Sample Poems

The book includes many poems, including pieces by W.H. Auden, Lord Alfred Tennyson, and Kahil Gibran.

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I love this little story...

After Gracie Allen died, George Burns found a note in her dresser drawer. It read...

George,
    Don't put a period where God
        intended a comma.
            Love,
                Gracie

ON FRIENDSHIP
from "The Prophet" by Kahil Gibran

Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside, for you come to him with your hunger
and you seek him for peace.

When your friend parts from you, grieve not; for...

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Crossing The Bar
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
      And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
      When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
      Too fall for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
      Turns again home...     

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The Story of Two Ships

In a harbor, two ships sailed--one setting forth on a voyage, the other coming home to port. Everyone cheered the ship going out, but the ship sailing in was scarcely noticed. To this, a wise man said, "Do not rejoice over a ship setting out to sea, for you cannot know what storms it may encounter. Rather, rejoice over the ship that has safely reached port and brings its passengers home in peace."

And this is the way of the world: When a child is born...     

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DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP
by Mary E. Frye
(reprinted with permission from Bereavement Publishing, Inc.,

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints on snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle autumn rain...       

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There are 30 poems in the book.
They vary in tone, length, and literary sophistication.

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