Dictionary Poems

When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, and neither will go from the trail,Lie down till the leaders have spoken—it may be fair words shall prevail. Discuss Rudyard Kipling

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Discuss Arthur Conan Doyle

With you, my heart is quiet here,And all my thoughts are cool as rain.I sit and let the shifting yearGo by before the windowpane,And reach my hand to yours, my dear . . .I wonder what it’s like in Spain. – The Thin Edge by Dorothy Parker

On this festive first of May,Wending wistfully my wayThree sad sights I saw today. The first was such a lovely ladHe lit with grace the sordid street;Yet in a monk’s robe he was clad,With tonsured head and sandalled feet.Though handsome as a movie starHis eyes had holiness in them,As if he saw afaint, afarA stable-stall … Continued

I HEARD the old, old men say,‘Everything alters,And one by one we drop away.’They had hands like claws, and their kneesWere twisted like the old thorn-treesBy the waters.I heard the old, old men say,‘All that’s beautiful drifts awayLike the waters.’ – The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. Discuss H.G. Wells

Assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong. Booker T. Washington

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? Discuss Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘Come, see,’ said he, ‘my four-foot shelf, A forty volume row;And every one I wrote myself, But that, of course, you know.’I stared, I searched a memory dim, For though an author too,Somehow I’d never heard of him,– None of his books I knew. Said I: ‘I’d like to borrow one, Fond memories to recall.’Said … Continued

Behold, the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket”—which is but a manner of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention”; but the wise man saith, “Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket!” Discuss Mark Twain