“IF” poem by RUDYARD KIPLING
Rudyard Kipling born in Mombay, India 1865. is one of the most renowned poet and story-teller, novelist of the the late Victorian era. In 1907 he won the Nobel Prize in literature. He was offered the British Poet Laureateship and many times for a knighthood, however he declined both.
His works of fiction are “The Jungle Book” (1894) and “The Man who Would be King” (1888). He wrote poems like “Gunga Din” (1890), “Mandalay” (1890), “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” (1919), “The White Man’s Burden” (1899) and “If-” (1910).
Poem “If” was voted as UK’s favorite poem through a BBC opinion poll in 1995.
Read the full poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling:
“IF” is an inspirational poem by RUDYARD KIPLING
IF:
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:
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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 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!
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