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
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Два клада
- Robert Burns: Remorse: Fragment
- The Garret poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Everything by Philip Levine
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- Владимир Британишский – Отечественные записки 1840-х годов
- Что такое хорошо и что такое плохо – Владимир Маяковский (Стих): Читать стихотворение на Poetry Monster
- Mad Pirate Marmaduke by Ross D Tyler
- Adieu…, adieu…. by Vladimir Marku
- Георгий Иванов – Аспазия, всегда Аспазия
- Вера Павлова – Объятье
- Владимир Британишский – Еретик
- A Channel Passage by Rupert Brooke
- Men by Maya Angelou
- at_the_zoo.html
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).