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Favorite Inspirational Poems As An Adult, #13 and #14: “Not What We Give,” “Real Riches.”

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

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NOT WHAT WE GIVE.

Not what we give, but what we share,

For the gift without the giver is bare;                   

Found on Pinterest on 2-16-16.. Marilyn Spalding.

Found on Pinterest on 2-16-16.. Marilyn Spalding.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,

Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

 

 

 

 

 

 

REAL RICHES.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could

Cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart

Of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

GEORGE MACDONALD.

 

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Found on 1-15-16. on Facebook Timeline.

Found on 1-15-16. on Facebook Timeline.

My Favorite Inspirational Poems, #8 and 9: “Two At A Fireside,” and ” Be Noble.”

31 Sunday Jan 2016

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Found on Pinterest on 1-27-16.

Found on Pinterest on 1-27-16.

TWO AT A FIRESIDE.

I built a chimney for a comrade old.

I did the service not for hope of hire,

And then I traveled on in winter’s cold,

Yet all the way I glowed before the fire.

EDWIN MARKHAM

 

 

 

BE NOBLE.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies

In other men, sleeping, but never dead,

Will rise in majesty to meet thine own;                  

Found on Pinterest on 12-8-15. Joshtin Powers.

Found on Pinterest on 12-8-15. Joshtin Powers.

Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes,

Then will pure light around thy path be shed,

And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

 

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Sharing Poems I Liked In Childhood #4: “Greatly Begin” and “Two Temples.”

26 Saturday Sep 2015

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Found on Google+ on 9-11-15. Jonathan Usher.

Found on Google+ on 9-11-15. Jonathan Usher.

Greatly Begin!

Greatly begin! though thou have time

But for a line, be that sublime–

Not failure, but low aim is crime.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Found on Google+ on 8-27-15. By Andrzej Olchawa Photography.

Found on Google+ on 8-27-15. By Andrzej Olchawa Photography.

Two Temples.

A builder builded a temple,

He wrought it with grace and skill;

Pillars and grains and arches

All fashioned to work his will.

Men said, as they saw its beauty,

“It shall never know decay.

Great is thy skill, O builder:

Thy fame shall endure for aye.”

A Mother builded a temple

With loving and infinite care,

Planning each arch with patience,

Laying each stone with prayer.

None praised her unceasing efforts,

None knew of her wondrous plan;

For the temple the Mother builded

Was unseen by the eyes of man.

Gone is the builder’s temple,

Crumbled into the dust;

Low lies each stately pillar,

Food for consuming rust.

But the temple the Mother builded

Will last as the ages roll,

For that beautiful unseen temple

Was a child’s immortal soul.

HATTIE VOSE HALL

“When I was in elementary school, my head was filled with lofty ideas. I was more interested in psychology and philosophy than I was in jumping rope.”

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