The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Give way, give way, ye gates, and win An easy blessing to your bin And basket, by our entering in. ...
Ye have been fresh and green, Ye have been fill'd with flowers; And ye the walks have been Where maids ...
Come, come away Or let me go; Must I here stay Because you're slow, And will continue so; --Troth, lady, ...
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
I In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, Wrought with pilaster, bay, and balustrade In tactful times when shrewd Eliza ...
Good people all, with one accord Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word,- From those who spoke ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Today you walk down the street, And do just what you please; Making crooked deals in allies, As if no ...
What do we risk in this life if we stand in the background if we speak but do not act ...
By the choices we are making standing by, complacent cruel choices holding on to the treasures of this world They ...
The springs in the deserts the water for the people all of these starting starting with love Our hearts are ...
I pray that this moment this part of the story would pour over us like water that we would see ...
Asked by John's disciples the one preparing the way if he was the one foretold of the king come to ...
Giving, as a servant sacrificially offering an example of Christ like the washing of their feet Giving of ourselves our ...
Wondering for a moment the opposite of our current, our driven world, what it would be like to be satisfied, ...
with her needle, her thread making tunics, other clothes for the widows, the poor serving, using her gifts her ordinary ...
Out of the bounty, the faithful gifts the community was fed, all were cared for to each as any had ...
Each one of us, a precious thread unique in all the world, made by our Creator; but made to be ...
Gathering goods food for the needy brought bit by bit, bag and box to the altar of God offerings from ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
You awaken this time with a welcoming smile, an experience sublime, not a dream - the boner from Hell has ...
Come, kings, and listen to my song: When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations of the North His ...
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text) May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon, how I in harsh ...
Awhirl with events, packed with jobs one too many, the day slowly sinks as the night shadows fall. There are ...
Hungry and cold, I stood in a doorway on Delancey Street in 1946 as the rain came down. The worst ...
At midnight, death's and truth's unlocking time, When far within the spirit's hearing rolls The great soft rumble of the ...
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