Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
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The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made:... ROBERT BROWNING even in death, his last breath was poetry existing in the wind and on the breeze of ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again A.E. HOUSMAN A mother's love is like an island In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway tes... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wa... MUNIA KHAN THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, It... ANTHONY THWAITE God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the ... WILLIAM COWPER RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce,... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a s... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white ha... PABLO NERUDA . . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones... LISEL MUELLER The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we li... T.S. ELIOT The Sun Going South In late sunshine I wander troubled. Restless I wander in autumn ... URSULA K. LE GUIN My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my father... SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hard... LUCRETIUS Her moral obligation to keep our hearts entwined. Her preeminent love, smelling like ... BRIAN D'AMBROSIO Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuria... ANNA AKHMATOVA In the spring of life, in the flower of youth, Everything is bright and new. In the summer of... C.A. SCHLEA Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steal... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steal... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There comes a point in life When you are neither brittle nor bitter, And every time someon... NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling... RUPERT BROOKE Butterfly Kisses Aged imperfections stitched upon my face years and years of wi... MUSE To Your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday come and gone, no more than a watch in the night. ANONYMOUS Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That ... ERNEST DOWSON The gospel brings tidings, glad tidings indeed, To mourners in Zion, who want to be freed, WILLIAM GADSBY No! I don’t love you! I just like you, a little. Your lips are sweet, an... ZORICA SAVRON who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gende... M.K In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies in... MARY OLIVER Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From “Rock Star” in Every Lyric Tells A Story. What happens to a rock star When he get... MARK WILKINS Child, as I look in your eyes You know my life seems like a minute There I find living proof... MICHAEL MCDONALD ...feel the fierce way desire tourniquets itself around you and clings Clubland... CLINT CATALYST This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With ... SHEL SILVERSTEIN This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination MARY OLIVER No one is exempt and everyone's pain has a different smell. At night, when all the... CRAIG RAINE Who was this women?' asked Harry. 'I dunno, some Ministry hag.' Mundungus considered for a... J.K. ROWLING This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; J.R.R. TOLKIEN Every morning before the birds start trilling me their stories, I give birth to a new... MUNIA KHAN I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That ... OMAR KHAYYáM Are we like two stars in a constellation Seeming so close And making so much sense Ye... JUSTIN WETCH Deep in the meadow, under the willow a bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your he... SUZANNE COLLINS In the Desert In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squ... STEPHEN CRANE This is one hell of a suicide note. THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY- Yes! I've resolved the de... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on cr... CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends KOBAYASHI ISSA Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you. Now you stand odd and strangely shaped! You were h... HERMANN HESSE Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lo... MARY OLIVER Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make c... ALLAN RUFUS Creed by Abigail Carroll, p.196-197 I believe in the life of the word, the diplomacy... SARAH ARTHUR We wear our lives Like costumes Use bills and coins like props In an over budget pro... SHANE L. KOYCZAN The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our hea... GERALD G. MAY Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more fait... ALFRED TENNYSON Though we might have precious little It's still precious I like that song about this... RUSH Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my f... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. 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They are not ever jealous for the cause,
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The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE