The Pobble Who Has No Toes (Edward Lear Poem)
The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we; When they said "Some day you may lose ...
The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we; When they said "Some day you may lose ...
Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among trees and bushes rusted by Christmas frosts, the yards and hillsides exhausted by five years ...
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless Pool of the stars. (Expose yourself to it: you ...
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, Let us (said He) pour on him ...
Mary perceiving the wonderful opportunity to sit at the master's feet to hear his message love personified in our master, ...
In our relationships to one another, to the creator all of creation, the world what would it matter, would there ...
not blind faith, they acted with seeing eyes, perceiving understanding, at least in part what faith truly is believe not ...
In the cacophony of human lives the chatter, the rapid speaking shouting over one another How will we ever hear ...
Sabbath moments bit of sacred times within the walk of our lives the seconds, the moments the times when we ...
If only, you had been here, you could have healed him, stopped him from dying. Such was the limits of ...
A woman, unnamed but remembered for her act of love, of faith spend money, extravagantly lavished costly nard, oil on ...
When we let the moments of stillness bleed into us, they are there forever, to recall, even if ephemerally. It ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
Trust in the Unexpected -- By this -- was William Kidd Persuaded of the Buried Gold -- As One had ...
Extol thee -- could I? Then I will By saying nothing new -- But just the truest truth That thou ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Said Cotton to Corn, t'other day, As they met and exchang'd salute-- (Squire Corn in his carriage so gay, Poor ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
I. O Age that half believ'st thou half believ'st, Half doubt'st the substance of thine own half doubt, And, half ...
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