A BIT OF GREAT POETRY

 

                A BIT OF GREAT POETRY

1.     John Keats (1795---1821)

       A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

It 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.

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Beauty is Truth, truth beauty, ----that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies

Where but to think is to be full of sorrow,

And leaden-eyed despairs;

Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,

Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow

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2.     Lord Byron (1788—1824)

Eternal spirit of the Chainless Mind!

Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art

For there thy habitation is the heart—

The heart which love of thee alone can bind;

And when thy sons to fetters are consigned---

Their country conquers with their martyrdom,

And Freedom’s fame finds wings on every wind.

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3.     Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Let knowledge grow from more to more

But more of reverence in us dwell

That mind and soul, according well,

May make one music as before.

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4.     .Chrisina Rossetti (1830-1894)

When I am dead, my dearest

Sing no sad songs for me

Plant thou no roses at my head

Nor, shady cypress tree

But the green grass above me

With showers and dewdrops wet:

And if thou wilt, remember

And if thou wilt, forget.

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5.Willim Wordsworth (1770---1850)

Thanks to the human heart by which we live

Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears,

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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G.R.Kanwal

6^th June 2026