 Poems
Now you may not be able to tell by looking at me but deep down I like poems. Some are a bit rude but I love good poems and verses, so here is one of my favs I found in a book that I came across in the library.
IF By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming iton you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating
and yet don't look too good, not talk to wise,
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master
If you can think- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to' broken,and stoop and build em up with worn- out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings
and never breathe a word about your loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
Exept the will which says to them "Hold on"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
and- which is more-you'll be a Man,my son!
I like the lancashire poems with Albert and the lion etc but can't find them, does anyone else like poems??  |