LIVING IN THE PAST DAYS LOVE ~BY SHAHED KHANDAKER
The winter will befall upon our youth,
We will lose the spring of our vigour
A sheer dullness shall have its firm growth,
November 2024
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN ~BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
STILL I RISE ~BY MAYA ANGELOU
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR ~BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Where the mind is without fear
And the head is held high,
THE BANGLE SELLERS ~BY SAROJINI NAIDU
Bangle sellers are we who bear
Our shining loads to the temple fair…
Who will buy these delicate, bright
Rainbow-tinted circles of light?
OZYMANDIAS ~BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
YOU FOUND ME ~BY RUMI
You found me once again,
you thief of hearts. In drunken ecstasy,
you searched the bazaar and found me.
JABBERWOCKY ~BY LEWIS CARROLL
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! ~BY WALT WHITMAN
Our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
IF ~BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
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