love makes the world go round

Long ago in a poultry yard One dull November morn, Beneath a motherly soft wing A little goose was born. ******************* Who straightway peeped out of the shell To view the world beyond, Longing at once to sally forth And paddle in the pond. ******************** “Oh! be not rash,” her father said, A mild Socratic [...]

You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of ‘im that’s got it. Now in Injia’s sunny clime, Where I used to spend [...]

The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done, I am, as it is bliss to be, Still and untroubled. Now, I see, For the first time, how soft the day O’er waveless water, stirless tree, Silent and sunny, wings its way. Now, as I watch [...]

Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life’s gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness to immortal power! ******************************** Bending beneath the weight of eighty years Spent with the noble strife of a victorious life We watched her fading heavenward, through our tears. ********************************* But ere the sense of loss [...]

IF thou be in a lonely place, If one hour’s calm be thine, As Evening bends her placid face O’er this sweet day’s decline; If all the earth and all the heaven Now look serene to thee, As o’er them shuts the summer even, One moment-think of me ! ********************* Pause, in the lane, returning [...]

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Here, here I am again And I’m staring at these same four walls Alone again And now, all the colors blend And I’m growing numb and I’ve become This empty page ******** Hold on, its tragic Stumbling through all this static ******** I just wanna talk to you And my broken heart just has no [...]

Little shadows, little shadows Dancing on the chamber wall, While I sit beside the hearthstone Where the red flames rise and fall. Caps and nightgowns, caps and nightgowns, My three antic shadows wear; And no sound they make in playing, For the six small feet are bare. ********************** Dancing gayly, dancing gayly, To and fro [...]

Which is the weakest thing of all Mine heart can ponder? The sun, a little cloud can pall With darkness yonder? The cloud, a little wind can move Where’er it listeth? The wind, a little leaf above, Though sere, resisteth? ************************ What time that yellow leaf was green, My days were gladder; But now, whatever [...]

WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, From tears and sadness free. *************** And, haply, Death unstrings his bow And Sorrow stands apart, And, for a little while, we know The sunshine of the heart. **************** Existence seems a summer eve, Warm, [...]