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###mother Teresa (20) The Succession
All over the worldMother Teresa travelledTo help the poor people,And in between she fell ill.Despite her fragile healthThe society grew in..
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###mother Teresa (19) The Co-Workers
In the year nineteen eighty,The Missionaries of charity,Opened a separate entityFor priests observing spirituality.They were called Co-workersAnd..
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###mother Teresa (18) Blessed Mother Teresa
In 2003, nineteenth October,At Rome’s Saint Peter’s square,Pope John Paul II declaredMother Teresa as Blessed.She said, “If we rememberThat God loves..
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###mother Teresa (17) The Importance Of Prayers
“There is so much hatred,And misery in the world,Prayer attached with sacrificeWill bring, at home, peace.”“In the family, love begins.From there it..
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###mother Teresa (16) Compassion And Love
Mother Teresa shunned politics.Once she said, “If I’m in politics,I may stop loving people,That I can’t think of or spell.”“You work for the poor,And..
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###mother Teresa (15) God Is One
“Call him Allah or Ishwar,Or simply God forever,But He had made mankindMore to love and be loved.”“We cannot love sans prayer.So, Let us pray..
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###mother Teresa (14) You'Re My Budget
How can a dedicated Mother,Single handed, take careOf the sick, dying and poorLying in streets uncared for?Hospitals refused to admitAll cases..
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###mother Teresa (12) Awards After Awards
In 1971, Mother won Peace Prize,In 1973, Templeton Prize,In 1979, Nobel Peace Prize,For all her humane services.The highest civilian award,Bharat..
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Santa's Stocking
Dame Snow has been knitting all dayWith needles of crystal and pearlTo make a big, beautiful stockingFor Santa, her merriest son;And now in some..
©  Katharine Lee Bates
Santa Claus' Riddle
Of all the happy and holy timesThat fill the steeples with merry chimesAnd warm our hearts in the coldest climes,'Twas Christmas eve, as I live by..
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Two Centuries
Two centuries' winter storms have lashed the changing sands of Falmouth's shore,Deep-voiced, the winds, swift winged, wild, have echoed there the..
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War Profits
THE horns of the moon are tippedWith pearl. Her lover, wooedBy charms and won, Endymion,Inherits quietude.White the gleamOf the dreamOn his eyes.The..
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This Tattered Catechism
THIS tattered catechism weaves a spell,Invoking from the Long Ago a childWho deemed her fledgling soul so sin-defiledShe practised with a..
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Wild Europe
WILD Europe, red with Woden's dreadful dew,On fire with Loki's hate, more savage thanBeasts that we shame by likening to man,Was it toward this the..
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Playmates
SUMMER fervors slacken;Sumac torches dim;There's bronze upon the bracken;September has a whimFor carmine, pearl and amberTouches on her green;Busy..
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Out Of Siberia
SHAKERAGS, cripples, gaunt and dazed,Prison-broken hosts on hosts,Torture-scarred and dungeon-crazed,Down the convict road they pour,More and more..
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Lydd
For the Reunion of the Bates Family at Quincy, August 3, 1916FAR away on the sunny levelsWhere Kent lies drowsing beside the sea,Where over the..
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Our President
GOD help him! Ay, and let us help him, too,Help him with our one hundred million mindsMolded to loyalty, so that he findsThe faith of the Republic..
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To My Country
O dear my Country, beautiful and dear,Love cloth not darken sight.God looketh through Love's eyes, whose vision clearBeholds more flaws than keenest..
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Man Overboard
YOUNG, the naked stoker who wentMad with the fires and leapt to the sea,Boyhood still in the voice that sentOne shrill cry back from..
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Not Yet
NOT yet hath Nature, lovely colorist,Bestirred her from creative dream to flingSoft flame upon the woods, —nay, not to dipOne pleading maple-tipIn..
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Jerusalem
AT last, at last the CrescentFalls back before the Cross.Great spirits, incandescentWith longing and with loss,Gleam from the clouds, crusadersWho..
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My Lady Of Whims
(A medieval Spanish legend slanderously setting forth the utter unreason of woman.)ROMAQUIA sat and wept herLace mantilla full of tears.King Abit..
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The Purple Thread
'The priests distributed various coloured silken threads to weave for the veil of the sanctuary; and it fell to Mary's lot to weave purple.'—The Book..
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In A Northern Wood
FRAGRANT are the cedar-boughs stretching green and level,Feasting-halls where waxwings flit at their spicy revel,But O the pine, the questing pine..
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