Month: March 2018
“My Peace I Leave With You ~ A Poem by J. R. Dos Passos
My Peace I Leave With You
by J. R. Dos Passos
He pondered long, and watched the darkening space
Close the red portals whence the hours had run,
As like young wistful angels, one by one,
The stars cast timid flowers about His face.
“Yea, now another scarlet day is done!”
He cried in anguish, and with sudden grace
Stretched forth His arms, as though He would erase
The few, dim embers of the scattered sun.
“The scarlet day is done, and soon the light
Will wake again my desecrated skies.
Oh, that another dawn might never rise!—
My foolish children!” Through the vast of night
The young stars shivered in a silver horde
Before the Infinite Sorrow of their Lord.
Retrived from: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36508/36508-h/36508-h.htm
Today’s Quote on Love
The measure of love is love without measure.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Poem by Robert Frost ~ “A Time to Talk”
A TIME TO TALK
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29345/29345-h/29345-h.htm.
Quote ~ Chinese Proverb on Perseverance
THE gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ~
Chinese Proverb
Poem by Emily Dickinson on Life
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson – Poem retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2678/pg2678-images.html
William Faulkner’s Quote on Courage
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem about Love
UPON THE SAND.
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All love that has not friendship for its base
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Though brave its walls as any in the land,
And its tall turrets lift their heads in grace;
Though skilful and accomplished artists trace
Most beautiful designs on every hand,
And gleaming statues in dim niches stand,
And fountains play in some flow’r-hidden place:
Yet, when from the frowning east a sudden gust
Of adverse fate is blown, or sad rains fall,
Day in, day out, against its yielding wall,
Lo! the fair structure crumbles to the dust.
Love, to endure life’s sorrow and earth’s woe,
Needs friendship’s solid mason-work below.
The Singer ~ A Love Poem
The Singer
The singer only sang the Joy of Life,
For all too well, alas! the singer knew
How hard the daily toil, how keen the strife,
How salt the falling tear; the joys how few.
He who thinks hard soon finds it hard to live,
Learning the Secret Bitterness of Things:
So, leaving thought, the singer strove to give
A level lightness to his lyric strings.
He only sang of Love; its joy and pain,
But each man in his early season loves;
Each finds the old, lost Paradise again,
Unfolding leaves, and roses, nesting doves.
And though that sunlit time flies all too fleetly,
Delightful Days that dance away too soon!
Its early morning freshness lingers sweetly
Throughout life’s grey and tedious afternoon.
And he, whose dreams enshrine her tender eyes,
And she, whose senses wait his waking hand,
Impatient youth, that tired but sleepless lies,
Will read perhaps, and reading, understand.
Oh, roseate lips he would have loved to kiss,
Oh, eager lovers that he never knew!
What should you know of him, or words of his?—
But all the songs he sang were sung for you!
The Singer, in India’s Love Lyrics, retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8197/8197-h/8197-h.htm. author unknown.
Quote on Love by Mikhail Naimy
Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.
Mikhail Naimy
