marți, 13 ianuarie 2009

If

I’ve just remembered this poem.
Today, I just want to let you know it exist.
Relax and enjoy your reading.

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!

5 comentarii:

Georgi spunea...

Multumesc, sotul meu o sa aprecieze sa citeasca aceasta poezie in engleza. scrie si el poezii, si si-a facut un blog de curand. Il gasesti la http://poetrydungeon.blogspot.com, daca esti interesata sa-i citesti poeziile. O zi buna!!

Coana Zoitzica spunea...

ma bucur sa aud asta. voi urmari si sper, daca citez aici, sa nu-mi ceara drepturi de autor ;).
astept vesti bune din campania ta.

Georgi spunea...

iti multumesc mult pentru comentarii si suport. Nu fac chiar o campanie, dar am trait aceasta exerienta minunata, mi s-a parut o super idee, si incerc sa pasez idea cuiva care vrea sa miste ceva...cumva...:)Deci, daca poti sa recomanzi postul meu si altor cititori, ar fi minunat! Poate se inspira,se strang cativa si se face treaba, dea Domnu!!!

asdfgh spunea...

Vorbiti despre poezii si eu nu stiu :( Am pus blogul cu poezii la favorite, felicitari.

Si Miss, cateodata e placut sa iti amintesti de poezie...Thx!

Coana Zoitzica spunea...

@ rox: am bucur ca ai gasit ceva frumos aici.