Carry On! by Robert Service - Powerful English Poetry

Carry on is a treasure for those who suffer from great misfortune, endure hardship, and yet in this travesty find the resolve to carry on.
Carry On! by Robert Service
It’s easy to fight when everything’s right,
And you’re mad with thrill and the glory;
It’s easy to cheer when victory’s near,
And wallow in fields that are gory.
It’s a different song when everything’s wrong,
When you’re feeling infernally mortal;
When it’s ten against one, and hope there is none,
Buck up, little soldier, and chortle:
Carry on! Carry on!
There isn’t much punch in your blow.
You are glaring and staring and hitting out blind;
You are muddy and bloody, but never you mind.
Carry on! Carry on!
You haven’t the ghost of a show.
It’s looking like death, but while you’ve a breath,
Carry on, my son! Carry on!
And so in the strife of the battle of life
It’s easy to fight when you’re winning;
It’s easy to slave, and starve and be brave,
When the dawn of success is beginning.
But the man who can meet despair and defeat
With a cheer, there’s the man of God’s choosing;
The man who can fight to Heaven’s own height
Is the man who can fight when he’s losing.
Carry on! Carry on!
Thing never were looming so black.
But show that you haven’t a cowardly streak,
And though you’re unlucky you never are weak.
Carry on! Carry on!
Brace up for another attack.
It’s looking like hell, but - you never tell.
Carry on, old man! Carry on!
There are some who drift out in the desert of doubt
And some who in brutishness wallow;
There are others, I know, who in piety go
Because of a Heaven to follow.
But to labor with zest, and to give of your best,
For the sweetness and joy of the giving;
To help folks along with a hand and a song;
Why, there’s the real sunshine of living.
Carry on! Carry on!
Fight the good fight and true;
Believe in your mission, greet life with a cheer;
There’s big work to do, and that’s why you are here.
Carry on! Carry on!
Let the world be the better for you;
And at last when you die, let this be your cry!
Carry on, my soul! Carry on!
#poetry #motivation

[@btexpress944]

Wonderful poem! I like the reader. He sounds authentic - like a regular guy telling me his thoughts. I need to look up this poet.

[@rgray83z]

This certainly feels relevant in these times. . .!

[@Heart_and_Soul]

⚜⏳⚜ THANK YOU ⚜⏳⚜
...just what I needed to hear. I carry on!🕊

[@1969sofine]

There are strange things done in the midnight sun

[@richardrosenthal7241]

Service wrote many wonderful poems the Yukon ones are my favorite

[@haykaramhakobyan4762]

Poem is good but I can't say the same about reader

[@Steveirwin4477]

This poem is pretty good 😊 and the poem carry on by Edgar Albert guest is just as good but it's shorter than this one

[@LynchNike]

I love you 😘💕💗❤

[@bloatedtonydanza7798]

Didn’t like the voice over.

[@MrPartegas]

The poetry is real.... spot on. The video is garbage. Reacher??? Might as well have Mickey Mouse. Sad.