Some Good Poetry to Live By

I don't want to be cheesy but as someone who appreciates the arts I have to include 2 poems that my Father has always said to me. These 2 pieces resonate through time and should be read by all men and women who would like to better their worldly views. It's just my opinion but I believe quotes and poems that stand the test of time do so because they are Truth. They mean something and if you take the time to pay attention, they may help you make a difference in this world. So read these 2 and enjoy! Hopefully it will give you a good feeling and maybe even change some perspectives you have on life.

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 wornout 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
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!

*If you don't know who Rudyard Kipling is, he also wrote The Jungle Book.

The Spell of the Yukon
By Robert W. Service    1st Stanza

I wanted the gold, and I sought it;
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it —
Came out with a fortune last fall,
Yet somehow life's not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.


and this is just a joke for some fun...