There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin, Never mind silent fields – Here is a little forest, Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear [...]
October
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops – at all. *********** And sweetest, in the Gale is heard, And sore must be the storm , That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm. *********** I’ve heard it in [...]
October
15
Nobody knows this little Rose, It might a pilgrim be, Did I not take it from the ways And lift it up to thee. Only a Bee will miss it , Only a Butterfly, Hastening from far journey , On its breast to lie , Only a Bird will wonder , Only a Breeze will [...]
The nights are getting colder, The winter is drawing nigh, “I must be getting older,” I am thinking with a sigh, It never used to bother me I’d go out with the crowd We would go out dancing The music right up loud. ******** We’d trip the light fantasic, We didn’t have a care, All [...]
The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! ************************ Like an army defeated The snow hath [...]
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. ************* Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.” ************ The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. ************ I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me [...]
Your mindset is the only thing that stops you from living the life that you truly deserve. We are constantly told from childhood that people like us do not get rich and that we have to work hard just to survive. When we try to get ahead other people constantly put us down with negative [...]
Morning, evening, noon and night, “Praise God!;” sang Theocrite. ****** Then to his poor trade he turned, Whereby the daily meal was earned. ****** Hard he laboured, long and well; O’er his work the boy’s curls fell. ****** But ever, at each period, He stopped and sang, “Praise God!” ****** Then back again his curls [...]
I’ve a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books I write; They find such favour in his sight That he slaughters you with savage looks Because you don’t admire my books. He does himself though,—and if some vein Were to snap to-night in this [...]
Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck’d with pomp by thee! Thy wond’rous acts in beauteous order stand, And all attest how potent is thine hand. ******************** From Helicon’s refulgent heights attend, Ye sacred choir, and my attempts befriend: To tell her glories with a faithful tongue, Ye blooming [...]
