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Unsubdued

Take the time to absorb the message found in the poem Unsubdued. Know that, no matter what your past failures, you can always begin again tomorrow, which is a completely fresh and new canvas to paint on. "An artist's career," said Whistler, "always begins tomorrow." So does the career of any person of courage and imagination.

Unsubdued
by Samuel E. Kiser

I have hoped, I have planned, I have striven,
To the will I have added the deed;
The best that was in me I've given,
I have prayed, but the gods would not heed.

I have dared and reached only disaster,
I have battled and broken my lance;
I am bruised by a pitiless master
That the weak and the timid call Chance.

I am old, I am bent, I am cheated
Of all that Youth urged me to win;
But name me not with the defeated,
Tomorrow again, I begin.


~S.E. Kiser (1862 - 1942)

Samuel Ellsworth Kiser was born in Shippenville, Pa. He began newspaper work in Cleveland, and from 1900 until 1914 was editorial and special writer for the Chicago Record-Herald.

Kiser was noted for his humorous sketches, which had been widely syndicated.

Among his books are "Georgie," "Charles the Chauffeur," "Love Sonnets of an Office Boy," "Ballads of the Busy Days," "Sonnets of a Chorus Girl," "The Whole Glad Year," and "The Land of Little Care."

More Poems by Kiser

A Little Prayer
New Years Poem: December 31 by S.E. Kiser
Poem About Faith


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