GREAT LINES FROM GREAT POEMS (PART NINE)

 

 

                   GREAT LINES FROM GREAT POEMS

                                       (PART  NINE)

1.     Blessed am I that I am born to this land and that I had the luck to love her.

What care I if queenly treasure is not in her store but precious enough is for me the living wealth of her love.

The best gift of fragrance to my heart is from her

Own flowers and I know not where else

Shines the moon that can flood my being

With such loveliness. ----- Rabindranath Tagore.      

 

2.     Rise ! if the Past detains you,

Her sunshine and storms forget;

No chains so unworthy to hold you

As those of a vain regret:

 

Sad or bright, she is lifeless ever,

Cast her phantom arms away,

Nor look back, save to learn the lesson

Of a nobler strife today.----------A. A. Procter.

 

3.     Let us remember, whenever we are told,

To hate our brothers, it is ourselves

That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.

Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.-----James Kirkup.

 

4.     “Ah! Lady, we receive but what we give

And  in our life alone does nature live.” ---

S. T. Coleridge to William Wordswworth’s sister.

 

5.“I would drink life to the lees”. ----Ulysses in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem of that title.

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Compiler: G.R.Kanwal

25 October 2025

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