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Debt, The  (by: Edward Verall Lucas)
No more old England will they see—
Those men who’ve died for you and me.
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Don't Quit  (by: Unknown)
When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill...
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Doubt  (by: Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885))
They bade me cast the thing away,
They pointed to my hands all bleeding,
They listened not to all my pleading;
The thing I meant I could not say;
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Dream Called Life, The  (by: Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883))
A dream it was in which I found myself.
And you that hail me now, then hailed me king,
In a brave palace that was all my own,
Within, and all without it, mine; until,
Drunk with excess of majesty and pride,
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Everything We Do  (by: Unknown)
We may not always realize
that everything we do
Affects not only our lives
but touches others too.
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Lessons of Life Poems Books

Fairly Sad Tale, A  (by: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967))
I think that I shall never know
Why I am thus, and I am so.
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Father And Son  (by: Edgar A. Guest)
Be more than his dad,
Be a chum to the lad;
Be a part of his life
Every hour of the day...
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Foes  (by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919))
All blinded by the crimson glow
Of sin's disguise I tempted Fate.
"I knew thy weakness!" sneered my foe,
I saved myself, and balked his hate...
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Fool Errant, The  (by: Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925))
The Fool Errant sat by the highway of life
And his gaze wandered up and his gaze wandered down,
A vigorous youth, but with no wish to walk,
Yet his longing was great for the distant town.
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Four Quartets  (by: Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965))
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all out exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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