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8 Line Poems

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  1. Kind Hearts by Anonymous
  2. Silence by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
  3. One Step and Then Another by Anonymous
  4. This Is God's Day by Annette Wynne
  5. The World's Greatest Need by C. Austin Miles
  6. I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson
  7. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon
  8. A Lesson by Ruby Archer
  9. He Prayeth Best Who Loveth Best by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  10. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
  11. There is no frigate like a book by Emily Dickinson
  12. A Valentine by Francis William Bourdillon
  13. The Sky Loves the Tall Hills by Annette Wynne

  1. Kind Hearts

    Kind hearts are the gardens,
    Kind thoughts are the roots,
    Kind words are the blossoms,
    Kind deeds are the fruits;

    – Anonymous
    Kind Hearts
    by Anonymous | Total Words: 37, Lines: 8

    Kind hearts are the gardens,
    Kind thoughts are the roots,
    Kind words are the blossoms,
    Kind deeds are the fruits;
    Love is the sweet sunshine
    That warms into life,
    For only in darkness
    Grow hatred and strife.

  2. Silence

    by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse | 37 words, 8 lines

    O many and vain, Belovéd,
    The words I spoke to you
    In those first wondering hours
    When love was new!

    Now we have wandered together
    Into a mystic land,
    Now we are silent, Belovéd,
    Because we understand.

  3. One Step and Then Another

    by Anonymous | Total Words: 42, Lines: 8

    One step and then another,
    And the longest walk is ended;
    One stitch and then another,
    And the largest rent is mended.

    One brick upon another,
    And the highest wall is made;
    One flake upon another,
    And the deepest snow is laid.

  4. Who Has Seen the Wind?

    by Christina Rossetti | Total Words: 42, Lines: 8,

    Who has seen the wind?
    Neither I nor you;
    But when the leaves hang trembling,
    The wind is passing through.

    Who has seen the wind?
    Neither you nor I;
    But when the trees bow down their heads,
    The wind is passing by.

  5. This Is God's Day

    by Annette Wynne | Total Words: 63, Lines: 8

    This is God's day that he lent to me
    That I may use for good or ill;
    Fair and fresh as a day can be
    This is God's day that he lent to me.
    He took a wave from eternity's sea—
    Fashioned a day all blemish-free;
    This is God's day that he lent to me.
    That I may use for good or ill.

  6. The Eagle

    by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Total Words: 39, Lines: 8

    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.

  7. The World's Greatest Need

    by C. Austin Miles | Total Words: 73, Lines: 8

    A little more kindness and a little less greed;
    A little more giving and a little less need;
    A little more smile and a little less frown;
    A little less kicking a man when he's down;
    A little more 'we' and a little less 'I';
    A little more laughs and a little less cry;
    A little more flowers on the pathway of life;
    And fewer on graves at the end of the strife.

  8. I'm nobody! Who are you?

    Fishing
    Fishing
    by Winslow Homer
    by Emily Dickinson | Total Words: 45, Lines: 8

    I'm nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there 's a pair of us — don't tell!
    They 'd banish us, you know.

    How dreary to be somebody!
    How public, like a frog
    To tell your name the livelong day
    To an admiring bog!

  9. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    by Francis William Bourdillon | Total Words: 46, Lines: 8

    The night has a thousand eyes,
    And the day but one;
    Yet the light of the bright world dies
    With the dying sun.

    The mind has a thousand eyes,
    And the heart but one:
    Yet the light of a whole life dies
    When love is done.

  10. A Lesson

    Build as doth the lowly coral,—
    Give yourselves. That shall endure.

    – Ruby Archer
    A Lesson
    by Ruby Archer | Total Words: 43, Lines: 8

    Would ye build that generations
    Yet to be may call you great?
    Would ye have your lives' creations
    O'er the ages tower elate?

    Hearken then a world-old moral,—
    Abnegation, meek and pure.
    Build as doth the lowly coral,—
    Give yourselves. That shall endure.

  11. He Prayeth Best Who Loveth Best

    He Prayeth Best
    He Prayeth Best
    by Margaret Tarrant
    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This text is an excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. | Total Words: 46, Lines: 8

    Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
    To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
    He prayeth well who loveth well
    Both man and bird and beast.

    He prayeth best who loveth best
    All things, both great and small:
    For the dear God who loveth us,
    He made and loveth all.

  12. Nothing Gold Can Stay

    by Robert Frost | Total Words: 40, Lines: 8

    Nature's first green is gold,
    Her hardest hue to hold,

    Her early leaf's a flower;
    But only so an hour.

    Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    So Eden sank to grief,

    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay.

  13. There is no Frigate like a Book

    by Emily Dickinson | 41 words, 8 lines

    There is no frigate like a book
    To take us lands away,
    Nor any coursers like a page
    Of prancing poetry.
    This traverse may the poorest take
    Without oppress of toll;
    How frugal is the chariot
    That bears a human soul!

  14. A Valentine

    by Francis William Bourdillon

    What is my wish for thee, sweet Valentine?
    A song of Spring, while Winter yet is here,
    Heralding Summer in the silent year,
    Be thine!

    And for myself canst thou my wish divine?
    To think my greeting may be in thy sight
    Welcome as Summer's heralds, — this delight
    Be mine!

  15. The Sky Loves the Tall Hills

    by Annette Wynne

    The sky loves the tall hills,
    Wraps them in day,
    Starts a million cooling rills
    Dancing down their way;
    Shelters well each bright head
    Bad days through,
    Every night puts them to bed
    With coverlet of blue.

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