Proverbs 3:5 – Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding – Meaning, Interpretations and Symbolism Verse Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding –…
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Sonnet 104
Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old By William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters…
Sonnet 43
Sonnet 43: Exploring Enduring Beauty and Joy By William Shakespeare Original text of Sonnet 43 (Shakespeare) reads: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” (The full poem is available in standard editions of Shakespeare’s Sonnets; the opening quatrain and…
The Bright Lights of Sarajevo
The Bright Lights of Sarajevo By Tony Harrison After the hours that Sarajevans pass Queuing with empty canisters of gas to get the refills they wheel home in prams, or queuing for the precious meagre grams of bread they’re rationed…
The Waking
The Waking Author unknown I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know?…
Lot’s Wife
Lot’s Wife By Anna Akhmatova And the just man trailed God’s shining agent, over a black mountain, in his giant track, while a restless voice kept harrying his woman: “It’s not too late, you can still look back at the…
The Garden
The Garden By Andrew Marvell How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bay, And their unceasing labors see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow shade Prudently upbraids their toils; While…
September Midnight
September Midnight By Sara Teasdale Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper’s horn, far off, high in the…
Youth and Age
Youth and Age By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee— Both were mine! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! When I was young?—Ah, woful…
Daystar
Daystar By Rita Dove She wanted a little room for thinking; but she saw diapers steaming on the line, a doll slumped behind the door. So she lugged a chair behind the garage to sit out the children’s naps. Sometimes…
Solomon Grundy
Solomon Grundy By Anonymous Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end, Of Solomon Grundy Understanding “Solomon Grundy”…
Row Row Row Your Boat
Row, Row, Row Your Boat Row, row, row your boat Gently up the creek If you see a little mouse Don’t forget to squeak! Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream If you see a crocodile Don’t forget…
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Lizzie Borden Took an Axe By Anonymous Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks, And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Summary of “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe” This concise…
New Day’s Lyric
New Day’s Lyric By Amanda Gorman May this be the day We come together. Mourning, we come to mend, Withered, we come to weather, Torn, we come to tend, Battered, we come to better. Tethered by this year of yearning,…
Gretel in Darkness
Gretel in Darkness By Louise Glück This is the world we wanted. All who would have seen us dead are dead. I hear the witch’s cry break in the moonlight through a sheet of sugar: God rewards. Her tongue shrivels…
The Dash
The Dash By Linda Ellis I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend He referred to the dates on the tombstone From the beginning…to the end He noted that first came the date…
Dreams
Dreams By Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Summary of Dreams…
Footsteps of Angels
Footsteps of Angels By John Blockley When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim…
Hummingbird Symbolism
Symbolism of Hummingbird in Literature Hummingbird as symbolism in literature is rare but used worldwide to express beauty. They are depicted as captivating creatures in art as well as written literature, such as legends, folklore, and mythologies. One of the…
John 3:16
Verse For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Meaning of John 3:16 The verse John 3:16 is called a statement of faith.…