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
- Other by Robert Creeley
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
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- On a Sea Fight, Which the Author was in, Betwixt the English and Dutch by William Wycherley
- Алишер Навои – У пери — точка вместо уст
- In a Sombre Mood by Satish Verma
- Юрий Левитанский – Как зарок от суесловья, как залог
- Untitled XXIII by Yunus Emre
- Лебедев-Кумач – Священная война: стих “Вставай, страна огромная”, текст песни на Poetry Monster
- Михаил Лермонтов – Блистая, пробегают облака
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Portrait poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Корнилов – Дождь обычный
- Zen-moment by Sunil Sharma
- Grief An’ Gladness by William Barnes
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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