* " If This Goes On —" ( 1940 ; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction )

*" If This Goes On —"

* George Horne's typographic animation of " If —" ( read by Des Lynam, music by Fauré ).

* Reading of " If —" in Wikimedia

* Free human-read audio recordings of " If —"

* Authentic digital editions archive of " If —" multiform editions at Dalhousie University Library, Canada-Original Author Autographed, Calligraphed / Typed Broadsides, Collector Multipage and Human Voice, Enhanced Video based Multimedia "

If each number is pronounced individually —" 3, 2, 1 "; the pronunciation resembles the countdown before liftoff ; thus, the resident petitioned for the code to be assigned to the Space Coast region.

In this part, the lyrics have a pragmatic sense of control of the situation —" If you want my future, forget my past "— which, according to musicologist Sheila Whiteley, tap directly into the emotions of the young teenage audience.

During the chorus, the lyrics —" If you wanna be my lover / You gotta get with my friends "— address the value of female friendship over the heterosexual bond, while the ascending group of chords and the number of voices creates a sense of power that adds to the song's level of excitement.

Poems that feature a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism and a stiff upper lip include Rudyard Kipling's " If —" and W. E. Henley's " Invictus ".

" He quickly added however that Zionism, like all other national movements, must guard itself against the dangers of degeneration into jingoism —" If it ever developed in that direction, it will forfeit all claims to Socialist sympathy.

* The Cabal, a fictional secret society in the Robert Heinlein science fiction novella " If This Goes On —"

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

The person from Porlock later became a word to describe interrupted genius, and the literary critic Walter Jackson Bate recounted that while John Livingston Lowes taught the poem, he told his students " If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock.

If Coleridge's dream did originate ideas within the poem, then the dreams are related to those experienced by contemporary opium eaters and writers, Thomas de Quincey and Charles Pierre Baudelaire.

If we restrict ourselves to what is ' given ', appealing to the poem as a ' whole ', we shall fail probably to resolves its various cruxes.

If you think Terayama's poem uses a child's game to express in hyperbolic metaphor how, in retrospect, life is short, and nothing more, then this would indeed work as a senryū.

* Carla Bruni sings the poem ' If You Were Coming In The Fall ', by Emily Dickinson on her album No Promises.

* In the episode Major Star of the British sitcom Blackadder, Captain Blackadder parodies the poem " The Soldier ", warning George ' If I should die, think only this of me, ' I'll be back to get you!

If the agent used the same poem code words to send a number of messages, these words could be discovered easily by enemy cryptographers.

If the words could be identified as coming from a famous poem or quotation, then all of the future traffic submitted in that poem code could be read.

Rudyard Kipling's poem, If —, is said to be based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured during the Raid.

The Raid is recalled in a number of lines in the poem, including: If you can make a heap of all your winnings / And risk it at one turn of pitch and toss / And lose, and start again from your beginnings / And never breathe a word about your loss ...

Rudyard Kipling's If — ( 1895 ), often voted Britain's favourite poem.

Other notable poets who wrote about the war include Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, May Cannan and, from the home front, Hardy and Rudyard Kipling, whose inspirational poem If — is a national favourite.

Like William Ernest Henley's poem Invictus that has inspired such people as Nelson Mandela when he was incarcerated, If — is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism, regarded as a traditional British virtue.

Alma-Tadema's poem " If No One Ever Marries Me ", written in 1897 and published in Realms of Unknown Kings, saw performances as a song in the 21st century by Natalie Merchant on her double album Leave Your Sleep.

* " If —", the Rudyard Kipling poem

Rudyard Kipling's If — ( 1895 ), often voted Britain's favourite poem

To date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Kipling's novels include The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King and Kim, while his inspirational poem If — is a national favourite.

If Lodge, as has been supposed, was the Alcon in Colin Clout's Come Home Again, it may have been the influence of Edmund Spenser which led to the composition of Phillis, a volume of sonnets, in which the voice of nature seems only now and then to become audible, published with the narrative poem, The Complaynte of Elsired, in 1593.

If the book was returned he would try another patron with a new set of arms, altering personal references as required ; where the subject matter was shared ( as in a wedding ) much of the verse could be recycled from one poem to another, and the scholar F. C. Brown has noticed that as many as two-thirds of the lines in Settle's wedding poems are " common to all.

The poem's line, " If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same " is written on the wall of the Centre Court players ' entrance at the British tennis tournament, Wimbledon, and a part of the poem was read in a promotional video for the Wimbledon 2008 gentleman's final by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.