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Franklin Hyde  (by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953))
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle.
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Frog, The  (by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953))
Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog,"
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From The Arabic  (by: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822))
My faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
It panted for thee like the hind at noon
For the brooks, my love.
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George  (by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953))
When George's Grandmamma was told
That George had been as good as gold,
She promised in the afternoon
To buy him an Immense BALLOON.
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Give All To Love  (by: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882))
Let it have scope:
Follow it utterly,
Hope beyond hope:
High and more high
It dives into noon,
With wing unspent,
Untold intent;
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Lessons of Life Poems Books

Grief  (by: Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806 - 1861))
Grief for thy dead in silence like to death -
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
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Guilded Cage  (by: Lisa G. Leming)
The peacock's feathers make a spread
Of deepest blue with satin thread
Of gold that's spun acreoss a fan
And green that shimmers in the sun
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Heart Gifts  (by: Helen Steiner Rice)
It's not the things that can be bought
that are life's richest treasure,
It's just the little
"heart gifts"
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Her Death And After  (by: Thomas Hardy)
'Twas a death-bed summons, and forth I went
By the way of the Western Wall, so drear
On that winter night, and sought a gate--
The home, by Fate,
Of one I had long held dear.
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I Asked And Received  (by: Unknown)
I asked for Strength
And was given Difficulties to make me strong...
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