At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In wild purple of the glow’ring sun, Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one, Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire. The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed With bombs and guns and shovels and battle-gear, [...]
When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultliness of things. And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate. When I can look life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise. Life will have given me the truth. And taken in exchange-my youth. ************************ Love makes The World Go [...]
We who are left, how shall we look again happily on the sun and feel the rain, Without remembering how they who went Ungridgingly and spent Their all for us loved, too, the sun and the rain? ************* A bird among the rain-wet lilac sings- but we, how shall we turn to little things And [...]
Now you will feel no rain. For each of you will be a shelter to the other. ***** Now you will feel no cold. For each of you will be warmth to the other. ***** Now there is no loneliness for you; Now there is no more loneliness. ***** Now you are two bodies, But [...]
Out of the night that covers me. Black as the pit from pole to pole. I think whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. ****** In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. ****** Beyond this place of [...]
One man in a thousand, Soloman says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it’s worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety nine depend On what the world sees in you. But the tousandth man will stand your friend With the whole round [...]
If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s, breathing [...]
What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growning gray, Leaving all that here can win us; What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away? ******* Is it a purblind prank, O think you Friend with the musing eye, Who watch [...]
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The Brain is wider than the Sky, For put them side by side, The one the other will contain With ease and You beside. ********** The Brain is deeper than the sea, For hold them Blue to Blue, The one the other will absorb, As Sponges Buckets do. ********** The Brain is just the weight [...]
It amazes me how many people spend their lives practicing becoming a failure. They then get angry because they never get success and they justify their failure by telling themselves that there is something wrong with them or luck is against them. This is totally untrue as the reason that they fail is not because [...]
