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How Many Paltry Foolish Painted Things
How many paltry foolish painted things,
That now in coaches trouble every street,
Shall be forgotten, whom no poet sings,
Ere they be well wrapped in their winding-sheet!
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How Steep The Brave!  (by: Walter de la Mare)
Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve!
Not one of these poor men who died
But did within his soul believe
That death for thee was glorified
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Hyla Brook  (by: Robert Frost (1875 - 1963))
By June our brook's run out of song and speed.
Sought for much after that, it will be found...
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Hymn Of Man, The  (by: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931))
I have cleft the vast spaces of the infinite, and
taken flight in the world of fantasy, and drawn nigh
to the circle of light on high.
Yet behold me a captive of matter.
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I Envy Not In Any Moods  (by: Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892))
I envy not in any moods
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born within the cage,
That never knew the summer woods.
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Wisdom Poems Books

Ideals  (by: Helen Steiner Rice)
Remember that ideals
are like stars up in the sky,
You can never really reach them,
hanging in the heavens high ...
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If  (by: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936))
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies...
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If Recollecting Were Forgetting  (by: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
If recollecting were forgetting,
Then I remember not.
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Island Of Skyros, The  (by: John Masefield)
Here, where we stood together, we three men,
Before the war had swept us to the East
Three thousand miles away, I stand again
And hear the bells, and breathe, and go to feast.
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It Takes Courage  (by: Unknown)
It takes courage
To refrain from gossip
When others delight in it,
To stand up for the absent person
Who is being abused.
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