Behold the human race! What wonder thing!
My tears in sadness wet, in joy they`re bright.
We have the fancy things of a queen, king,
And female voices for the ear jut right.
And when of age our faces turn to old,
What animal compares with such a look?
We have the patience to work the pearl, the gold,
And hands the most delicious meals to cook.
So then with a loud voice and surely clean
I can cry out all o`er the universe,
“Yes, listen now, this`s what I truly mean:
The human race is far from any curse.”
The ground is rich enough to give the flowers,
But mind immmense is God who makes us towers.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn
- On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня лётчика
- Cake by Roger McGough
- The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
- The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
- The Flower of Mending by Vachel Lindsay
- Aunt Helen by T. S. Eliot
- Николай Карамзин – Анакреонтические стихи А. А. Петрову
- Water by Robert Lowell
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- Belly Good by Marge Piercy
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сняла с меня судьба
- Water Music by Robert Creeley
- From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
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