Here’s another poem from Edwin Markham, Oregon Poet Laureate from 1923 through 1931.
Preparedness
by Edwin Markham
For all your days prepare,And meet them ever alike:
When you are the anvil, bear—
When you are the hammer, strike.
James Kerti
Faith
This poem was published in 1916 in American Indian Magazine by Arthur Caswell Parker, who was of Seneca descent.
Faith
by Arthur Caswell Parker
There is a faith that weakly dies
When overcast by clouds of doubt,
That like a blazing wisp of straw
A vagrant breeze will flicker out.
Be mine the faith whose living flame
Shall pierce the clouds and banish night,
Whose glow the hurricanes increase
To match the gleams of heaven’s night.
Sing a While Longer
This beautiful poem is from Edwin Markham, a native Oregonian and the state Poet Laureate from 1923 through 1931.
Sing a While Longer
by Edwin Markham
Has the bright sun set,Has the gale grown stronger?
Still we’ll not grieve yet:
We will sing a while longer!
Has our youth been met
By Time the wronger?
Let us not grieve yet,
Let us sing a while longer!
Is the world beset,
Do the sorrows throng her?
Let us not grieve yet:
Let us sing a while longer!