GREAT LINS FROM GRAT POEM (PART EIGHT)

 

GREAT LINS FROM GRAT POEM

                                      (PART  EIGHT)

1.“Forward, the Light Brigade!”

Was there a man dismay’d?

Not tho’ the soldier knew

Someone had blunder’d:

Theirs not to make reply,

Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.---------Alfred Tennyson.

 

2. The woods are lovely dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.-------Robert Frost.

 

3. Riches I hold in light esteem,

And Love I laugh to scorn;

And lust of fame was but a dream

That vanished with the morn

And if I pray, the only prayer

That moves my lips for me

Is. “Leave the heart that now I bear

And give me liberty.-------Emily Bronte.  

 

4. Oh, sweet content, that turns the labourer’s sweat

To tears of joy, and shines the roughest face :

How often have I sought you high and low,

And found you still in some lone quiet place.------William Henry Davies.

 

5. I live for those who love me,

Whose hearts are kind and true ;

For the heaven that smiles above me,

And awaits my spirit too;

For all human ties that bind me,

For the task by God assigned me,

For the bright hopes left behind me,

And the good that I can do.-------G. L. BANKS.

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Compiler: G. R. Kanwal

24 October 2025