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
- “What ails you, Ocean, that nor near nor far” poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- Addiction by Walid Saba
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- Robert Burns: Despondency: An Ode:
- Paradise Lost: Book 06 poem – John Milton poems
- Death of the Legend by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
- The Nympholept
- A Bucolic Betwixt Two; Lacon and Thyrsis by Robert Herrick
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Finale. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems
- Come down, O Maid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Where My Sight Goes by Yvor Winters
- Love thy Country and Do a useful Act – Gurazada by Vijay Narayana Chilaka
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).
