This is a fabulous new blog feature here at Eli to the nth! Thanks to Genna from Reading, Writing, and the World of Words, who created this awesome feature and gave me the permission to host it here, as well as, use her cute graphic! Poetry is one of my passions, but I have yet to share it here. So this feature gives me the perfect opportunity to do so!
This week I'm concentrating on the future. I will be graduating from university in 18 days, and I now have to go be an adult (which blows by the way). Since April is National Poetry Month, I figured it would be a good time to gather some inspiration from some great poets.
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| Today We Make the Poet's Words Our Own | ||
| by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | ||
To-day we make the poet's words our own, And utter them in plaintive undertone; Nor to the living only be they said, But to the other living called the dead, Whose dear, paternal images appear Not wrapped in gloom, but robed in sunshine here; Whose simple lives, complete and without flaw, Were part and parcel of great Nature's law; Who said not to their Lord, as if afraid, "Here is thy talent in a napkin laid," But labored in their sphere, as men who live In the delight that work alone can give. Peace be to them; eternal peace and rest, And the fulfillment of the great behest: "Ye have been faithful over a few things, Over ten cities shall ye reign as kings." | ||
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