O CAPTAIN! my Captain, our fearful trip is done ( Read more... )

About the Shark, phlegmatical one ( Read more... )

Elan that lifts me above the clouds ( Read more... )

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night
That Mang the Bat sets free.
The herds are shut in byre and hut -
For loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power,
Talon and tush and claw.
O hear the call! Good Hunting, All
That keep the Jungle Law!
~Rudyard Kipling

Its a dark night no star bright ( Read more... )

The floor before my bed is bright:
Moonlight - like hoarfrost - in my room.
I lift my head and watch the moon.
I drop my head and think of home.
~Li Po

I scrub the long floorboards
in the kitchen, repeating
the motions of other women
who have lived in this house.
And when I find a long gray hair
floating in the pail,
I feel my life added to theirs.
~Jane Kenyon

There was a road ran past our house
Too lovely to explore.
I asked my mother once -- she said
That if you followed where it led
It brought you to the milk-man's door.
(That's why I have not travelled more.)
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Somewhere in everyone's head something points toward home ( Read more... )

Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations ( Read more... )