Poetry
Don’t Give Up by Phoebe Cary
If you’ve tried and have not won
Never stop for crying;
All that’s good and great is done
Just by patient trying.
Though young bird’s in flying fall
Still their wings grow stronger,
And the next time they can keep
Up a little longer.
Though the sturdy oak has known
Many a wind that bowed her,
She has risen again and grown
Loftier and prouder.
If by easy work you’re beat,
Who the more will prize you?
Gaining victory from defeat,
That’s the test that tries you?
Don’t Give Up by Phoebe Cary
If you’ve tried and have not won
Never stop for crying;
All that’s good and great is done
Just by patient trying.
Though young bird’s in flying fall
Still their wings grow stronger,
And the next time they can keep
Up a little longer.
Though the sturdy oak has known
Many a wind that bowed her,
She has risen again and grown
Loftier and prouder.
If by easy work you’re beat,
Who the more will prize you?
Gaining victory from defeat,
That’s the test that tries you?
Twenty Froggies by George Cooper
Twenty froggies went to school
Down beside a rushy pool.
Twenty little coats of green,
Twenty vests all white and clean.
“We must be in time.” said they,
“First we study, then we play.
That is how we keep the rule
When we froggies go to school.
Master bullfrog, brave and stern,
Called his classes in their turn.
Taught them how to nobly strive,
Also how to leap and dive.
Taught them how to dodge the blow
From the sticks that bad boys throw.
Twenty froggies grew up fast,
Bullfrogs they became at last.
Polished in a high degree,
As each froggie ought to be.
Now they sit on other logs,
Teaching other little frogs.
If you’ve tried and have not won
Never stop for crying;
All that’s good and great is done
Just by patient trying.
Though young bird’s in flying fall
Still their wings grow stronger,
And the next time they can keep
Up a little longer.
Though the sturdy oak has known
Many a wind that bowed her,
She has risen again and grown
Loftier and prouder.
If by easy work you’re beat,
Who the more will prize you?
Gaining victory from defeat,
That’s the test that tries you?
Don’t Give Up by Phoebe Cary
If you’ve tried and have not won
Never stop for crying;
All that’s good and great is done
Just by patient trying.
Though young bird’s in flying fall
Still their wings grow stronger,
And the next time they can keep
Up a little longer.
Though the sturdy oak has known
Many a wind that bowed her,
She has risen again and grown
Loftier and prouder.
If by easy work you’re beat,
Who the more will prize you?
Gaining victory from defeat,
That’s the test that tries you?
Twenty Froggies by George Cooper
Twenty froggies went to school
Down beside a rushy pool.
Twenty little coats of green,
Twenty vests all white and clean.
“We must be in time.” said they,
“First we study, then we play.
That is how we keep the rule
When we froggies go to school.
Master bullfrog, brave and stern,
Called his classes in their turn.
Taught them how to nobly strive,
Also how to leap and dive.
Taught them how to dodge the blow
From the sticks that bad boys throw.
Twenty froggies grew up fast,
Bullfrogs they became at last.
Polished in a high degree,
As each froggie ought to be.
Now they sit on other logs,
Teaching other little frogs.