POEMS

[LyndaLu]

Here are some unusual and interesting poems I can across this weekend from
The Best Loved Poems of the American People. Selected by Hazel Felleman ( 1936 ).

A CREED

There is a destiny that makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back into our own.

I care not what his temples or his creeds,
One thing holds firm and fast -
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of a man is cast.

Edwin Markham


THE HUMAN TOUCH

'Tis THE HUMAN TOUCH in this world that counts,
The touch of your hand and mine,
Which means far more to the fainting heart
Than shelter and bread and wine;
For shelter is gone when the night is o'er,
And bread lasts only a day,
But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice
Sing on in the soul away.

Spencer Michael Free


HOW TO BE HAPPY

Are YOU ALMOST DISGUSTED with life, little man?
I'll tell you a wonderful trick
That will bring you contentment, if anything can,
Do something for somebody, quick !

Are you awfully tired with play, little girl?
Wearied, discouraged, and sick - -
I'll tell you the loveliest game in the world,
Do something for somebody, quick !

Though it rains like the rain of the flood, little man,
And the clouds are forbidding and thick,
You can make the sun shine in your soul, little man,
Do something for somebody, quick !

Though the stars are like brass overhead, little girl,
And the walks like a well-heated brick,
And our earthly affairs in a terrible whirl,
Do something for somebody, quick !

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