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Let America Be America Again

by Langston Hughes

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

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The Light That Failed

by Rudyard Kipling

So we settled it all when the storm was done
As comfy as comfy could be;
And I was to wait in the barn, my dears,
Because I was only three.
And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot
Because he was five and a man--
And that's how it all began, my dears,
And that's how it all began!

Then we brought the lances down--then the trumpets blew--

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The Golden Journey To Samarkand

by James Elroy Flecker

I
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We Poets of the proud old lineage
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why, -

What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales
Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest,
Where nevermore the rose of sunset pales,
And winds and shadows fall towards the West:

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Address To The Devil

by Robert Burns

1 O thou! whatever title suit thee,--
2 Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie!
3 Wha in yon cavern, grim an' sootie,
4 Clos'd under hatches,
5 Spairges about the brunstane cootie
6 To scaud poor wretches!

7 Hear me, Auld Hangie, for a wee,
8 An' let poor damned bodies be;
9 I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie,

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Death Of A Believer

by Rudyard Kipling

Yet at the last, ere our spearmen had found him,
Yet at the last, ere a sword-thrust could save,
Yet at the last, with his masters around him,
He spoke of the Faith as a master to slave.
Yet at the last, though the Kafirs had maimed him,
Broken by bondage and wrecked by the reiver,
Yet at the last, tho' the darkness had claimed him,
He called on Allah, and died a Believer!

Recent Faith Poems

Chase And Success You Trace And Embrace !

by mv venkataraman

Possible surely if you are sensible,
Trouble is just a will-burst bubble,
Terrible fears start to surely tremble,
Suitable steps if we wisely double !
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Controlled mind if we hold,
Gold comes to our fold,
Mold shrewdly ideas and be bold,
Untold agony gets not enrolled !
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Let Enthusiasm Blossom

by mv venkataraman

He who gives up loses,
He who quits not succeeds,
Only a believer God blesses,
As his ideas are fertile seeds,
Success when one misses,
He must check all his deeds,

Defeat may come to beat,
Greet it by being calmly sweet,
Repeat acts, so glory you meet,

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Doubts

by Ken Ripley

Why do you doubt that the sun in the sky
Is the same as the stars at night?
Why do you doubt that the grass is green
And the heavens are sunny and bright?

Why do you doubt that children are small
And like to peel bread from the crust?
And why do you doubt the God up above
And where will you place your trust?

A Choice

by Ken Ripley

Death is a wall we cannot see
What is beyond or meant to be.
So we place our fate in speculation
Or hold the hope of revelation.

What Jesus did and claimed to show
Is truth beyond what we can know.
So we can choose to doubt his grace
Or follow him and see God’s face.

On being married

by T. Caddy

We point the boat where we want to go.
And the wind shoves us aside some days.
Or the waters churn with chum and we’re surrounded…
Or the boat springs a leak we must patch
Quick! with whatever’s on hand.
So what?
We paddle our boat together.
We point it where we want to go.