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| Searching... Subject: STOICISM Matches Found: 15 AFTER EATING, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My meal finished, one short nap Last Line: But the man who is neither happy nor sad %accepts the life given him, long or short Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Stoicism AN ANSWER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You call me cold: you wonder why Last Line: The touch of ice and fire is one. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Blindness; Love; Nature; Stoicism; Visually Handicapped HYMN ON STOICISM, by CLEANTHES Poem Source First Line: O god most glorious, called by many a name %nature's great king Last Line: E'en to the gods than justly to adore %the universal law fo r evermore Variant Title(s): Hymn To Zeus; The Hymn Of Cleanthe Subject(s): Religion; Stoicism I READ MY SENTENCE STEADILY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And there the matter ends Subject(s): Judgements; Death; Law; Stoicism NOTHING FOR IT, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your glassy wind breaks on a shoutless shore and stirs around the rose Last Line: Nothing for it just row Subject(s): Despair; Stoicism OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIFE OF EPICTETUS, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: Poor epictetus, born the slave of fate Last Line: Of every spark of good we think or do. Subject(s): Epicetus (60-140); Fate; Heaven; Life; Stoicism; Destiny; Paradise READINGS BY WAYS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The epicurean (and stoic) philosophers Last Line: Histories like unread creeks Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Epicureanism; Stoicism STOIC, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I, a slave, chained to an oar of poem Last Line: Of the mind's impudence: you can see it so well %on the faces of the self-reliant dead Subject(s): Stoicism STOIC, by JAMES HATCH Poem Source First Line: The sight of bread's split crust on the oven sill Last Line: And say those simple prayers that children know' Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Parents; Stoicism STOICISM, by LOUIS MENARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave strength breeds freedom, for each load we bear Last Line: In envy of the gods that know not death. Subject(s): Reason; Stoicism; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE NEED FOR STOICISM IN THE STOA OF ATTALUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pitcher that went to the well too often Last Line: And the urinals (by crane) have all gone to pot Subject(s): Irony; Stoicism THE OLD STOIC, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Riches I hold in light esteem Last Line: With courage to endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Immortality; Stoicism; Dead, The; Liberty THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O most just vizier, send away Last Line: Because a king shall bury him.' Subject(s): Stoicism WHEN LIFE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is cut close, blades and bones Subject(s): Stoicism WHEN ROSELEAVES FALL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When roseleaves fall in evenings cold Last Line: When roseleaves fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Stoicism; Summer |
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