Next, Please (Philip Larkin Poem)
Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till ...
Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till ...
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly, Though the mind is meek. To be aware inwardly of brain and beauty ...
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The ...
No matter that my heart sinks, sighs, with the weight of skeletons- paths I forgot to follow have slowly sealed ...
professor piebald (the oldest man in the home) was meek at the same time ribald he clothed his matter (so ...
No one's despair is like my despair-- You have no place in this garden thinking such things, producing the tiresome ...
Still a mystery, I can't figure out; Race home from work, Where life is without. ***** I race to see ...
Are we silent refusing to be a prophet failing to serve living in silence Are we like Jonah living in ...
Even the death of evil taken by his choosing refusing to submit to stand in the dock of justice Saddened ...
Our choices calling us out the hands of the sinful on the heads of the innocents making them the sacrifice ...
Firing on the innocents gunning down the protesters coming from the time of prayers into the Square of the Martyrs ...
The agents of change demanding their freedom the despots refusing to give it to them What is happening to this ...
Sad, in our bodies, our hearts so heavy longing to follow yet refusing to let go what we carry that ...
The offering of God in the words of the prophet that they would be washed clean redeemed in his sight ...
The indictment of God the child of a faithful man Lo-Ammi (not my people) turning his face from them Are ...
Christ crying for our death shackles with sin for our unfaithfulness refusing to believe in him Bringing us back to ...
The words of the master changing the Seder words of the night before of his suffering and dying all too ...
Stripped utterly wearing a crown of thorns naked, dying feeling wholly alone In the darkness of midday the sun refusing ...
How unlike each other their reactions to the teachings, the healings, the ministry the true identity of Jesus The priest ...
In getting ready for the day the worship, the sermon the message on this gray, rainy day appropriate somehow knowing ...
The tablets, the commandments written in their hearts trusting in God, heeding his call Speaking with conviction power of the ...
The first commandment written on the tablets carried from the mountain by Moses of old, "You shall have no other ...
Before the fire the wrath of the king refusing to bow down to accept his as their god Holding fast ...
Sandals, for the traveling they would do the only thing mentioned, allowed by Christ sandals that would gather the dust ...
Those tongues of fire, on Pentecost born flames growing, spreading spreading among the people The power of Jesus' name Spirit-filled ...
Before the Sanhedrin, the Pharisees two fishermen stood, resolute beside them, in the Temple the healed beggar, witnesses to the ...
Integrity is standing up for what you believe in. It is treating everyone equally and fairly, acting independent of others ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
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