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
- Belts by Rudyard Kipling
- A Poet I knew by Martin Zakovski
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- Ярослав Смеляков – Три витязя
- A Slice Of School by Vaishnavi Prakash
- In The Depths Of Solitude by Tupac Shakur
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Mr. James Gracie:
- Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Мальчики, девочки, литстудийцы
- Владимир Британишский – Горы, горы – горизонты
- Валерий Брюсов – Это – не надежда и не вера
- On the Circuit by W. H. Auden
- Cruel Kindness by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Москва-Одесса
- Dedication For A Plot Of Ground by William Carlos Williams
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).
