6 Line Poems

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1. Speak the Truth

   by Anonymous | Total Words: 31, Lines: 6

   Speak the truth!
   Speak it boldly, never fear;
   Speak it so that all may hear;
   In the end it shall appear
   Truth is best in age and youth.
   Speak the truth.
   

2. The Days of the Month

   by Anonymous | Total Words: 26, Lines: 6

   

   Thirty days hath September,
   April, June, and November;
   February has twenty-eight alone.
   All the rest have thirty-one,
   Excepting leap-year—that's the time
   When February's days are twenty-nine.

3. "Beautiful Faces"

   by Anonymous | Total Words: 37, Lines: 6

   Beautiful faces are they that wear
   The light of a pleasant spirit there;
   Beautiful hands are they that do
   Deeds that are noble good and true;
   Beautiful feet are they that go
   Swiftly to lighten another's woe.
   

4. Afterglow

   I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
   

   – Anonymous
   Afterglow

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   by Anonymous | Total Words: 68, Lines: 6

   I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one.
   I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
   I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,
   Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.
   I'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun;
   Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
   

5. Love is like a rose

   by Christina Georgina Rossetti | Total Words: 56, Lines: 6

   Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth,
   Love is like a rose the joy of all the earth;
   Faith is like a lily lifted high and white,
   Love is like a lovely rose the world’s delight;
   Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,
   But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.
   

   
   

   So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

   – 1 Corinthians 13:13
   ESV

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6. Four Things

   by Henry van Dyke | Total Words: 38, Lines: 6

   Four things a man must learn to do
   If he would make his record true:
   To think without confusion clearly;
   To love his fellow-men sincerely;
   To act from honest motives purely;
   To trust in God and Heaven securely.
   

7. If I can stop one heart from breaking

   by Emily Dickinson | Total Words: 41, Lines: 6

   If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
   If I can ease one life the aching,
   Or cool one pain,
   Or help one fainting robin
   Unto his nest again,
   I shall not live in vain.

8. The Eagle

   by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Total Words: 39, Lines: 6

   He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
   Close to the sun in lonely lands,
   Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
   

   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
   He watches from his mountain walls,
   And like a thunderbolt he falls.
   

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