Lacking inspiration this morning? Want to bask in the lofty, literary glow of some fine poetry? Look no further. Here are four cheery poems to start your day off right.
How wonderful is Death,
Death, and his brother Sleep!
One,
pale as yonder waning moon
With lips of lurid blue;
The
other, rosy as the morn
When throned on ocean’s wave
It
blushes o’er the world;
Yet both so passing wonderful!
– Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Queen Mab.
Although Death walks beside us on Life’s road,
A dim
bystander at the body’s start
And a last judgment on man’s
futile works,
Other is the riddle of its ambiguous face:
Death
is a stair, a door, a stumbling stride
The soul must take to
cross from birth to birth,
A grey defeat pregnant with victory,
– Sri Aurobindo, Savitri
I know I will love death.
Why?
Because death too
Is
God’s creation
And because death reminds me
Of the
existence of her sister:
Infinity’s Life immortal.
– Sri Chinmoy
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant
never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet
have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should
fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it
will come.”
― William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar
Have a wonderful day!
