Ziklag F8.16 - Rich Dust

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

A twisted heart cannot tell the difference. cf Pr. 11.22

You are either with us, or against us. cf Mt 10.35

On Poetry

“There shall be in that rich dust, a richer dust concealed.”

The lost art is ever worth rediscovery.

For those without time to click, here’s the list worth digging into:

1. Here are a few lines from each poem on the list:

   1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
      "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

   2. "If—" by Rudyard Kipling:
      "If you can keep your head when all about you
      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

   3. "Sailing to Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats:
      "An aged man is but a paltry thing,
      A tattered coat upon a stick..."

      

   4. Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare:
      "When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
      I all alone beweep my outcast state..."

   5. "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley:
      "I am the master of my fate,
      I am the captain of my soul."

   6. "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost:
      "Good fences make good neighbors."

   7. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" by Walt Whitman:
      "Come, my tan-faced children,
      Follow well in order, get your weapons ready..."

   8. "Horatius" by Thomas Babington Macaulay:
      "And how can man die better
      Than facing fearful odds..."

   9. "On the Stork Tower" by Wang Zhihuan:
      "The white sun sets beyond the mountains,
      The Yellow River flows into the sea..."

   10. "The Builders" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
       "All are architects of Fate,
       Working in these walls of Time..."

   11. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes:
       "My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

   12. "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke:
       "If I should die, think only this of me:
       That there’s some corner of a foreign field
       That is forever England."

   13. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot:
       "In the room the women come and go
       Talking of Michelangelo."

   14. "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley:
       "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

       

   15. "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne:
       "As virtuous men pass mildly away,
       And whisper to their souls to go..."

   16. Poem from The Iron Heel by Jack London:
       "How can a man, with thrilling and burning, and exaltation, recite the following..."

   17. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
       "Into the valley of Death
       Rode the six hundred."

   18. "Opportunity" by John James Ingalls:
       "Opportunity, it is famously said, knocks only once."

   19. "Character of the Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth:
       "Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
       That every man in arms should wish to be?"

   20. "Ode 1.11" by Horace:
       "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." (Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow).