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
- On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Расскажи, дорогой
- A Parænesis To Prince Henry by William Alexander
- Владислав Ходасевич – Нет, не шотландской королевой
- Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence by William Shakespeare
- Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- To a Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Обводной канал
- A Rebus, By I. B. by Phillis Wheatley
- Sonnet CXXV by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
- Mother by Shahida Latif
- A Sleepless Night poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Хрущёву
- Bicycle Ride by Pat Mullan
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).
