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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTIFUL THINGS, by ELLEN P. ALLERTON First Line: Beautiful faces are those that wear Last Line: Over worn-out hands -- oh! Beautiful sleep! | |||
BEAUTIFUL FACES are those that wear -- It matters little if dark or fair -- Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearthfires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like songs of birds, Yet whose utterance prudence girds. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is honest and brave and true, Moment by moment the long day through. Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly ministries to and fro, Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so. Beautiful shoulders are those that bear Ceaseless burdens of homely care With patient grace and daily prayer. Beautiful lives are those that bless Silent rivers of happiness, Whose hidden fountains but few may guess. Beautiful twilight at set of sun, Beautiful goal with race well won, Beautiful rest with work well done. Beautiful graves where grasses creep, Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep Over worn-out hands -- oh! beautiful sleep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HIDE AND SEEK by SARA TEASDALE LAMENT FOR CULLODEN by ROBERT BURNS CLARE'S DRAGOONS by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS HYMN ON SOLITUDE by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH by WALT WHITMAN TWELVE SONNETS: 11. FIRST, BATTLE; THEN, WOMAN by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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