It Can Be Done.

St. Clair Adams, Joseph Morris Bachelor

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Foreword (2:32)
Abou Ben Adhem BY Leigh Hunt (2:39)
The Answer BY Grantland Rice (2:58)
Appreciation BY William Judson Kibby (2:33)
The Arrow and the Song BY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1:31)
Awareness BY Miriam Teichner (2:12)
The Bars of Fate BY Ellen M.H. Gates (2:48)
Battle Cry BY John G. Neihardt (2:04)
The Belly and the Members BY William Shakespeare (3:33)
Be the Best of Whatever You Are BY Douglas Malloch (2:28)
Borrowed Feathers BY Joseph Morris (2:37)
Borrowing Trouble BY Robert Burns (1:03)
Brave Life BY Grantland Rice (3:34)
The Call of the Unbeaten BY Grantland Rice (2:16)
Can't BY Edgar A. Guest (3:31)
Can You Sing a Song? BY Joseph Morris (1:17)
Cares BY Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1:38)
The Celestial Surgeon BY Robert Louis Stevenson (1:25)
Challenge BY Jean Nette (1:15)
The Chambered Nautilus BY Oliver Wendell Holmes (3:49)
Character of a Happy Life BY Sir Henry Wotton (2:57)
Clear the Way BY Charles Mackay (2:19)
Cleon and I BY Charles Mackay (2:39)
Columbus BY Joaquin Miller (3:35)
The Conqueror BY Berton Braley (3:20)
Co-operation BY J. Mason Knox (1:03)
Courage BY Florence Earle Coates (1:20)
Cowards BY William Shakespeare (1:07)
A Creed BY Edwin Markham (1:14)
The Daffodils BY William Wordsworth (2:08)
Days of Cheer BY James W. Foley (2:34)
December 31 BY S.E. Kiser (2:05)
De Sunflower Ain't de Daisy BY Anonymous (2:30)
The Disappointed BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2:39)
Duty BY Ralph Waldo Emerson (1:07)
Duty BY Edwin Markham (0:46)
Envoi BY John G. Neihardt (1:46)
Essentials BY St. Clair Adams (1:16)
Fable BY Ralph Waldo Emerson (1:32)
Fairy Song BY John Keats (1:46)
Faith BY S.E. Kiser (1:07)
Faith BY Edward Rowland Sill (2:36)
The Fighter BY S.E. Kiser (2:32)
The Fighting Failure BY Everard Jack Appleton (3:45)
The Firm of Grin and Barrett BY Sam Walter Foss (3:12)
Four Things BY Henry Van Dyke (1:15)
Friends of Mine BY James W. Foley (1:48)
The Game BY Grantland Rice (2:49)
The Gifts of God BY George Herbert (2:07)
The Gift BY Robert Burns (1:21)
Gladness BY Anna Hempstead Branch (1:58)
The Glad Song BY Joseph Morris (1:17)
God BY Gamaliel Bradford (1:21)
Good Deeds BY William Shakespeare (1:15)
Good Intentions BY St. Clair Adams (1:58)
A Good Name BY William Shakespeare (1:51)
Gradatim BY G. Holland (2:52)
Gray Days BY Griffith Alexander (2:10)
The Greatness of the Soul BY Alfred Tennyson (1:55)
Grief BY Angela Morgan (1:39)
The Grumpy Guy BY Griffith Alexander (4:01)
The Happy Heart BY Thomas Dekker (1:57)
The Has-Beens BY Walt Mason (1:46)
Having Done and Doing BY William Shakespeare (4:05)
Heinelet BY Gamaliel Bradford (1:02)
Helpin' Out BY William Judson Kibby (3:27)
Here's Hopin' BY Frank L. Stanton (1:31)
A Hero BY Florence Earle Coates (1:41)
He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed BY Sheamus O Sheel (2:03)
His Ally BY William Rose Benét (1:42)
Hoe Your Row BY Frank L. Stanton (1:09)
Hold Fast BY Everard Jack Appleton (2:51)
Hope BY Anonymous (1:49)
A Hopeful Brother BY Frank L. Stanton (1:41)
The House by the Side of the Road BY Sam Walter Foss (2:56)
How Did You Die? BY Edmund Vance Cooke (2:09)
How Do You Tackle Your Work? BY Edgar A. Guest (2:09)
A Hymn to Happiness BY James W. Foley (2:14)
If BY John Kendrick Bangs (2:36)
If BY Rudyard Kipling (4:28)
If I Should Die BY Ben King (1:51)
If You Can't Go Over or Under, Go Round BY Joseph Morris (3:00)
I'm Glad BY Anonymous (0:50)
The Inner Light BY John Milton (1:12)
Invictus BY William Ernest Henley (1:25)
Is It Raining, Little Flower? By Anonymous (1:20)
It Couldn't Be Done BY Edgar A. Guest (2:46)
It May Be BY S.E. Riser (1:23)
It Won't Stay Blowed BY St. Clair Adams (2:39)
Jaw BY St. Clair Adams (1:36)
The Joy of Living BY Gamaliel Bradford (1:31)
Just Be Glad BY James Whitcomb Riley (1:49)
Just Whistle BY Frank L. Stanton (1:53)
Keep A-Goin'! BY Frank L. Stanton (1:50)
Keep On Keepin' On BY Anonymous (1:47)
Keep Sweet BY Strickland W. Gillilan (1:56)
The Kingdom of Man BY John Kendrick Bangs (1:37)
Know Thyself BY Angela Morgan (4:35)
Laugh a Little Bit BY Edmund Vance Cooke (2:11)
A Lesson from History BY Joseph Morris (1:52)
Let Me Live Out My Years BY John G. Neihardt (1:36)
Life BY Griffith Alexander (1:48)
Life BY Edward Rowland Sill (1:05)
Life BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1:29)
Life and Death BY Anna Barbauld (1:20)
Life and Death BY Ernest H. Crosby (2:09)
Life, not Death BY Alfred Tennyson (1:09)
The Life Without Passion BY William Shakespeare (2:16)
The Lion Path BY Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2:47)
Lions and Ants BY Walt Mason (1:30)
A Little Prayer BY S.E. Kiser (1:23)
A Little Thankful Song BY Frank L. Stanton (1:36)
Lose the Day Loitering BY Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1:23)
Man, Bird, and God BY Robert Browning (1:28)
Man or Manikin BY Richard Butler Glaenzer (2:05)
A Man's a Man for A' That BY Robert Burns (3:54)
The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife BY Joseph Rodman Drake (1:52)
Meetin' Trouble BY Everard Jack Appleton (2:31)
"Might Have Been" BY Grantland Rice (2:09)
Mistress Fate BY William Rose Benét (1:41)
Morality BY Matthew Arnold (1:50)
My Creed BY S.E. Kiser (2:03)
My Philosophy BY James Whitcomb Riley (2:10)
My Triumph BY John Greenleaf Whittier (3:52)
My Wage BY Jessie B. Rittenhouse (1:12)
Never Trouble Trouble BY St. Clair Adams (1:38)
The New Duckling BY Alfred Noyes (3:32)
The Noble Nature BY Ben Jonson (1:25)
Ode to Duty BY William Wordsworth (4:10)
On Being Ready BY Grantland Rice (2:00)
On Down the Road BY Grantland Rice (1:39)
One Fight More BY Theodosia Garrison (1:57)
One of These Days BY James W. Foley (2:46)
The One BY Everard Jack Appleton (2:58)
Opening Paradise BY Thomas Gray (0:59)
Opportunity BY Berton Braley (2:37)
Opportunity BY John James Ingalls (2:22)
Opportunity BY Walter Malone (2:15)
Opportunity BY Edwin Markham (1:32)
Opportunity BY William Shakespeare (1:02)
Opportunity BY Edward Rowland Sill (2:08)
Order and the Bees BY William Shakespeare (2:32)
Ownership BY St. Clair Adams (2:58)
Painting the Lily BY William Shakespeare (1:19)
Per Aspera BY Florence Earle Coates (1:17)
The Pessimist BY Ben King (1:54)
A Philosopher BY John Kendrick Bangs (1:33)
Philosophy for Croakers BY Joseph Morris (2:48)
Pippa's Song BY Robert Browning (1:25)
Playing the Game BY Anonymous (1:52)
Playing the Game BY Berton Braley (2:35)
Play the Game BY Henry Newbolt (2:18)
Polonius's Advice to Laertes BY William Shakespeare (2:35)
A Poor Unfortunate BY Frank L. Stanton (2:05)
Praise the Generous Gods for Giving BY William Ernest Henley (1:30)
A Prayer BY Theodosia Garrison (2:31)
Prayer for Pain BY John G. Neihardt (2:15)
Preparedness BY Edwin Markham (1:01)
Press On BY Park Benjamin (2:22)
A Pretty Good World BY Frank L. Stanton (2:11)
A Problem to Be Solved BY St. Clair Adams (1:39)
Prometheus Unbound BY Percy Bysshe Shelley (1:36)
Prospice BY Robert Browning (2:09)
A Psalm of Life BY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (3:38)
The Quitter BY Robert W. Service (2:27)
Rabbi Ben Ezra BY Robert Browning (2:19)
The Rainbow BY William Wordsworth (1:17)
The Rectifying Years BY St. Clair Adams (2:19)
Resolve BY Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1:31)
The Richer Mines BY John Kendrick Bangs (1:40)
Ring Out, Wild Bells BY Alfred Tennyson (2:33)
Rules for the Road BY Edwin Markham (1:14)
Sadness and Merriment BY William Shakespeare (2:28)
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth BY Arthur Hugh Clough (2:56)
See It Through BY Edgar A. Guest (2:28)
Self-Dependence BY Matthew Arnold (3:45)
Serenity BY Lord Byron (0:52)
Sit Down, Sad Soul BY Bryan Waller Procter (1:54)
Sleep and the Monarch BY William Shakespeare (2:37)
Slogan BY Jane M'Lean (1:15)
Smiles BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1:58)
A Smiling Paradox BY John Kendrick Bangs (1:30)
Solitude BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2:42)
Song of Endeavor BY James W. Foley (2:19)
A Song of Life BY Angela Morgan (1:51)
A Song of Thanksgiving BY Angela Morgan (3:03)
A Song of To-morrow BY Frank L. Stanton (0:58)
Stability BY William Shakespeare (2:27)
Stand Forth! BY Angela Morgan (2:16)
Start Where You Stand BY Berton Braley (2:44)
Steadfast BY Everard Jack Appleton (1:57)
The Stone Rejected BY Edwin Markham (1:42)
The Struggle BY Miriam Teichner (2:06)
Submission BY Miriam Teichner (2:24)
Success BY Berton Braley (2:03)
Swellitis BY Joseph Morris (2:37)
The Syndicated Smile BY St. Clair Adams (2:30)
There Will Always Be Something to Do BY Edgar A. Guest (2:25)
Thick Is the Darkness BY William Ernest Henley (1:03)
The Things That Haven't Been Done Before BY Edgar A. Guest (2:39)
This World BY Frank L. Stanton (0:47)
Times Go By Turns BY Robert Southwell (3:04)
Tit for Tat BY St. Clair Adams (3:43)
To Althea from Prison BY Richard Lovelace (2:41)
A Toast to Merriment BY James W. Foley (2:29)
To a Young Man BY Edgar A. Guest (2:50)
To-day BY Thomas Carlyle (1:17)
To-day BY Douglas Malloch (2:15)
To Melancholy BY John Kendrick Bangs (1:58)
To the Men Who Lose BY Anonymous (2:36)
To Those Who Fail BY Joaquin Miller (2:02)
To Youth After Pain BY Margaret Widdemer (2:04)
The Trainers BY Grantland Rice (3:15)
Two at a Fireside BY Edwin Markham (0:46)
Two Raindrops BY Joseph Morris (2:14)
Ultimate Act BY Henry Bryan Binns (1:39)
Ulysses BY Alfred Tennyson (7:25)
Unafraid BY Everard Jack Appleton (1:05)
Undismayed BY James W. Foley (2:31)
The Unmusical Soloist BY Joseph Morris (3:53)
Unsubdued BY S.E. Kiser (2:13)
Victory BY Miriam Teichner (1:45)
Victory in Defeat BY Edwin Markham (1:27)
Wanted—a Man BY St. Clair Adams (2:29)
The Welcome Man BY Walt Mason (1:55)
What Dark Days Do BY Everard Jack Appleton (2:24)
When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted BY Rudyard Kipling (3:34)
When Nature Wants a Man BY Angela Morgan (6:25)
Will BY Alfred Tennyson (1:53)
Will BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2:02)
The Wisdom of Folly BY Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (2:01)
Wishing BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2:14)
The Woman Who Understands BY Everard Jack Appleton (3:58)
The Word BY John Kendrick Bangs (2:07)
Work BY Angela Morgan (4:37)
Work BY Henry Van Dyke (1:40)
The World Is Against Me BY Edgar A. Guest (2:30)
Worth While BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2:20)
You May Count That Day BY George Eliot (2:54)
Your Mission BY Ellen M.H. Gates (2:47)