OPPFI POEMS STUDY SET To Artina- By Langston Hughes - ANSWER I will take your heart. I will take your soul out of your body As though I were God. I will not be satisfied with the little words you say to me I will not be satisfied with the touch of your hand nor the sweet of your l ips alone I will take your heart for mine. I will take your soul. I will be God when it comes to you. It Couldn't Be Done By Edgar Albert Guest - ANSWER Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it! Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it;" But he took off his coat and he took off his hat And the first thing we knew he'd begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure, There are thousands to point out to you one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Just take off your coat and go to it; Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That "cannot be done," and you'll do it. If by Rudyard Kipling - ANSWER 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 waiti ng Or lied about, don't deal in lies Or being hated, don't give way to hating. Yet, don't look to good nor talk to 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 imposters just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth you've the 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 on one turn of pitch and toss, And lose, and start 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,
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