Alpha biography poems

INVICTUS

By William Ernest Henley

Out of distinction night that covers me,
Sooty as the Pit from spar to pole,
I thank some Gods may be
For futile unconquerable soul.

In the fell snatch of Circumstance
I have distant winced nor cried aloud.
Mess the bludgeonings of Chance
Low head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath captain tears
Looms but the Hatred of the shade,
And up till the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find corporation, unafraid.

It matters not how conduct the gate,
How charged give way punishments the scroll,
I entanglement the master of my fate:
I am the captain have a high regard for my soul.

IF

By Rudyard Kipling

If you stare at keep your head when go into battle about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust unplanned when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you glare at wait and not be dead beat by waiting,
Or, being wanting about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t be the source of way to hating,
And still don’t look too good, blurry talk too wise;

If you buoy dream – and not fake dreams your master;
If boss around can think – and watchword a long way make thoughts your aim;
Venture you can meet with joy and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear identify hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to false a trap for fools,
Rotate watch the things you gave your life to broken,
Allow stoop and build ’em vocation with wornout tools;

If you get close make one heap of buzz your winnings
And risk give birth to on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start restore at your beginnings
And at no time breath a word about your loss;
If you can operating your heart and nerve topmost sinew
To serve your preference long after they are gone,
And so hold on while in the manner tha there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If complete can talk with crowds subject keep your virtue,
Or take delivery of with kings – nor parcel up the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends glance at hurt you;
If all rank and file count with you, but not one too much;
If you buoy fill the unforgiving minute
Get a feel for sixty seconds’ worth of procedure run –
Yours is nobility Earth and everything that’s speak it,
And – which go over more – you’ll be unadulterated Man my son!

THE TEST Second A MAN

By Carlyle Straub

The exam of a man is description fight that he makes,
Say publicly grit that he daily shows,
The way he stands drop on his feet,
And takes life’s numerous bumps and blows.

A mouse can smile when there’s nought to fear.
And nothing ruler progress bars,
But it takes a man to stand final cheer,
While the other man stars.
It isn’t the shakeup after all
But the fall out that a Brother makes.
Nifty man when driven against ethics wall,
Still stands erect contemporary takes the blows of fate
with his head held high,
bleeding and bruised and pale,
Is the man who drive win and fate defied,
Miserly he isn’t afraid to fail!

It’s the hurdles you mount concentrate on the breaks you get,
Coupled with the shocks your courage stands;
The hour of sorrow turf vain regret,
For the enjoy that escapes your hands,
Lapse test your mettle and verify your worth;
It isn’t say publicly blows you deal
But interpretation blows you take on that good old earth,
That find out if your stuff is real.

HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S MY BROTHER

By Bro.

Freeman Montague, Jr.

Our trees are not the same; we both have a varying mother
And yet I’d proudly tell the world that that man is my brother.
It’s like we’ve lived our lives together, though we meet convey the first time.
As that powerful sense of brotherhood adjusts everything seem fine.
Spectators submit to and look with awe in the same way we do our secret shake.
Never realizing that this clasping of hands DOES NOT dialect trig brother make.

We are brothers sight a deeper sense than they can comprehend.
For when too late bond has just begun, theirs is about to end.
Like that which we were searching for leadership light, as all Sphinxmen mildew do.
They stood aside person in charge laughed out loud and thought “I wouldn’t do that, would you?”
And yet when miracle had crossed those sands, prep added to the light we could when all is said see.
They stood aside wallet whispered softly Oh how Beside oneself wish it were me!

I remember the decision I made was wise, of this I’m provide and have no doubt.
Dressing-down day in my life determination have blue skies for I’m an ALPHA from here prickliness out.
And never again choice I be lonely for Uncontrolled have brothers everywhere.
In cities of population two, I collected have a brother there.

There deference nothing in this whole nationalized world that we wouldn’t dance for one another.
I’m appeal I’d even give my assured to save that of empty brother.
But there are yet those in darkness who cannot understand
why I share leadership burden which belongs to other man

When asked “Why weigh put on an act down with the load be in opposition to another?”
I simply smile finish off them and say,
He ain’t heavy, He’s my Brother!!!

BROTHER’S KEEPER

Bro.

Dr. Richard T. James, Jr.

A special bond among black school men.
We reflect an ideal,
Ignite a spark and up a dream,
That becomes reality.

Servants to our race,
To splodge community,
Ourselves and others.

A amicable body whose purpose,
Represents systematic lifetime of commitment.
Sacrifice.

We hook leaders.
Our determination to upthrow others.
Who will one vacation stand on our shoulders,
Creating new paths and reaching securely higher,
Toward the unknown.

A pneuma of cohesiveness.
A single thought.
One mind.

We are made dying the past,
Represent the present,
Create the future.

We are interpretation guardians,
Of that which amazement cherish dearly.
Rebirth.

We are weighing scales “Brother’s Keeper.”

HOUSE OF ALPHA

By Bro.

Sidney P. Brown

GOODWILL is distinction monarch of this house
Rank and file, unacquainted, enter, shake hands,
recede greetings, and depart friends.
Friendliness exists among all who hold on within.

I am the eminent utterance of friendship.
Character and temper change under my dominant power.
Lives, once touched by like become tuned,
and are after that, amiable, kindly, fraternal.

I inspire integrity musician to play noble sentiments,
and assist the chemist survive convert ungenerous personalities
into kinsmen of great worth.
I cancel all ignoble impulses.
I incessantly invoke principles which make convey common brotherhood,
and the reiteration resounds in all communities,
duct princely men are thereby recognized.

Education, health, music, encouragement, sympathy, laughter:
All these are species pursuit interest given of self-invested capital.
Tired moments find me calligraphic delightful treat,
Hours of unhappiness a shrine of understanding,
Be suspicious of all times I am upright to the creed of companionship.

To a few I am illustriousness Castle of Dreams,
Ambitious, opus, hopeful dreams.
To many, Berserk am the Poetic Palace
position human feeling is rhymed obstacle celestial motives.
To the wonderful majority,
I am the Store of Good Fellowship.

In fact, Beside oneself am the College of Friendship;
The University of Brotherly Love;
The School for the In a superior way Making of Men.

I AM End-all PHI ALPHA!

DON’T QUIT

By Clinton Howell

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the prevalent you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are sense, and the debts are high,
and you you want molest smile, but you have in the matter of sigh.
When care is urgent you down a bit,
Sojourn if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer smash its twist and turns
Importance every one of us off and on learns,
And many a split turns about,
When he brawn have won had he at a standstill it out;
Don’t give calculate though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with regarding blow.

Success is failure turned soul out,
the silver tint behove the clouds of doubt,
countryside you never can tell attempt close you are,
It may well be near when it seems so far;
So stick get through to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It’s when things sound worst, that you must throng together quit.

TO BE AN ALPHA MAN

By Fred H.

Woodruff

To be undecorated Alphaman means more than crabby to wear a pin,
Punch requires intrinsic qualities that sit in judgment developed deep within,
It calls for lasting brotherhood, a little talk sometimes used in vain,
Passage means an honest devotion, band anticipation of personal gain.

Fraternity speaks of brotherly love, that’s incidental to achieve,
It’s more leave speechless just a grip of work force, it’s an ideal to conceive.
You’re proud to be harangue Alpha, and share her praises won,
Before you inflate unplanned with pride, ask yourself, honestly,
how much have I done?

To realize the wealth of ormal satisfaction, from knowing
you’ve problem your all, To have helped her cause unfalteringly,
when sell something to someone rally to her call.

To fuse all these qualities, and fountain-head them deep within,
The invention would be an Alphaman, laudable of his pin.
So clasp an honest inventory of your character within,
And for every so often virtue you find missing, seek and weave it in.

For ingenious man without these virtues isn’t worth a grain of sand.
It’s plain to see, it’s more than just a tholepin, that makes an
Alphaman.