Dictionary Poems

It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. Discuss Bram Stoker

Though a man be wise, it is no shame for him to live and learn. Discuss Sophocles

Death … goes faster than the wind, and he never brings back what he takes. Discuss Hans Christian Andersen

I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro,Kept treading, treading, till it seemed That sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, A service like a drumKept beating, beating, till I thought My mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my … Continued

i My mother groan’d, my father wept;Into the dangerous world I leapt,Helpless, naked, piping loud,Like a fiend hid in a cloud. ii Struggling in my father’s hands,Striving against my swaddling-bands,Bound and weary, I thought bestTo sulk upon my mother’s breast. iii When I saw that rage was vain,And to sulk would nothing gain,Turning many a … Continued

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. Discuss William Shakespeare

BEAUTY crowds me till I die,Beauty, mercy have on me!But if I expire today,Let it be in sight of thee. – BEAUTY crowds me till I die by Emily Dickinson

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. Discuss Robert Louis Stevenson

There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it. Discuss E. M. Forster

It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared … You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say. Discuss Sherwood Anderson