LIFELONG THOUGHTS
Thoughts that get printed on a
reader’s mind and inspire him frequently are not meant for a day but for
endless years to come. They never become stale who has absorbed them and at no
time cease to delight and uplift his heart, mind and soul.
Look at the following extracts from
the writings of great poets:
1.
The
Lord has bound me with the cotton-thread of love. I am His bondslave.---16th century mystic and poet Mirabai (1499 ?-1547).
2.
When
all thy mercies O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I’m lost
In wonder, love and praise. ----Poet and essayist Joseph Addison
1672-1719).
3.
The
charities that soothe and heal and bless,
Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. ---American poet H.W.Longfellow (1807-1882).
4.
I
live to hail that season,
By gifted minds
foretold,
When men shall
live by reason,
And not alone by
gold,
When man to man
united,
And every wrong
thing righted,
The whole world
shall be lighted
As Eden was of
old. -------G.L.Banks, British
journalist and editor (1821- 1881).
5.A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night-
It was the plant and flower of Light.
In small proportions
we just beauties see
And in short measures
life may perfect be. -------English poet and playwright ---Ben Jonson (1572-1637).
6.
Remember,
no men are strange, no countries foreign,
Beneath all
uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours; the
land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like
this, in which we all shall lie. …..
Remember they have
eyes like ours that wake
Or sleep, and
strength that can be won
By love. In every
land is common life
That all can
recognize and understand.
Let us remember,
whenever we are told
To hate our
brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall
dispossess, betray, condemn.
Remember we who
take arms against each other. ---James
Kirkup, English poet and translator (1918-2009).
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G.R.Kanwal
15 June 2025
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