Cites and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye Which daily die; But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spend and unconsidered Earth, The cities will rise again
Rudyard Kipling
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ISRAEL ZANGWILL Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dyi... ALFRED TENNYSON This is one hell of a suicide note. THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY- Yes! I've resolved the de... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH In the spring of life, in the flower of youth, Everything is bright and new. In the summer of... C.A. SCHLEA Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fea... WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Some flowers bloom beneath the biggest blue, while others prefer the shade; As... MICHELLE GEANEY Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... 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MIHAI EMINESCU The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dream Is laid upon thee, golden from the fire. Flinch ... ALFRED NOYES Respect every soul on this SOIL If you make them toil, there blood will BOIL <... THERISINGHUMAN Life has pounded me down and thrashed me around, Time and time again, But I always ge... SUZY KASSEM You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the v... MAYA ANGELOU Watch, how the sun slowly rises from behind my ear new lines, new countries SANOBER KHAN girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Blue Bird from The Last Night of the Earth Poems there’s a bluebird in my hear... CHARLES BUKOWSKI You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman. You can take your ... FIONA THRUST I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW An angel for some, a demon for some, for me, it’s heart of the one. Never want to h... ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Y... TERESA OF ÁVILA So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years- Twenty years largely wasted, the year... T.S. ELIOT To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot'... EDWARD THOMAS LOVE IS A FLOWER Treat your relationship As if you are growing The most beautif... SUZY KASSEM Suicide in the trenches: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty jo... SIEGFRIED SASSOON The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, W... LOUIS MACNEICE Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A WISH Sometimes I wish that he will live and I will see him. But m... COCO J. GINGER Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First ... ERASMUS DARWIN there are some poems that we leave behind some that leave us behind while some ... SANOBER KHAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting u... VICTOR HUGO As every blossom fades and all youth sinks into old age, so every life’s design, each fl... HERMANN HESSE Everything I have become, everything I will ever accomplish cannot compare to my most KAMAND KOJOURI How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're th... PAUL CELAN The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And ... ROBERT W. SERVICE Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your o... MARY OLIVER Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat c... ROBINSON JEFFERS there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him ou... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Season late, day late, sun just down, and the sky Cold gunmetal but with a wash of live rose, a... ROBERT PENN WARREN For the whole year long I see All the wonders of faithful Nature Still worked for the love of ... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The day I became a writer it wasn't the day a whore paid me in sex in exchange for one of ... 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It is as multidimensional SUZY KASSEM Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. O... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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RUDYARD KIPLING He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we f... RUDYARD KIPLING Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. RUDYARD KIPLING The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees. RUDYARD KIPLING Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of t... RUDYARD KIPLING . . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . . RUDYARD KIPLING And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall... RUDYARD KIPLING Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall kee... RUDYARD KIPLING Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ... RUDYARD KIPLING I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. RUDYARD KIPLING The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any... RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an... RUDYARD KIPLING If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch. RUDYARD KIPLING I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,... RUDYARD KIPLING Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child. RUDYARD KIPLING An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und... RUDYARD KIPLING A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot. RUDYARD KIPLING 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead. RUDYARD KIPLING Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B... RUDYARD KIPLING 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? RUDYARD KIPLING There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs. RUDYARD KIPLING It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ... RUDYARD KIPLING If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais... RUDYARD KIPLING The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go! RUDYARD KIPLING Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! RUDYARD KIPLING What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live? RUDYARD KIPLING Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law. RUDYARD KIPLING Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha... RUDYARD KIPLING There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid. RUDYARD KIPLING And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea! RUDYARD KIPLING There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B... RUDYARD KIPLING The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one RUDYARD KIPLING Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. RUDYARD KIPLING Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. RUDYARD KIPLING If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same. RUDYARD KIPLING When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade... RUDYARD KIPLING All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We An... RUDYARD KIPLING Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work. RUDYARD KIPLING What avail is honour or a sword against a pen? RUDYARD KIPLING I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus) RUDYARD KIPLING There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu... RUDYARD KIPLING I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf... RUDYARD KIPLING Threatened men live long. RUDYARD KIPLING Witta feared nothing - except to be poor. RUDYARD KIPLING It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it. RUDYARD KIPLING I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ... RUDYARD KIPLING East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet RUDYARD KIPLING