror, The............................. Berton
Braley
Co-operation............................... J.
Mason Knox
Courage....................................
_Florence Earle Coates
Cowards....................................
William Shakespeare
Creed, A................................... Edwin
Markham

Daffodils, The............................. William
Wordsworth
Days of Cheer.............................. James
W. Foley
December 31................................ S.E.
Kiser
De Sunflower Ain't de Daisy................
Anonymous
Disappointed, The.......................... Ella
Wheeler Wilcox
Duty....................................... Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Duty....................................... Edwin
Markham

Envoi...................................... John
G. Neihardt
Essentials................................. St.
Clair Adams

Fable...................................... Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Fairy Song................................. John
Keats
Faith...................................... S.E.

Kiser
Faith......................................
Edward Rowland Sill
Fighter, The............................... S.E.
Kiser
Fighting Failure, The...................... Everard
Jack Appleton
Firm of Grin and Barrett, The.............. Sam
Walter Foss
Four Things................................ Henry
Van Dyke
Friends of Mine............................ James
W. Foley

Game, The..................................
Grantland Rice
Gifts of God, The.......................... George
Herbert
Gift, The.................................. Robert
Burns
Gladness................................... Anna
Hempstead Branch
Glad Song, The............................. Joseph
Morris
God........................................
Gamaliel Bradford
Good Deeds................................. William
Shakespeare
Good Intentions............................ St.
Clair Adams
Good Name, A............................... William
Shakespeare
Gradatim................................... G.
Holland
Gray Days.................................. Griffith
Alexander
Greatness of the Soul, The................. Alfred
Tennyson

Grief......................................
Angela Morgan
Grumpy Guy, The............................ Griffith
Alexander

Happy Heart, The........................... Thomas
Dekker
Has-Beens, The............................. Walt
Mason
Having Done and Doing...................... William
Shakespeare
Heinelet...................................
Gamaliel Bradford
Helpin' Out................................ William
Judson Kibby
Here's Hopin'.............................. Frank
L. Stanton
Hero, A....................................
Florence Earle Coates
He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed............. Sheamus
O Sheel
His Ally...................................
_William Rose Benét_
Hoe Your Row............................... Frank
L. Stanton
Hold