To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!Īs tho’ to breathe were life! Life piled on lifeįrom that eternal silence, something more,Ī bringer of new things and vile it wereįor some three suns to store and hoard myself,īeyond the utmost bound of human thought. Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades Myself not least, but honour’d of them all Īnd drunk delight of battle with my peers, Much have I seen and known cities of menĪnd manners, climates, councils, governments, That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole The poem’s memorable phrases will encourage even the most settled soldier, sailor or airman to strike out and start something new.īy this still hearth, among these barren crags, The poem begins at the end of Odysseus life and depicts the desire of a man wanting to set out on new adventures and see new sights, even as his life is passing into twilight. This is one of the most famous poems in the english language. “ I am the Captain of my fate….” was my goto line when things got tough and I wanted to quit and throw in the towel. The first poem I memorized while a plebe (freshman) at the Naval Academy. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,Īnd-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son! With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, If all men count with you, but none too much If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, To serve your turn long after they are gone,Īnd so hold on when there is nothing in youĮxcept the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew If you can make one heap of all your winningsĪnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,Īnd lose, and start again at your beginningsĪnd never breathe a word about your loss Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,Īnd stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim If you can dream-and not make dreams your master Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,Īnd yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too If you can keep your head when all about you If you can strive to meet these challenges you will one day be a “Man my son!”
Roses are red violets are blue you are gay meme series#
The poem offers a series of challenging “ifs”.
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Whenever I read this poem I envision an older man speaking to a young boy discussing the conditions for being a man. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” “It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. Both of his poems can be easily memorized and referenced for many a motivational conversation. Theodore Roosevelt, a adventurer, Rough Rider, president, and at 60 years old a WW I volunteer. If you read two poems and stop these are the two to read. Theodore Roosevelt: Man in the Arena & Doctrine of the Strenuous Life The only poem on this list that I have not memorized, or tried to memorize is the final one Ulysses. The five poems below are Masculine, powerful, and will cause you to ponder life.
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Poems? Really? Not Military enough? Not Masculine enough? If your first thought of poetry was along the “roses are red, violets are blue…” line you have come to the wrong place.