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It Can Be Done

This book contains many poems of inspiration, joy and hope. Just the thing to encourage our spirits and strengthen our backbone when troubles seem too much. The purpose of this volume 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. 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. - Summary by Phil chenevert and the editors (7 hr 15 min)

Chapters

BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE - by Douglas Malloch

THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD - by Sam Walter Foss

FOUR THINGS - by Henry Van Dyke

IF - by Rudyard Kipling

INVICTUS - by William Ernest Henley

IT COULDN'T BE DONE - by Edgar A. Guest

THE WELCOME MAN - by Walt Mason

THE QUITTER - by Robert W. Service

FRIENDS OF MINE - by James W. Foley

THE WOMAN WHO UNDERSTANDS - by Everard Jack Appleton

WANTED - A MAN - by St. Clair Adams

IF I SHOULD DIE - by Ben King

JUST BE GLAD - by James Whitcomb Riley

OPPORTUNITY - by Berton Braley

SOLITUDE - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

UNSUBDUED - by S.E. Kiser

WORK - by Angela Morgan

HOW DID YOU DIE? - by Edmund Vance Cooke

A LESSON FROM HISTORY - by Joseph Morris

RABBI BEN EZRA - by Robert Browning

TO MELANCHOLY - by John Kendrick Bangs

THE LION PATH - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

THE ANSWER - by Grantland Rice

THE WORLD IS AGAINST ME - by Edgar A. Guest

SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVALETH - by Arthur Hugh Clough

WORTH WHILE - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

HOPE - by Anonymous

I'M GLAD - by Anonymous

THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS - by Oliver Wendell Holmes

PIPPA'S SONG - by Robert Browning

OWNERSHIP - by St. Clair Adams

A SMILING PARADOX - by John Kendrick Bangs

THE NEW DUCKLING - by Alfred Noyes

CAN YOU SING A SONG? - by Joseph Morris

KNOW THYSELF - by Angela Morgan

JUST WHISTLE - by Frank L. Stanton

''MIGHT HAVE BEEN'' - by Grantland Rice

THE ONE - by Everard Jack Appleton

THE JOY OF LIVING - by Gamaliel Bradford

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOMETHING TO DO - by Edgar A. Guest

GOOD INTENTIONS - by St. Clair Adams

PHILOSOPHY FOR CROAKERS - by Joseph Morris

THE FIGHTING FAILURE - by Everard Jack Appleton

DUTY - by Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE CALL OF THE UNBEATEN - by Grantland Rice

POLONIUS'S ADVICE TO LAERTES - by William Shakespeare

HOW DO YOU TACKLE YOUR WORK? - by Edgar A. Guest

MAN OR MANIKIN - by Richard Butler Glaenzer

HAVING DONE AND DOING - by William Shakespeare

FAITH - by S.E. Kiser

OPPORTUNITY - by John James Ingalls

OPPORTUNITY - by William Shakespeare

OPPORTUNITY - by Walter Malone

OPPORTUNITY - by Edward Rowland Sill

MY PHILOSOPHY - by James Whitcomb Riley

ULYSSES - by Alfred Tennyson

PREPAREDNESS - by Edwin Markham

THE WISDOM OF FOLLY - by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

SEE IT THROUGH - by Edgar A. Guest

DECEMBER 31 - by S.E. Kiser

RING OUT, WILD BELLS - by Alfred Tennyson

WORK - by Henry Van Dyke

START WHERE YOU STAND - by Berton Braley

A HOPEFUL BROTHER - by Frank L. Stanton

A SONG OF THANKSGIVING - by Angela Morgan

LOSE THE DAY LOITERING - by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PLAYING THE GAME - by Berton Braley

RESOLVE - by Berton Braley

WHEN NATURE WANTS A MAN - by Angela Morgan

ORDER AND THE BEES - by William Shakespeare

SELF DEPENDENCE - by Matthew Arnold

A LITTLE PRAYER - by S.E. Kiser

A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT - by Robert Burns

LIFE AND DEATH - by Anna Barbauld

LIFE AND DEATH - by Ernest H. Crosby

ON BEING READY - by Grantland Rice

TWO AT A FIRESIDE - by Edwin Markham

TO-DAY - by Douglas Malloch

THE ARROW AND THE SONG - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THE INNER LIGHT - by John Milton

THE THINGS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN DONE BEFORE - by Edgar A. Guest

THE HAS-BEENS - by Walt Mason

WISHING - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

AWARENESS - by Miriam Teichner

ONE OF THESE DAYS - by James W. Foley

GOD - by Gamaliel Bradford

MY TRIUMPH - by John Greenleaf Whittier

TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON - by Richard Lovelace

GRIEF - by Angela Morgan

THE RECTIFYING YEARS - by St. Clair Adams

TO THOSE WHO FAIL - by Joaquin Miller

HELPING' OUT - by William Judson Kibby

OPENING PARADISE - by Thomas Gray

TO THE MEN WHO LOSE - by Anonymous

IT MAY BE - by S.E. Kiser

LIFE - by Edward Rowland Sill

THE GRUMPY GUY - by Griffith Alexander

THE FIGHTER - by S.E. Kiser

TO YOUTH AFTER PAIN - by Margaret Widdemer

CAN'T - by Edgar A. Guest

THE STRUGGLE - by Miriam Teichner

HOLD FAST - by Everard Jack Appleton

WILL - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

THE GAME - by Grantland Rice

COURAGE - by Florence Earle Coates

A GOOD NAME - by William Shakespeare

SWELLITIS - by Joseph Morris

CARES - by Elisabeth Barrett Browning

FAITH - by Edward Rowland Sill

PLAYING THE GAME - by Anonymous

WHAT DARK DAYS DO - by Everard Jack Appleton

GLADNESS - by Anna Hempstead Branch

IT WON'T STAY BLOWED - by St. Clair Adams

THE RAINBOW - by William Wordsworth

THE FIRM OF GRIN AND BARRETT - by Sam Walter Foss

CHALLENGE - by Jean Nette

YOUR MISSION - by Ellen M.H. Gates

VICTORY - by Miriam Teichner

TIMES GO BY TURNS - by Robert Southwell

TO-DAY - by Thomas Carlyle

UNAFRAID - by Everard Jack Appleton

BORROWED FEATHERS - by Joseph Morris

KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON - by Anonymous

THE DISAPPOINTED - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

LET ME LIVE OUT MY YEARS - by John G. Neihardt

COLUMBUS - by Joaquin Miller

PER ASPERA - by Florence Earle Coates

TIT FOR TAT - by St. Clair Adams

THE KINGDOM OF MAN - by John Kendrick

ABOU BEN ADHEM - by Leigh Hunt

THIS WORLD - by Frank L. Stanton

GRAY DAYS - by Griffith Alexander

LAUGH A LITTLE BIT - by Edmund Vance Cooke

A SONG OF LIFE - by Angela Morgan

A POOR UNFORTUNATE - by Frank L. Stanton

THE TRAINERS - by Grantland Rice

LIFE - by Etta Wheeler Wilcox

A TOAST TO MERRIMENT - by James W. Foley

MISTRESS FATE - by William Rose Benét

SLEEP AND THE MONARCH - by William Shakespeare

NEVER TROUBLE TROUBLE - by St. Clair Adams

CLEAR THE WAY - by Charles Mackay

ONE FIGHT MORE - by Theodosia Garrison

A PSALM OF LIFE - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A CREED - by Edwin Markham

BATTLE CRY - by John G. Neihardt

THE HAPPY HEART - by Thomas Dekker

IF YOU CAN'T GO OVER OR UNDER, GO ROUND - by Joseph Morris

THICK IS THE DARKNESS - by William Ernest Henley

THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS - by William Shakespeare

THE CELESTIAL SURGEON - by Robert Louis Stevenson

MAN, BIRD, AND GOD - by Robert Browning

HIS ALLY - by William Rose Benét

SUBMISSION - by Miriam Teichner

A PRAYER - by Theodosia Garrison

STABILITY - by William Shakespeare

THE BARS OF FATE - by Ellen M.H. Gates

ULTIMATE ACT - by Henry Bryan Binns

HE WHOM A DREAM HATH POSSESSED - by Sheamus O Sheel

SUCCESS - by Berton Braley

PLAY THE GAME - by Henry Newbolt

THE MAN WHO FRETS AT WORLDLY STRIFE - by Joseph Rodman Drake

SERENITY - by Lord Byron

HERE'S HOPIN' - by Frank L. Stanton

CLEON AND I - by Charles Mackay

THE PESSIMIST - by Ben King

A PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED - by St. Clair Adams

PROSPICE - by Robert Browning

THE GREATNESS OF THE SOUL - by Alfred Tennyson

HEINELET - by Gamaliel Bradford

STAND FORTH! - by Angela Morgan

LIONS AND ANTS - by Walt Mason

LIFE, NOT DEATH - by Alfred Tennyson

THE UNMUSICAL SOLOIST - by Joseph Morris

ON DOWN THE ROAD - by Grantland Rice

MEETIN' TROUBLE - by Everard Jack Appleton

PRESS ON - by Park Benjamin

MY CREED - by S.E. Kiser

CO-OPERATION - by J. Mason Knox

THE NOBLE NATURE - by Ben Jonson

DAYS OF CHEER - by James W. Foley

DE SUNFLOWER AIN'T DE DAISY - by Anonymous

THE DAFFODILS - by William Wordsworth

A LITTLE THANKFUL SONG - by Frank L. Stanton

TWO RAINDROPS - by Joseph Morris

MY WAGE - by Jessie B. Rittenhouse

THE GIFT - by Robert Burns

PROMETHEUS UNBOUND - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

VICTORY IN DEFEAT - by Edwin Markham

THE RICHER MINES - by John Kendrick Bangs

BRAVE LIFE - by Grantland Rice

A SONG OF TO-MORROW - by Frank L. Stanton

THE GLAD SONG - by Joseph Morris

PAINTING THE LILY - by William Shakespeare

A PRETTY GOOD WORLD - by Frank L. Stanton

ODE TO DUTY - by William Wordsworth

THE SYNDICATED SMILE - by St. Clair Adams

FAIRY SONG - by John Keats

PRAISE THE GENEROUS GODS FOR GIVING - by William Ernest Henley

COWARDS - by William Shakespeare

THE WORD - by John Kendrick Bangs

ENVOI - by John G. Neihardt

JAW - by St. Clair Adams

THE CONQUEROR - by Berton Braley

IS IT RAINING, LITTLE FLOWER? - by Anonymous

GRADATIM - by J.G. Holland

RULES FOR THE ROAD - by Edwin Markham

LIFE - by Griffith Alexander

HOE YOUR ROW - by Frank L. Stanton

BORROWING TROUBLE - by Robert Burns

UNDISMAYED - by James W. Foley

A HERO - by Florence Earle Coates

WILL - by Alfred Tennyson

FABLE - by Ralph Waldo Emerson

DUTY - by Edwin Markham

PRAYER FOR PAIN - by John G. Neihardt

STEADFAST - by Everard Jack Appleton

IF - by John Kendrick Bangs

THE GIFTS OF GOD - by George Herbert

A PHILOSOPHER - by John Kendrick Bangs

THE LIFE WITHOUT PASSION - by William Shakespeare

CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE - by Sir Henry Wotton

ESSENTIALS - by St. Clair Adams

THE STONE REJECTED - by Edwin Markham

GOOD DEEDS - by William Shakespeare

YOU MAY COUNT THAT DAY - by George Eliot

SADNESS AND MERRIMENT - by William Shakespeare

APPRECIATION - by William Judson Kibby

KEEP SWEET - by Strickland W. Gillilan

MORALITY - by Matthew Arnold

A HYMN TO HAPPINESS - by James W. Foley

OPPORTUNITY - by Edwin Markham

TO A YOUNG MAN - by Edgar A. Guest

SLOGAN - by Jane M'Lean

SMILES - by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

SIT DOWN, SAD SOUL - by Bryan Waller Procter

SONG OF ENDEAVOR - by James W. Foley

KEEP A-GOIN'! - by Frank L. Stanton

WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED - by Rudyard Kipling