Perserverance and dedication in the face of obstacles is a great thing but only when the thing you are being persistent about is also good.
Here is a poem from Edward Carpenter, who died on this day in 1929.
BEETHOVEN.
BETWIXT the actual and unseen, alone,
Companionless, deaf, in dread […]
What if you had a great voice but didn’t have anything great to say? Or maybe you had something great to say, but didn’t have a great voice. Hey, It happens …
Then there are some who have not only a great voice but something great to say.
Today is Irish poet, Paul […]
Sam Walter Foss was a New England librarian and poet. He was born on June 19, 1858 in New Hampshire, went to college in Rhode Island and served as librarian for the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts beginning in 1898. His most famous poem was The House by The Side of the Road. […]
Sarah Helen Whitman, as you may know, was engaged to marry Edgar Allan Poe in the year before he died. I’m not going to go into her biographical information. You can find that out readily enough on Wikipedia, and there is also a link on our poem page, The Portrait, to a more […]
Here’s a comment that was left on the poll page for Fueled by Marcie Hans:
One of my primary school teachers forced every single class she encountered not only to learn this poem, but to repeat it in an affected voice and use over-exaggerated mannerisms. She also declined to enter into any meaningful discussion of it. […]