Quote Quote from “The Paradoxical Commandments” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/58051 People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Kent M. Keith
Quote Quote from “A Nation's Strength ” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/42968 Not gold but only men can make A people great and strong; Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long. - William Ralph Emerson
Quote Quote from “Mother To Son” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/41919 Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters Langston Hughes
Quote Quote from “I Love You” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/81031 But give me the love that so freely gives And laughs at the whole world’s blame, With your body so young and warm in my arms, It sets my poor heart aflame. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Quote Quote from “I Love You” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/81031 I love your lips when they’re wet with wine And red with a wild desire I love your eyes when the lovelight lies Lit with a passionate fire. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Quote Quote from “Christmas Fancies, Poems Of Power” When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, And etched on vacant places Are half-forgotten faces Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Quote Quote from “Letters To Various Persons (1865)” I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Henry David Thoreau
Quote Quote from “How Do I Love Thee” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/40719 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quote Quote from “Thanksgiving” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/42003 But blessings are like friends, I hold, Who love and labor near us. We ought to raise our notes of praise, While living hearts can hear us. Ella Wheeler Wilcox