When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, You can hear Idris reading the inspiring poem here.īelow we’ve slightly abridged and adapted it. “He fitted in well with the liking for traditional themes of friendship, devotion, home and nature in the ‘Friend’.” “Appropriately known as ‘The People’s Poet’, he preferred to describe himself simply as ‘a newspaper man who wrote verses’. The majority offer a sentimental view of ordinary life. “Guest is estimated to have written over 11,000 poems during his career. “The poetry in the “Friend” in the Sixties was dominated, as in the late Fifties, by the poems of Edgar A Guest, a prolific writer of verse who was born in Birmingham in 1881 and later moved to Detroit in the USA with his family. Here’s a little bit about Edgar from the Fiction Special: Guest was a name that appeared time and again throughout our 1950s and 1960s issues. There’s a “Friend” connection, too! When we were in our Archive, collating poems and stories for our 150th Fiction Special, Edgar A. It’s a gentle reminder to us all that even the most trying of times will end, and there are sunnier skies ahead. Guest wrote the inspirational “Don’t Quit” in the 1920s. One morning recently, just before Breakfast News began at 6am, I heard Idris Elba reading a poem on the BBC. I’m not usually much of a TV person, but like everyone else at the moment, I’ve been tuning in to see how things are developing with the coronavirus situation. It’s the best part of the day, my mum always says! I’m an early bird – usually up before six. Is there anything more inspiring than poetry? Or otherwise used in any way without the express written permission of the owner.Sign up to our Weekly newsletter Subscribe to our magazine for more great content The material on this site may not be copied, reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, stored, altered, adapted, Purchasing books through any poet's Amazon links helps to support Your Daily Poem. All rights reserved.Īs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Website Development by Practical Business SystemsĬontents of this web site and all original text and images therein are copyright © by Your Daily Poem. A pep talk I know I can use and I'm sure I'm not alone. This poem reminds me of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's work-skirting the edge of sentimentality but never going over it. The world would be a better place if everyone follows this! Nice poem with a lot of good sense! "Success is failure turned inside out" is a brilliant line. (You have to fight because you can and you want to) this is nice poem for all person or someone to realize that not quit and still fighting into end It's when things seem worst that you must not quit. I used it in speeches then and nearly forty years later it hangs on the wall of my office and I am still using it to encourage people NOT TO QUIT. This poem helped create in me a don?t quit attitude in my life while in high school. Published in the Detroit Free Press (March 4,1921). So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit. When he might have won had he stuck it out.ĭon't give up though the pace seems slow,Īnd he learned too late when the night slipped down,Īnd you never can tell how close you are. When the funds are low and the debts are high,Īnd you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,Īnd the road you're trudging seems all uphill, Ask for this YDP anthology at your favorite bookstore or order it online today!
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