WHEN by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my "mind's eye" flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
...
MOTLEY I count the only wear
That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise,
Who boldly smile upon despair
And shake their bells in Grandam Grundy's eyes.
...
I think we are too ready with complaint
In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope
Indeed beyond the zenith and the slope
Of yon gray blank of sky, we might grow faint
...
No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
...
I will confess
With cheerfulness,
Love is a thing so likes me,
That, let her lay
...
No sun--no moon!
No morn--no noon!
No dawn--no dusk--no proper time of day--
No sky--no earthly view--
...
The birds sing with lyrical affluence,
The butterflies dance in thrilling indulgence,
The breeze whistles in frisky cheerfulness,
The spring rejoices in her own opulence!
...
Coldly, sadly descends
The autumn-evening. The field
Strewn with its dank yellow drifts
Of wither'd leaves, and the elms,
...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,
The not-incurious in God's handiwork
(This man's-flesh he hath admirably made,
Blown like a bubble, kneaded like a paste,
...
From brightening fields of ether fair disclosed,
Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes,
In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth:
...
She must be honest, both in thought and deed,
Of generous impulse, and above all greed;
Not seeking praise, or place, or power, or pelf,
But life’s best blessings for her higher self,
...
AS a strong bird on pinions free,
Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
Such be the thought I'd think to-day of thee, America,
...
WHEN first I came here I had hope,
Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat
My heart at the sight of the tall slope
Or grass and yews, as if my feet
...
I SAW old General at bay;
(Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars;)
His small force was now completely hemm'd in, in his works;
...
"Do you give thanks for this? -- or that?"
No, God be thanked
I am not grateful
In that cold, calculating way, with blessing ranked
...
Where graced with many a classic spoil
Cam rolls his reverend stream along,
I haste to urge the learned toil
...
BOOK I
Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide
...
WHAT sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard
Up to thy summit, through the depth of air
Ascending, as if distance had the power
...
Do the Math, use a pen,
Take your time read this well,
You will see why you should consider me.
...
According to Culture Shock:
A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
of Filipinos, when my husband says yes,
he could also mean one of the following:
...
I
The God of Love-'ah, benedicite!'
How mighty and how great a Lord is he!
...
OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze,
A visitant that while it fans my cheek
Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings
...
Happy Birthday My Dear Son-
Tarun Mehta
Wednesday,11th Aug 2021
...
An Ode for Music
When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung,
...
HE.
Halt here awhile. That mossy-cushioned seat
Is for your queenliness a natural throne;
As I am fitly couched on this low sward,
...
In one of those excursions (may they ne'er
Fade from remembrance!) through the Northern tracts
Of Cambria ranging with a youthful friend,
...
Being clouds of light in this horizon,
Swimming in your golden ocean we are,
Feathers of wisdom of creation of joy,
We have captured emotion in light.
...
I
The coast-road was being straightened and repaired again,
A group of men labored at the steep curve
...
With cheers and
Wednesday,11th Aug 2021
Going Down
...
A golden carpet spread vast and wide,
Bringing us before, a dancing silvery deluge!
As if a new pink bud waking up,
From its deep and deep sleep;
...
Still Looking For You
There is the shadow of the maple trees
In many crown leaves I'm looking for you
...
``Why, on this drear December morn,
Dost thou, lone Misselthrush, rehearse thy chanting?
The corals have been rifled from the thorn,
...
Cleanliness! Cleanliness! Cleanliness!
Cleanliness ever gives you happiness! happiness! happiness!
For cleanliness is next to Godliness! Godliness! Godliness!
...
A MOUNTAIN stream, its channel deep
Beneath a rock's rough base had torn;
The cliff, like a vast castle wall, was steep
...
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
...
O soul of mine, look out and see
My bride, my bride that is to be!
Reach out with mad, impatient hands,
And draw aside futurity
...
Love is colorless, crystal water,
naïve and righteous
life of all creations.
...
OH Truth! immortal daughter of the skies,
Too lyttle known to wryters of these daies,
Teach me, fayre Saincte! hy passynge worthe to pryze,
...
A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze
That murmurs welcome in the bending trees,
When the cold shadowy foe of life departs,
...
Nature has several messages,
In its own curious ways,
When the monsoon arrives with a thunder,
The nature glows with wonder!
...
Thence we went on to the Aeoli island where lives Aeolus son of
Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods. It is an island that floats (as
it were) upon the sea, iron bound with a wall that girds it. Now,
Aeolus has six daughters and six lusty sons, so he made the sons marry
...
LOVELY nymph! with eye serene,
Dimpled smile and frolic mien;
Come, with airy step advancing,
Come, with blooming Hebe dancing;
...
Friendship is like a bunch of flowers tied together,
Happiness and solitude for some auspicious moments rather.
Friendship bears the sorrows and happiness of two souls,
It also bears misfortunes and disasters in various moulds.
...
Once upon a wedding day
A couple joined in a close association
with hopes of love and good fortune to stay
That brought a state of euphoria to them
...
Approaching now the end of his abode
On earth, Consalvo lay; complaining once,
Of his hard fate, but now quite reconciled,
...
~ OLoLoLouuud! ! ! ~
Ms. Nivedita
UK
...
Like a little bird this mind is
This is ruffling the feathers
Many thoughts have many wings
Mind is ruffling to remove dusts.
...
Laughter, playing a flute,
writing poems are not commodities.
Can a hungry man
feed on them?
...
House we name for structure
Used for purpose to live in there
It may have spacious lawns
And owner to own
...
Now westward Sol had spent the richest beams
Of noon's high glory, when, hard by the streams
Of Tiber, on the scene of a green plat,
...
In our wedding night
I saw the bright stars
Promising us happiness
Through all days to come
...
With shining feat
Tuesday,8th October 2018
The life is the cage
...
Yes! there are real mourners - I have seen
A fair, sad girl, mild, suffering, and serene;
Attention (through the day) her duties claim'd,
...
The tree of life
It has a branch
A money making branch
...
Billions of butterflies dance in my stomach - every time
Your eyes meet mine in the holy rain;
Every time I look at you is like the very first time!
As days go by and by, my love grows like mushrooms in the rain,
...
Capricious life sees beauty of day of full moonlight,
Night has worn garland of stars around full neck,
Around a single full moon, there are many stars,
We are counting them age after age with calmness.
...
She walks with an air of confidence,
Drawing stares of awe from many;
What’s behind the smile she wears?
Must be contentment of past and present.
...
'WHAT is a Church?'--Let Truth and Reason speak,
They would reply, 'The faithful, pure, and meek;
From Christian folds, the one selected race,
...
Yes, tiny world
With no relation as cold
But warm and resourceful
For keeping life cheerful
...
Love stays for ever as
Fragrance remains forever
Neither from flowers
Nor from showers
...
I want to be of my own
Not famous or known
I want simple hut to live with
The sound health with strong teeth
...
In Windsor Terrace, number four,
I’ve taken my abode—
A little crescent from the street,
A bight from City Road;
...
The morn gets up with a sparkling eye,
And a cheek like a hawthorn berry,
And sendeth her herald to the sky,
To twitter his song so merry:
He's the eldest born
...
Vagueness is out of order
Clarity conquers each step
Out of the border it's a cycle
Landed on the lawn of existence
...
to lengthen my hemlines and straighten
my morals
because I was difficult
because my parents were tired
...
HOME AT GRASMERE
ONCE to the verge of yon steep barrier came
A roving school-boy; what the adventurer's age
...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed,
The sort of lover, avaricious named;
And if in opposites we reason see,
The liberal in paradise should be.
...
The bright stars shine
Monday,27th July 2020
The stars write it again
...
Run after illusion or glamour
You will lose piece of mind and honor
Things will look miles away
The discontentment and unhappiness may always stay
...
My smiles manufactured to make you feel safe
I radiate false amity to lure you as bait
So, when you let me in, I've got a free buffet
Gulping down your pride is as good as Child's play
...
While such a festival comes
Tress fill cheerfulness
They stand and wish to run
But roots hold soil tight
...
Grasses grow and clouds roar,
Lightening gives thrilling to all,
Inside roar still grasses dream,
Reality writes love letters.
...
Oh dear super lover you rate
You are ocean of light in point
You are infinite love of souls
You rate my love soon I share.
...
This is very dark night a groom
Who has rich chemistry knowledge
To go deeper to the soil searches
The bride of brightness in wisdom.
...
Feeling excited and alive...
Off to meet my children!
After four months of separation...
Eyes bright with anticipation.
...
Where's the Blind Child, so admirably fair,
With guileless dimples, and with flaxen hair
That waves in ev'ry breeze? he's often seen
...
He said: Lo, the sky is somber, and frowned.
I said: Smile just the same! Enough frowns in the sky
He said: Youth has left me and fled; I said: Smile!
Sorrow will never bring back your vanished youth
...
Inches above the loose earth
You stand alone, stooping a bit,
Wearing a smile of modesty, not mirth
That's to your demeanor a perfect fit.
...
Love stays for ever as
Fragrance remains forever
From flowers
Or from showers
...
Love
main raw material for writing industry
infinite definitions
chances of misunderstood confusions
...
Cheerfulness is a virus that contaminates
Surrounding all in wondrous pleasant air
A sweet perfume like roses permeates
A sunny view of life that always brings in flair.
...
Ladies, well I deem, delight
In comely tire to move;
Soft, and delicate, and bright,
Are the robes they love.
...
I miss friends
Think so much from this dead end
Life has become mechanical
I want to feel natural
...
Feel good with
Sweat as much as you can
If you want
...
No favor from God
In this materialistic world
It has been repeatedly told
...
A very small space on a foot path, all
Love to travel for a while
First visitor is twilight along with birds
In melody that rhyme a bit with a resonance
...
Confidence, the determinant of health
the triggering agent
for living life king size
embedded in it the spark of action
...
A bleeding cloud
envisioned into the mirror
of a water-eye
is like a face losing its lines,
...
Child is doll to play and toy to watch,
Is there anything better to match!
The cheer of the child is extraordinary,
Is there anything better to commentary!
...
There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapes
Of this and this occasion, sisterly
In their resemblances, each effigy
Crowned with the same bright hair above the nape's
White rounded firmness, and each body alert
With such swift loveliness, that very rest
Seemed a poised movement: ... phantoms that impressed
But a faint influence and could bless or hurt
No more than dreams. And these ghost things were she;
For formless still, without identity,
Not one she seemed, not clear, but many and dim.
One face among the legions of the street,
Indifferent mystery, she was for him
Something still uncreated, incomplete.
...
Way ahead
Tuesday,18th August 2020
The life's journey in unpredictable
...
In happiness
When something unknown has invaded your mind
You shall not be able to find
...
What a beautiful way to feel?
When days pass at will
With happiness and cheerfulness
Not with a single worry line on face
...