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On The Loss Of the Royal George  (by: William Cowper (1731 - 1800))
Toll for the brave!
The brave that are no more!
All sunk beneath the wave
Fast by their native shore.
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One Day  (by: Unknown)
Today is one day of your life,
tomorrow one day less.
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One Life  (by: Unknown)
Slow and steady, life goes on,
it is the speed we should strive for.
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Optimism  (by: A. Victor Ratcliffe)
At last there’ll dawn the last of the long year,
Of the long year that seemed to dream no end,
Whose every dawn but turned the world more drear,
And slew some hope, or led away some friend.
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Peace  (by: George Herbert (1593 - 1633))
Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,
Let me once know.
I sought thee in a secret cave,
And ask'd, if Peace were there,
A hollow wind did seem to answer, No:
Go seek elsewhere.
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Wisdom Poems Books

Philomela  (by: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888))
Hark! ah, the nightingale -
The tawny-throated!
Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
What triumph! hark! -what pain!
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Plaint  (by: Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849))
Dark, deep, and cold the current flows
Unto the sea where no wind blows,
Seeking the land which no one knows.
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Quip, The  (by: George Herbert (1593 - 1633))
The merry world did on a day
With his train-bands and mates agree
To meet together where I lay,
And all in sport to jeer at me.
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Rainy Day, The  (by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882))
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary...
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Risks  (by: Unknown)
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
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