2006-10-02 08:44:01 · 11 answers · asked by Rob H 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
IF - by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on 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, nor talk too 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 impostors 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 all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath 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
Except 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!
2006-10-02 08:46:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Rudyard Kipling poem called "If" I have this poem in my bag, I take it everywhere. If I am sitting waiting for someone and am bored I get it out and read it and I can always find inspiration in it.
2006-10-02 12:23:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If by Rudyard Kipling
2006-10-02 23:24:24 · answer #3 · answered by Valli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If by Rudyard Kipling
2006-10-02 09:16:33 · answer #4 · answered by tyreanpurple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'If' by Rudyard Kipling. I heard it recently and it is a far better poem, deeper and more profound, than I had remembered. He is probably an author worth re-investigating.
2006-10-02 22:45:14 · answer #5 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the last line of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling.
2006-10-02 08:47:32 · answer #6 · answered by Elsa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If by Rudyard Kipling.
It contains those lines which are written above the gate at Wimbledon - 'if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters both the same'.
2006-10-06 03:29:05 · answer #7 · answered by skaters mam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'If' bu Rudyard Kipling.
The first line is
If you can keep your head when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
It is a quality poem
2006-10-04 04:35:31 · answer #8 · answered by boomching 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If", by Rudyard Kipling
2006-10-02 11:33:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its kipling
2006-10-05 03:01:47 · answer #10 · answered by lodeemae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋