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
- Furious Wounds by Satish Verma
- The Deep-Sea Cables by Rudyard Kipling
- Turns by Tony Harrison
- The Captive by Rudyard Kipling
- Last News About The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мог бы быть я при тёще, при тесте
- The India Wharf by Sara Teasdale
- The Daughter Goes To Camp by Sharon Olds
- Владимир Бенедиктов – С могучей страстию в мучительной борьбе
- A Song Of Autumn
- Celia Beeding, To the Surgeon by Thomas Carew
- Robert Burns: Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish:
- Icicles round a Tree in Dumfriesshire by Ruth Padel
- In A Vacant House by Philip Levine
- Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry by Stephen Dunn
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).
