Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Psalm Of Life

 A Psalm Of Life - Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
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Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Poem by Emily Jane Brontë: Hope

 Poem by Emily Jane Brontë: Hope

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Hope was but a timid friend;

She sat without the grated den,

Watching how my fate would tend,

Even as selfish-hearted men.

She was cruel in her fear;

Through the bars, one dreary day,

Poem by John McCrae: The Hope Of My Heart

Poem by John McCrae: The Hope Of My Heart

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I left, to earth, a little maiden fair,

With locks of gold, and eyes that shamed the light;

I prayed that God might have her in His care

And sight.

Earth's love was false; her voice, a siren's song;

(Sweet mother-earth was but a lying name)

Poem by Emily Dickinson: Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

 Poem by Emily Dickinson: Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

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'Hope' is the thing with feathers....

That perches in the soul...

And sings the tune without the words....

And never stops.....at all....

And sweetest....in the Gale....is heard.....

My Fathers, The Baltic - Poem by Philip Levine

My Fathers, The Baltic - Poem by Philip Levine

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Along the strand stones,

busted shells, wood scraps,

bottle tops, dimpled

and stainless beer cans.

Something began here

a century ago,

a nameless disaster,

perhaps a voyage

to the lost continent

where I was born.

Now the cold winds

of March dimple

Love Poem by Derek Walcott: Love After Love

 Poem by Derek Walcott: Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

Love Poem by Udiah - Lost Love (Love Love Love)

 Love Poem by Udiah - Lost Love (Love Love Love)

How do you write a poem

about Love?

It cannot be caught

and is beyond words’

power of depiction.

It has no place to be,

all places are filled

with Love.

Without Love would

anything have any savour?

Poem by Pablo Neruda: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

Poem by Pablo Neruda: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You

This is Love Poem

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you

Poem by William Shakespeare - A Madrigal

Crabbed Age and Youth
Cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance,
Age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn,
Age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave,
Age like winter bare:
Youth is full of sports,
Age's breath is short,

Short Stories: My two Moms

 Short Stories: My two Moms

       My birth mom was Mildred Mae Ollendorf until she married my Dad. Then she became Mildred Mae Nelson. She was born in Chicago Illinois near the end of W.W.I. Her mother was Welch and Danish, her father German. She had one sister. When she was young she studied nursing until she met my Dad. After they were married he  said he wanted a housewife and nothing more. So Mom agreed to be a housewife and never tried to work outside the house.

   After the birth of the first daughter they moved to Michigan and into a trailer on his uncle's farm. The trailer was cold and the baby got pneumonia and almost died. She was in a hospital for a while. It scared my Dad so much he said they would have a large family, and

Short Stories: The Magic Cave

 Short Stories: The Magic Cave
 
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One day Jaymi and her two friends April and Amanda were walking just outside of town. April happened to look up and saw the cave. “I never saw that there before.” said April. Jaymi and Amanda agreed they'd never seen it either. April said “Let's go up and take a look at it” so they climbed up to the Hill to see the cave. They were standing at the entrance to the cave, the cave went back about 50 feet and in back they could see a light. There was no one around so they decided to go in and take a look at it. When they got to the back of the cave, Jamie put her hand on the stone that was lit up. She said “This stone is very smooth and it is cool too.” Then April came up and put her hand on the stone and she agreed, she said “Come here Amanda you have to feel this.”

 As soon as Amanda put her hand on the stone there was an explosion and a bright light. The three girls were knocked off their feet. When the girls got to

News as Buhari renames Federal University, Oye Ekiti, after Adebayo

Current news revealed that the Federal Government has renamed the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, after the late military governor of the old Western Region, General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.).

It is reported that the Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari announced this on Saturday at the funeral service held at All Saints Anglican Church, Iyin Ekiti. He was represented by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.


Osinbajo, who delivered the president’s oration at the funeral service, described Adebayo as an officer and a gentleman indeed, saying his military trajectory was in

Poem by William Shakespeare - A Fairy Song

Read the Poem by William Shakespeare - A Fairy Song

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;

Poem by William Shakespeare - A Lover's Complaint

FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.

Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcass of beauty spent and done:
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.

Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laundering the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;

Latest Poem: All The World's A Stage - Poem by William Shakespeare

 Latest Poem: All The World's A Stage - Poem by William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

LAUTECH Teaching Hospital workers block Ogbomoso-Ilorin Road in protest

The fresh gist as hundreds of commuters, passengers and other road users were on Friday stranded when workers of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso blocked the ever busy Ogbomoso-Ilorin Express Road.

According to report gathered the placard-carrying workers who sang various solidarity songs also wanted the government to pay the outstanding eleven months salaries comprising six months balance of last year and five months for the year 2017.

Some of the inscriptions on the placards read: “Enough is

Latest news as NYSC advises prospective corps members on vaccination against meningitis

Fresh news report as the National Youth Service Corps has advised intending corps members mobilised for service to be vaccinated against meningitis before reporting to the orientation programme which starts next Tuesday.


It is gathered that the Coordinator of the NYSC in Osun State, Mr. Emmanuel Attah, said this in an interview with our correspondent in Osogbo on Saturday

He said this ahead of the commencement of orientation course on May 23.

He said this became necessary because of the outbreak of

JAMB Update: Over 10,000 candidates caught cheating in Anambra -

Current news reaching us as the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says more than 10,000 candidates caught for examination malpractices in the on-going UTME in Anambra have been handed over to appropriate authority.

Mrs Lynda Nwachukwu, the Coordinator of the board in Anambra, disclosed this to newsmen in Awka on Saturday. NAN reports that the all computer-based testing (CBT) mode 2017 UTME, which started on May 13 in 642 centres nationwide, ended on May 20. Nwachukwu said that the examination, which took place in 28 centres in the

Latest Poem: On Aging - Poem by Maya Angelou

 Latest Poem: On Aging - Poem by Maya Angelou

When you see me sitting quietly,
Like a sack left on the shelf,
Don’t think I need your chattering.
I’m listening to myself.
Hold! Stop! Don’t pity me!
Hold! Stop your sympathy!
Understanding if you got it,
Otherwise I’ll do without it!

Read Poem: On The Pulse Of Morning - Poem by Maya Angelou

 Read Poem: On The Pulse Of Morning - Poem by Maya Angelou

A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Mark the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no hiding place down here.
You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness,
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spelling words
Armed for slaughter.
The rock cries out today, you may stand on me,
But do not hide your face.

Latest Poem: Our Grandmothers - Poem by Maya Angelou

Latest Poem: Our Grandmothers - Poem by Maya Angelou

She lay, skin down in the moist dirt,
the canebrake rustling
with the whispers of leaves, and
loud longing of hounds and
the ransack of hunters crackling the near
branches.

She muttered, lifting her head a nod toward
freedom,
I shall not, I shall not be moved.


She gathered her babies,
their tears slick as oil on black faces,
their young eyes canvassing mornings of madness.
Momma, is Master going to sell you
from us tomorrow?


Yes.
Unless you keep walking more
and talking less.

Latest Poem: Phenomenal Woman - Poem by Maya Angelou

 Latest Poem: Phenomenal Woman - Poem by Maya Angelou...

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.

African Analysis: Symbolism In Piano And Drums By Gabriel Okara

African Analysis: Symbolism In Piano And Drums By Gabriel Okara...

WAEC MAY/JUNE 2017: Discuss the use of symbolism in Okara's Piano and Drum.

Lets get deeper to it, based on Oxford dictionary, symbolism is to represent a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of

The Proud King By William Morris Is A Narrative Poem - The Prove

The Proud King By William Morris Is A Narrative Poem - The Prove

Base on research it clear that narrative poetry is such that tells tale with the use of dramatic elements. Paradise Lost by John Milton, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
The Proud King by William Morris also falls under the category of narrative poetry; and we shall support this claim with just three points below:

(1) It has Lengthiness:- One of the common characteristics of

2017 UTME Candidates With Technical Issues - JAMB to Reschedule Exam

Information gathered rehe Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has disclosed that candidates who experienced technical issues while sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination would be rescheduled to resit the examination.

He said candidates to resit the exams include those that were logged out by the systems and could not answer the