Month: April 2022

Every soul that touches yours – Be it the slightest contact – Get there from some good; Some little grace; one kindly thought; One aspiration yet unfelt; One bit of courage For the darkening sky; One gleam of faith To brave the thickening ills of life; One glimpse of brighter skies – To make this … Read more

“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, “Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve many curious things to show when you are there.” “Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in … Read more

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water’d it in fears, Night and morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both … Read more

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. … Read more

It sat alone.What happened there is still today unknown.It is a very mysterious place,And inside you can tell it has a ton of space,But at the same time it is bare to the bone.At night the house seems to be alive,Lights flicker on and off.I am often tempted to go to the house,To just take … Read more

Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie. They, too, aware of sun and air and water, Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d. Their hands are … Read more

LIST OF POEMS Life – Henry Van Dyke I am Every Woman – Rakhi Nariani Shirke The Secret of the Machines – Rudyard Kipling The Ant and The Cricket – Adapted from Aesop’s fables No Men are Foreign – James Falconer Kirkup The House on Elm Street – Nadia Bush Stopping by Woods on a … Read more