LXVIII. The difference between a Philosopher and another Man (Ellis Walker Poems)
When men of shallow heads themselves advanceAbove their usual pitch of ignorance,To talk of maxims and of rules; forbearTo interpose ...
Poems about principles (21 Poems)
VIII. Things dependent or not dependent on us (Ellis Walker Poems)
In things that charm the soul, which love incite,By nature's force, use, profit, or delight.Beginning from the meanest things, that ...
To A Friend, With A Present Of A Purse (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
THIS purse which you see was intended for you,In its nature is firm, in its principle true:And when the same ...
Clerihew – Mill (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
John Stuart Mill,By a mighty effort of will,Overcame his natural bonhomieAnd wrote 'Principles of Economy.'(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
On Being Human (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities ...
A Pastoral Dialogue (Melibæus, Alcippe, Asteria, Licida, Alcimedon, and Amira. ) (Anne Killigrew Poem)
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
Vanity (I) (George Herbert Poem)
The fleet astronomer can bore And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing mind: He views theirs stations, walks from door ...
Challenging Our Friends (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Greatness will be defined how history will judge challenging our friends not merely fighting our enemies stating clear principles applying ...
Words chosen for a nation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Somehow, the wisdom of the founders, right these words he will join, as all who have gone before right to ...
Words that Bind (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In this moment in time with struggle and strife, war and oppression challenging threatening our world Words that bind, that ...
Torture (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
WE don't torture, once a clear mantra, creed truth about our nation what we would never do No more, no ...
Study (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Study, argue, think Lawyers share common bonds with Artists How novel, how strange These seven boxes of time and space ...
Sweeney Erect (T. S. Eliot Poem)
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
My enemy my friend (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
My enemy my friend whom I know without compromise, when I listened to the deconstructions avowed of you as your ...
Preface to Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Michael Robartes And The Dancer (William Butler Yeats Poems)
He. Opinion is not worth a rush; In this altar-piece the knight, Who grips his long spear so to push ...
Hymn 143 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Characters of the children of God. From several scriptures. So new-born babes desire the breast, To feed, and grow, and ...
M’Fingal – Canto IV (John Trumbull Poems)
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Another On The Same (John Milton Poems)
Here lieth one who did most truly prove, That he could never die while he could move, So hung his ...