Progress (Matthew Arnold Poem)
The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. He saw a fire in his disciples' eyes; 'The old law', they ...
The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. He saw a fire in his disciples' eyes; 'The old law', they ...
1 Faster, faster, 2 O Circe, Goddess, 3 Let the wild, thronging train 4 The bright procession 5 Of eddying ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
The Youth Faster, faster, O Circe, Goddess, Let the wild, thronging train The bright procession Of eddying forms, Sweep through ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
'Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green, And the pale weaver, through ...
Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind?-- He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men, Saw ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size for those warm blanks in speech, ...
In the secular night you wander around alone in your house. It's two-thirty. Everyone has deserted you, or this is ...
All those times I was bored out of my mind. Holding the log while he sawed it. Holding the string ...
There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win ...
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when ...
The truest friends, how few they are. Still time, it seems, must take them far to God knows where and ...
It's easy to fight when everything's right, And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer ...
Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new, If you have ...
Promise yourself: To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind; To talk health, happiness, and prosperity ...
I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your ...
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