LINE FROM GREAT POMS (PART TWO)

 

LINE FROM GREAT POMS

              (PART  TWO)

               

1.      I slept and dreamt that life was Beauty

I woke and found that life was Duty:

Was then the dream a shadowy lie?

Toil on, sad heart, courageously,

And thou shalt find thy dream to be

A noonday light and truth to thee.----Ellen S. Hooper.

 

2.     A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.----John Keats.

 

3.     Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!---

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.-----Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 

4.     I want to travel the common road

With the great crowd surging by,

Where there’s many a laugh and many a load,

And many a smile and sigh…..

 

I want to laugh with the common man

Wherever he chance to be,

I want to aid him when I can

Whenever there’s need of me.------Silas H. Perkins.

 

5.     There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,

Can circumvent or hinder or control

The firm resolve of a determined soul.

Gifts count for nothing ; will alone is great;

All things give way before it, soon or late.-----Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

 

6.     He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him;

He who knows, and knows that he knows, is asleep, wake him;

He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him….Persian Proverb.

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Compiler: G. R. Kanwal

18^th October 2025