burden Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

After the Baptism (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

The instant, the moment, the second he was baptized, touched by the spirit, he began, using the gifts, he had ...

Not by Our Works (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

We are saved, not by works, not by our deeds By his love, his sacrifice by his taking our yoke, ...

Who Do You Say I Am (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

What a question, what a test putting it on the line, with him right there in your face, after the ...

Costs not Expenses (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

A fine line in the sand of import to find balance of equities costs yes, expenses no parsing subtleties of ...

Cornish Lullaby (Eugene Field Poem)

Out on the mountain over the town, All night long, all night long, The trolls go up and the trolls ...

The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...

The Eel Pie (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...

A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books (Robert Frost Poems)

Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...

Love and a Question (Robert Frost Poem)

A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in ...

The Choir Invisible (George Eliot Poem)

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...

Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot Poem)

I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...

Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)

I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...

Sonnet LIX: As Love and I (Michael Drayton Poem)

As Love and I, late harbor'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain: "In Love there is no ...

Under Siege (Mahmoud Darwish Poem)

Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...

Visitation (Mark Doty Poem)

When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...

At the Gym (Mark Doty Poem)

This salt-stain spot marks the place where men lay down their heads, back to the bench, and hoist nothing that ...

The White Bees (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...

The Name of France (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

Give us a name to fill the mind With the shining thoughts that lead mankind, The glory of learning, the ...

Peace (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...

Jesus, Thou Divine Companion (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

Jesus, Thou divine Companion, By Thy lowly human birth Thou hast come to join the workers, Burden bearers of the ...

The Made to Order Smile (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)

When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes, And her brows are half uplifted in ...

High from the earth I heard a bird, (Emily Dickinson Poem)

High from the earth I heard a bird, He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then ...

Rearrange a “Wife’s” affection! (Emily Dickinson Poems)

Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, ...

It seldom snowed – Part III (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

It seldom snowed they said, and they were nearly right. In all of nine eventful seasons crystal white on average ...

Dreams of a lifetime (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Ronald Hi Khong Wong is gone, sadly he deceased the commencement of this week. It wasn't unexpected. He never contradicted ...

Leaf Sermon (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)

I have been spiritually poisoned by the unclean, in ignorance blessed their springs. In consequence I withered and drifted down ...

True Pleasures (William Cowper Poem)

Lord, my soul with pleasure springs When Jesu's name I hear: And when God the Spirit brings The word of ...

The Interpreter (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...

The Interpreter (Aleister Crowley Poem)