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###mother Teresa (11) In The Midst Of War
“The death, I’ve seen,Besides horrors of famine,But I had never been,Earlier, to a war scene.”“What do they really feel,When they mercilessly..
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###mother Teresa (10) The Orphanage Children
“It’s the mercy of JesusThat brings me successIn every uphill task,In His name, I undertake.”“I’m a pencil in God’s hand.I obey His every command,And..
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###mother Teresa (09) Shanti Nagar For Lepers
Shanti Nagar, a City of Peace,To train the sick and healed lepers,In different skills was created,Which was well appreciated.The Indian Government..
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###mother Teresa (08) Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart)
In the year 1952, there came,For the dying, a special home,“Nirmal Hriday” by name,In Kolkata, for the first time.A woman, half eaten by rats and..
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###mother Teresa (06) Saint Of The Gutters
When a good seed is sown well,It starts cutting the soil,Pushing down deep its roots,And sprouting up its shoots.The seed of love from her heartGrew..
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###mother Teresa (05) Call From The Heaven
During her health recuperation,Calls from the Merciful Heaven,Besides several divine visionsCame to her, one by one.Jesus appeared and spoke to..
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###mother Teresa (04) Day Of The Great Killing
The disastrous 1946 World WarCrippled the economy world o’er.It caused unprecedented destructions,With huge loss of lives and properties.The British..
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###mother Teresa (03) Agnes As Sister Teresa
In the year nineteen-twenty-eight,On the 25th, September, the dateThat gave Agnes a good startFor her career, in the right spirit.She left her home..
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###mother Teresa (02) A Passion For Public Service
Agnes’s Mother, Drana was one,Who was the first ever to runAnd do any public serviceAt the hour of their needs.A widow with six children,And a..
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###mother Teresa (01) A Great Saint Is Born
As a gift of the Heaven,A great Saint is born.Many had come and gone,As God’s messenger chosen.Thus the unseen Lord is seenThru’ the kindness of..
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The living flame
THEY pass before me, these Eyes full of light,Eyes made magnetic by some angel wise;The holy brothers pass before my sight,And cast their diamond..
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Destruction
At my side the Demon writhes forever,Swimming around me like impalpable air;As I breathe, he burns my lungs like feverAnd fills me with an eternal..
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TO A BROWN BEGGAR-MAID
WHITE maiden with the russet hair,Whose garments, through their holes, declareThat poverty is part of you,And beauty too.To me, a sorry bard and..
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Gloomy Madrigal
What's it to me that you are sage?Be beautiful! and be sad! TearsAdd a charm to the countenanceAs a stream does to a landscape;Storms make the..
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The Soul Of Wine
One eve in the bottle sang the soul of wine:'Man, unto thee, dear disinherited,I sing a song of love and light divine-Prisoned in glass beneath my..
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The Eyes Of Beauty
YOU are a sky of autumn, pale and rose;But all the sea of sadness in my bloodSurges, and ebbing, leaves my lips morose,Salt with the memory of the..
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The sky
Where'er he be, on water or on land,Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,Shadowy beggar or Crœsus..
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Sonnet Of Autumn
HEY say to me, thy clear and crystal eyes:'Why dost thou love me so, strange lover mine?'Be sweet, be still! My heart and soul despiseAll save that..
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The Sadness Of The Moon
THE Moon more indolently dreams to-nightThan a fair woman on her couch at rest,Caressing, with a hand distraught and light,Before she sleeps, the..
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The Solitary’s Wine
A flirtatious woman’s singular gazeas she slithers towards you, like the white raysthe vibrant moon throws on the trembling seawhere she wishes to..
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Letter To Sainte-Beuve
On the old oak benches, more shiny and polishedthan links of a chain that were, each day, burnishedrubbed by our human flesh, we, still..
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Semper Eadem (Ever The Same)
«D'où vous vient, disiez-vous, cette tristesse étrange,Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu?»— Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa..
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Réversibilité (Reversability)
Ange plein de gaieté, connaissez-vous l'angoisse,La honte, les remords, les sanglots, les ennuis,Et les vagues terreurs de ces affreuses nuitsQui..
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The Warner
Every man worth the namehas a yellow snake in his soul,seated as on a throne, sayingif he cries: ‘I want to!’: ‘No!’Lock eyes with the fixed gazeof..
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La Cloche Fêlée (The Cracked Bell)
II est amer et doux, pendant les nuits d'hiver,D'écouter, près du feu qui palpite et qui fume,Les souvenirs lointains lentement s'éleverAu bruit des..
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