A few poems I really Like

Equipment

by Edgar A. Guest

Figure it out for yourself, my lad,

You've all that the greatest of men have had,

Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes;

And a brain to use if you would be wise,

With this equipment they all began.

So start for the top and say

"I can,"Look them over the wise and great,

They take their food from a common plate,

And similar knives and forks they use,

With similar laces they tie their shoes,

The world considers them brave and smart,

But you've all they had when they made their start.

You can triumph and come to skill,

You can be great if you only will

You're well equipped for what fight you choose,

You have arms and legs and a brain to use,

And the man who has risen great deeds

to doBegan his life with no more than you.

You are the handicap you must face,

You are the one who must choose your place

You must say where you want to go,

How much you will study the truth to know;

God has equipped you for life,

but HeLets you decide what you want to be.

Courage must come from the soul within

The man must furnish the will to win.

So figure it out for yourself,

my ladYou were born with all that the great have had,

With your equipment they all began,

Get hold of your self and say, "I can."

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.