It can be done. 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. - Summary by the Authors
Chapters
1 Foreword 3 min 2 Abou Ben Adhem BY Leigh Hunt 3 min 3 The Answer BY Grantland Rice 3 min 4 Appreciation BY William Judson Kibby 3 min 5 The Arrow and the Song BY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 6 Awareness BY Miriam Teichner 2 min 7 The Bars of Fate BY Ellen M.H. Gates 3 min 8 Battle Cry BY John G. Neihardt 2 min 9 The Belly and the Members BY William Shakespeare 4 min 10 Be the Best of Whatever You Are BY Douglas Malloch 2 min 11 Borrowed Feathers BY Joseph Morris 3 min 12 Borrowing Trouble BY Robert Burns 1 min 13 Brave Life BY Grantland Rice 4 min 14 The Call of the Unbeaten BY Grantland Rice 2 min 15 Can't BY Edgar A. Guest 4 min 16 Can You Sing a Song? BY Joseph Morris 1 min 17 Cares BY Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2 min 18 The Celestial Surgeon BY Robert Louis Stevenson 1 min 19 Challenge BY Jean Nette 1 min 20 The Chambered Nautilus BY Oliver Wendell Holmes 4 min 21 Character of a Happy Life BY Sir Henry Wotton 3 min 22 Clear the Way BY Charles Mackay 2 min 23 Cleon and I BY Charles Mackay 3 min 24 Columbus BY Joaquin Miller 4 min 25 The Conqueror BY Berton Braley 3 min 26 Co-operation BY J. Mason Knox 1 min 27 Courage BY Florence Earle Coates 1 min 28 Cowards BY William Shakespeare 1 min 29 A Creed BY Edwin Markham 1 min 30 The Daffodils BY William Wordsworth 2 min 31 Days of Cheer BY James W. Foley 3 min 32 December 31 BY S.E. Kiser 2 min 33 De Sunflower Ain't de Daisy BY Anonymous 2 min 34 The Disappointed BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox 3 min 35 Duty BY Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 min 36 Duty BY Edwin Markham 1 min 37 Envoi BY John G. Neihardt 2 min 38 Essentials BY St. Clair Adams 1 min 39 Fable BY Ralph Waldo Emerson 2 min 40 Fairy Song BY John Keats 2 min 41 Faith BY S.E. Kiser 1 min 42 Faith BY Edward Rowland Sill 3 min 43 The Fighter BY S.E. Kiser 3 min 44 The Fighting Failure BY Everard Jack Appleton 4 min 45 The Firm of Grin and Barrett BY Sam Walter Foss 3 min 46 Four Things BY Henry Van Dyke 1 min 47 Friends of Mine BY James W. Foley 2 min 48 The Game BY Grantland Rice 3 min 49 The Gifts of God BY George Herbert 2 min 50 The Gift BY Robert Burns 1 min 51 Gladness BY Anna Hempstead Branch 2 min 52 The Glad Song BY Joseph Morris 1 min 53 God BY Gamaliel Bradford 1 min 54 Good Deeds BY William Shakespeare 1 min 55 Good Intentions BY St. Clair Adams 2 min 56 A Good Name BY William Shakespeare 2 min 57 Gradatim BY G. Holland 3 min 58 Gray Days BY Griffith Alexander 2 min 59 The Greatness of the Soul BY Alfred Tennyson 2 min 60 Grief BY Angela Morgan 2 min 61 The Grumpy Guy BY Griffith Alexander 4 min 62 The Happy Heart BY Thomas Dekker 2 min 63 The Has-Beens BY Walt Mason 2 min 64 Having Done and Doing BY William Shakespeare 4 min 65 Heinelet BY Gamaliel Bradford 1 min 66 Helpin' Out BY William Judson Kibby 3 min 67 Here's Hopin' BY Frank L. Stanton 2 min 68 A Hero BY Florence Earle Coates 2 min 69 He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed BY Sheamus O Sheel 2 min 70 His Ally BY William Rose Benét 2 min 71 Hoe Your Row BY Frank L. Stanton 1 min 72 Hold Fast BY Everard Jack Appleton 3 min 73 Hope BY Anonymous 2 min 74 A Hopeful Brother BY Frank L. Stanton 2 min 75 The House by the Side of the Road BY Sam Walter Foss 3 min 76 How Did You Die? BY Edmund Vance Cooke 2 min 77 How Do You Tackle Your Work? BY Edgar A. Guest 2 min 78 A Hymn to Happiness BY James W. Foley 2 min 79 If BY John Kendrick Bangs 3 min 80 If BY Rudyard Kipling 4 min 81 If I Should Die BY Ben King 2 min 82 If You Can't Go Over or Under, Go Round BY Joseph Morris 3 min 83 I'm Glad BY Anonymous 1 min 84 The Inner Light BY John Milton 1 min 85 Invictus BY William Ernest Henley 1 min 86 Is It Raining, Little Flower? By Anonymous 1 min 87 It Couldn't Be Done BY Edgar A. Guest 3 min 88 It May Be BY S.E. Riser 1 min 89 It Won't Stay Blowed BY St. Clair Adams 3 min 90 Jaw BY St. Clair Adams 2 min 91 The Joy of Living BY Gamaliel Bradford 2 min 92 Just Be Glad BY James Whitcomb Riley 2 min 93 Just Whistle BY Frank L. Stanton 2 min 94 Keep A-Goin'! BY Frank L. Stanton 2 min 95 Keep On Keepin' On BY Anonymous 2 min 96 Keep Sweet BY Strickland W. Gillilan 2 min 97 The Kingdom of Man BY John Kendrick Bangs 2 min 98 Know Thyself BY Angela Morgan 5 min 99 Laugh a Little Bit BY Edmund Vance Cooke 2 min 100 A Lesson from History BY Joseph Morris 2 min 101 Let Me Live Out My Years BY John G. Neihardt 2 min 102 Life BY Griffith Alexander 2 min 103 Life BY Edward Rowland Sill 1 min 104 Life BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1 min 105 Life and Death BY Anna Barbauld 1 min 106 Life and Death BY Ernest H. Crosby 2 min 107 Life, not Death BY Alfred Tennyson 1 min 108 The Life Without Passion BY William Shakespeare 2 min 109 The Lion Path BY Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3 min 110 Lions and Ants BY Walt Mason 2 min 111 A Little Prayer BY S.E. Kiser 1 min 112 A Little Thankful Song BY Frank L. Stanton 2 min 113 Lose the Day Loitering BY Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1 min 114 Man, Bird, and God BY Robert Browning 1 min 115 Man or Manikin BY Richard Butler Glaenzer 2 min 116 A Man's a Man for A' That BY Robert Burns 4 min 117 The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife BY Joseph Rodman Drake 2 min 118 Meetin' Trouble BY Everard Jack Appleton 3 min 119 "Might Have Been" BY Grantland Rice 2 min 120 Mistress Fate BY William Rose Benét 2 min 121 Morality BY Matthew Arnold 2 min 122 My Creed BY S.E. Kiser 2 min 123 My Philosophy BY James Whitcomb Riley 2 min 124 My Triumph BY John Greenleaf Whittier 4 min 125 My Wage BY Jessie B. Rittenhouse 1 min 126 Never Trouble Trouble BY St. Clair Adams 2 min 127 The New Duckling BY Alfred Noyes 4 min 128 The Noble Nature BY Ben Jonson 1 min 129 Ode to Duty BY William Wordsworth 4 min 130 On Being Ready BY Grantland Rice 2 min 131 On Down the Road BY Grantland Rice 2 min 132 One Fight More BY Theodosia Garrison 2 min 133 One of These Days BY James W. Foley 3 min 134 The One BY Everard Jack Appleton 3 min 135 Opening Paradise BY Thomas Gray 1 min 136 Opportunity BY Berton Braley 3 min 137 Opportunity BY John James Ingalls 2 min 138 Opportunity BY Walter Malone 2 min 139 Opportunity BY Edwin Markham 2 min 140 Opportunity BY William Shakespeare 1 min 141 Opportunity BY Edward Rowland Sill 2 min 142 Order and the Bees BY William Shakespeare 3 min 143 Ownership BY St. Clair Adams 3 min 144 Painting the Lily BY William Shakespeare 1 min 145 Per Aspera BY Florence Earle Coates 1 min 146 The Pessimist BY Ben King 2 min 147 A Philosopher BY John Kendrick Bangs 2 min 148 Philosophy for Croakers BY Joseph Morris 3 min 149 Pippa's Song BY Robert Browning 1 min 150 Playing the Game BY Anonymous 2 min 151 Playing the Game BY Berton Braley 3 min 152 Play the Game BY Henry Newbolt 2 min 153 Polonius's Advice to Laertes BY William Shakespeare 3 min 154 A Poor Unfortunate BY Frank L. Stanton 2 min 155 Praise the Generous Gods for Giving BY William Ernest Henley 2 min 156 A Prayer BY Theodosia Garrison 3 min 157 Prayer for Pain BY John G. Neihardt 2 min 158 Preparedness BY Edwin Markham 1 min 159 Press On BY Park Benjamin 2 min 160 A Pretty Good World BY Frank L. Stanton 2 min 161 A Problem to Be Solved BY St. Clair Adams 2 min 162 Prometheus Unbound BY Percy Bysshe Shelley 2 min 163 Prospice BY Robert Browning 2 min 164 A Psalm of Life BY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4 min 165 The Quitter BY Robert W. Service 2 min 166 Rabbi Ben Ezra BY Robert Browning 2 min 167 The Rainbow BY William Wordsworth 1 min 168 The Rectifying Years BY St. Clair Adams 2 min 169 Resolve BY Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2 min 170 The Richer Mines BY John Kendrick Bangs 2 min 171 Ring Out, Wild Bells BY Alfred Tennyson 3 min 172 Rules for the Road BY Edwin Markham 1 min 173 Sadness and Merriment BY William Shakespeare 2 min 174 Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth BY Arthur Hugh Clough 3 min 175 See It Through BY Edgar A. Guest 2 min 176 Self-Dependence BY Matthew Arnold 4 min 177 Serenity BY Lord Byron 1 min 178 Sit Down, Sad Soul BY Bryan Waller Procter 2 min 179 Sleep and the Monarch BY William Shakespeare 3 min 180 Slogan BY Jane M'Lean 1 min 181 Smiles BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2 min 182 A Smiling Paradox BY John Kendrick Bangs 2 min 183 Solitude BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox 3 min 184 Song of Endeavor BY James W. Foley 2 min 185 A Song of Life BY Angela Morgan 2 min 186 A Song of Thanksgiving BY Angela Morgan 3 min 187 A Song of To-morrow BY Frank L. Stanton 1 min 188 Stability BY William Shakespeare 2 min 189 Stand Forth! BY Angela Morgan 2 min 190 Start Where You Stand BY Berton Braley 3 min 191 Steadfast BY Everard Jack Appleton 2 min 192 The Stone Rejected BY Edwin Markham 2 min 193 The Struggle BY Miriam Teichner 2 min 194 Submission BY Miriam Teichner 2 min 195 Success BY Berton Braley 2 min 196 Swellitis BY Joseph Morris 3 min 197 The Syndicated Smile BY St. Clair Adams 2 min 198 There Will Always Be Something to Do BY Edgar A. Guest 2 min 199 Thick Is the Darkness BY William Ernest Henley 1 min 200 The Things That Haven't Been Done Before BY Edgar A. Guest 3 min 201 This World BY Frank L. Stanton 1 min 202 Times Go By Turns BY Robert Southwell 3 min 203 Tit for Tat BY St. Clair Adams 4 min 204 To Althea from Prison BY Richard Lovelace 3 min 205 A Toast to Merriment BY James W. Foley 2 min 206 To a Young Man BY Edgar A. Guest 3 min 207 To-day BY Thomas Carlyle 1 min 208 To-day BY Douglas Malloch 2 min 209 To Melancholy BY John Kendrick Bangs 2 min 210 To the Men Who Lose BY Anonymous 3 min 211 To Those Who Fail BY Joaquin Miller 2 min 212 To Youth After Pain BY Margaret Widdemer 2 min 213 The Trainers BY Grantland Rice 3 min 214 Two at a Fireside BY Edwin Markham 1 min 215 Two Raindrops BY Joseph Morris 2 min 216 Ultimate Act BY Henry Bryan Binns 2 min 217 Ulysses BY Alfred Tennyson 7 min 218 Unafraid BY Everard Jack Appleton 1 min 219 Undismayed BY James W. Foley 3 min 220 The Unmusical Soloist BY Joseph Morris 4 min 221 Unsubdued BY S.E. Kiser 2 min 222 Victory BY Miriam Teichner 2 min 223 Victory in Defeat BY Edwin Markham 1 min 224 Wanted, a Man BY St. Clair Adams 2 min 225 The Welcome Man BY Walt Mason 2 min 226 What Dark Days Do BY Everard Jack Appleton 2 min 227 When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted BY Rudyard Kipling 4 min 228 When Nature Wants a Man BY Angela Morgan 6 min 229 Will BY Alfred Tennyson 2 min 230 Will BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2 min 231 The Wisdom of Folly BY Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 2 min 232 Wishing BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2 min 233 The Woman Who Understands BY Everard Jack Appleton 4 min 234 The Word BY John Kendrick Bangs 2 min 235 Work BY Angela Morgan 5 min 236 Work BY Henry Van Dyke 2 min 237 The World Is Against Me BY Edgar A. Guest 2 min 238 Worth While BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2 min 239 You May Count That Day BY George Eliot 3 min 240 Your Mission BY Ellen M.H. Gates 3 min
