You have travelled close beside the human race
From where it first evolved and led it on;
E’er moving with increasing bolder pace
From Darkness up to where your beacon shone.
Tho’ ignorance and superstition oft
Have blocked your way, you ne’er vouchsafed to veer
From off your course, but held your torch aloft-
The ages, struggling in the dark, to cheer.
March on. Oh Progress up to the greater heights
The more your beacon lights are trimmed, the more
They’ll show the nakedness of wrongs and rights
Which law should crush and what it should restore.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чувство
- A Song of a Girl from Loyang by Wang Wei
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 71-го
- Николай Заболоцкий – Я не ищу гармонии в природе
- Our Father’s Works by William Barnes
- Untitled IV by Yunus Emre
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton
- Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: The Whistle -A Ballad:
- Олег Бундур – Август
- Inscription For A Hermitage In The Author’s Garden by William Cowper
- Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
- The Glutton by Sylvia Plath
- Валерий Брюсов – Есть поразительная белость
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
