love makes the world go round

‘ SISTER, you’ve sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The clouds so darkly pile. That open book has lain, unread, For hours upon your knee; You’ve never smiled nor turned your head What can you, sister, see ? ‘ ************************** ‘ Come hither, Jane, look [...]

SOME have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I’d hazard death to-morrow. ************** Could the battle-struggle earn One kind glance from thine eye, How this withering heart would burn, The heady fight to try ! *************** Welcome nights of broken sleep, And days of carnage cold, Could [...]

THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may pass in gay confusion, And nights in rosy riot fly, While, lost in Fame’s or Wealth’s illusion, The memory of the Past may die. **************** But, [...]

So many fail because they don’t get started; they don’t go. W Clement Stone ****************** Those who insult others are usually describing themselves. Jay Huff ****************************** Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Ayn Rand ***************************** You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. Harry Firestone ***************************** [...]

A prisoner in a dungeon deep Sat musing silently; His head was rested on his hand, His elbow on his knee. Turned he his thoughts to future times Or are they backward cast? For freedom is he pining now Or mourning for the past? ***************** No, he has lived so long enthralled Alone in dungeon [...]

ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we’ve set ourselves! How still the lonely room appears! How strange this mass of ancient treasures, Mementos of past pains and pleasures; These volumes, clasped with costly stone, With print all faded, gilding gone; *************************** These fans of leaves, from [...]

From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved [...]

You may rejoice to think yourselves secure, You may be grateful for the gift divine, That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine. But is it sweet to look around and view Thousands excluded from that happiness, Which they deserve at least as much as [...]

He listened at the porch that day, To hear the wheel go on, and on; And then it stopped, ran back away, While through the door he brought the sun: But now my spinning is all done. ***************************** He sat beside me, with an oath That love ne’er ended, once begun; I smiled-believing for us [...]

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? [...]