What poem would you find remarkable to put it on frame?

Answer 1

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann:

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always, there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievments as well as your plans.

Keep intersted in your career; however humble;
it is a real possesion in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings,
many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the Universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be;
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your Soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Answer 2

Your question made me remember the poem I printed out and framed to put over my son's bed when he was born. He is now 23, so I guess it worked:

God keep my jewel this day fron danger
From tinker and pooka and black-hearted stranger
From harm of the water and hurt of the fire
From the horns of the cows going home to the byre
From teasing the as* when he's tied to the manger
From stones that would bruise and from thorns of the briar
From evil red berries that waken desire
From hunting the gander and vexing the goat
From depths o' seawater by Danny's old boat
From cut and from tumble, from sickness and weeping
May God have my jewel this day in his keeping.

Anonymous

He doesn't know that I know this, but it still hangs over his bed in his apartment.

My own favorite is "Words for a Totem Animal" by W S Merwin, which ends wonderfully:

Send me out into another life
lord because this one is growing faint
I do not think it goes all the way

Answer 3

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Answer 4

of direction you could. I actual have a mag conceal from ninety seven years in the past framed, a mag web site from two decades in the past framed, a doily my aunt crocheted almost 60 years in the past, some cutwork she did interior an analogous era........something you like might properly be framed, and it truly does not even might desire to be flat. some you could physique your self, some truly choose a expert, yet while that's significant to you and you elect to show it, that's the only way. My mom had a watercolor framed and made right into a tray. those issues do not look dumb. i does not even project retyping it on fairly paper, because of the fact the unique is what's significant to you.

Answer 5

A Psalm of Life by Longfellow
If by Rudyard Kipling
Waiting by John Borroughs

Answer 6

Anything by Rilke...

He is frame-able, although long.

Goethe too... He is very quotable!

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

I have a greeting card wth a Dickens quote that I framed...

" It is no slight thing when they who are so fresh from God love us." Dickens...

Answer 7

Our Greatest Fear

(a quote from Marianne Williamson


Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant,gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some, it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Answer 8

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed
he was walking along the beach with the LORD.


Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of
footprints in the sand: one belonging
to him, and the other to the LORD.


When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.


He noticed that many times along the path of
his life there was only one set of footprints.


He also noticed that it happened at the very
lowest and saddest times in his life.


This really bothered him and he
questioned the LORD about it:


"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow
you, you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most
troublesome times in my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when
I needed you most you would leave me."

The LORD replied:


"My son, my precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."


I actually have this one in a frame and hanging on the wall.It is beautiful and has alot of meaning to me.

Answer 9

Heredity by Thomas Hardy

Answer 10

I like Longfellow's The Day is Done and The Psalm of Life.

This one is long but good.

http://www.poetry.com/greatestpoems/poem.asp?title=Burning+Drift%2DWood&author=John+Greenleaf+Whittier