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
- Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo by Robert Burns
- Николай Гумилев – Новорожденному
- At His Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s by Robert Burns
- Наум Коржавин – Грустная самопародия
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Couplet poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты рукой мне сжала сердце
- Sergei Esenin – Sergueï Essénine – Stars
- Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore
- Федор Сологуб – Терцинами писать как будто очень трудно
- Like the gods. . . by Sappho
- Missing
- Sonnet III: With how sad steps by Sir Philip Sidney
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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).
