Tag Archive for: Silence
The Respite
Philosophy and WisdomTHE RESPITE
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Now, night, dun-winged, upon a stressful world descends,
With calm decree of silence, and day's fanfare ends;
Freed souls steal down dim aisles shading sea of sleep, to
Awhile to drift, like ships becalmed upon the deep
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The Heaviest Cross
Philosophy and WisdomTHE HEAVIEST CROSS
Edgar M More
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It must be pitiful to bear great blame,
All undeserved, sure that with open scorn,
Or unclean jests of their own vileness born,
Or covert sneers, vile lips repeat your name
To know that honest men whom…
The Little Heroine
Philosophy and WisdomThe Little Heroine
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"Eay, who will climb the belfry tower
And cut cut that banner down;
All broken in the Austrian's power,
They gullop from the town
"And surely the an Idie taunt
With this day's victory gained,
To see you painted…
The November Moon
Philosophy and WisdomThe silvery moon looks down, looks down
From her balcony in the skies
On n somber wood of russet and brown
With wide and wondering eyes
And she looks in valu on will and plain
For the grave where summer les,
For the dalsy is dead and the…
The Spirit Of The Fall
Philosophy and WisdomTHE SPIRIT OF THE FALL
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Beside a woodland stream whose waters brawl,
All pensive, sits the Spirit of the Fall
Her garments brown and gold, her shoul- ders bare,
Her bosom curtained by her loosened hair
Her brow entwined with maple leaves…
Sonnet To The Laugh Of A Child
Philosophy and WisdomSonnet to the Laugh of a Child
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Golden music fashioned by the stars,
And chanted by the fairies in the gloom-
In the gray and ghostly gloom
Where the whitened birches loom,
And the summer's sliken vestures
Hold a rare and rich perfume,
Oh,…
His Highness Heir-Apparent Of Tomorrow
Philosophy and WisdomHIS HIGHNESS HEIR-APPARENT OF TOMORROW
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His Highness, heir-apparent morrow, of to-
Has joined our happy circle; naked he came;
And of his need he was constrained to borrow
Ralment and food and…
Silence Is Golden
Philosophy and WisdomSilence is Golden
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Silence is Golden Youn
When I was joined to Minnie, she, like many of her sex,
Was prone to talk so ceaselessly my patience she would vex;
But I have trained her to be still whene'er I crook my thumb;
I've got her fund…
The Man With The Hoe
Philosophy and WisdomThe Man With the Hoe
EDWIN MARKHAM
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Written after seeing the painting by Millet)
"God made man in His own image:
In His own Image made He him"-Genesis
Bowed with the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,…
Rememebtance
Philosophy and WisdomRememebtance
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Soft! and low the music came,
And yet it every crevice filled;
Strains of melody so sweet
That s'en the mocking bird was stilled
And then there came the silence, doe
When every note had passed away,
Leaving naught but…
Reading The Appointments
Philosophy and WisdomReading the Appointments
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I was sitting in a wing slip, near the stern rail,
When the Bishop oarne in softly, with a face rene but pale,
And a silence indescribably pathetic in its power,
Such as might have reigned in heaven then that ''space…