SMS – Christian Christmas – Quotes
George W. Truett: Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries. Matthew 2:1-2: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the […]
To Autumn by John Keats
To Autumn John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump […]
To Autumn by William Blake
To Autumn William Blake O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and […]
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
The Oven Bird Robert Frost There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and […]
On Reason and Passion (Kahlil Gibran)
On Reason and Passion Kahlil Gibran Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how […]
On Friendship (Kahlil Gibran)
On Friendship (Kahlil Gibran) Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the […]
On Children (Kahlil Gibran)
On Children (Kahlil Gibran) Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their […]
On Marriage (kahlil Gibran)
On Marriage (Kahlil Gibran) You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance […]
Love Poems
Absence (Pablo Neruda ) A Conceit (Maya Angelou) A Dream Within A Dream (Edgar Allan Poe) A gentle word like a spark of light (David G.Kelly) Alone (Edgar Allan Poe) Alone (Maya Angelou) An Entrapment (Anthony Kolos ) Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe) And because love battles Acceptance (Langston Hughes) Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria (Langston […]
On Love (Kahlil Gibran)
On Love When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind […]









