Tablets – Page 5

The word unto the

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good poetry could not

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Hades is mighty

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things. Aeschylus

News reports can overwhelm

News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising – not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits … Read more

(When asked about the

(When asked about the free distribution of Akash tablet his party had promised) ‘Frankly, I am not the person who came up with the Aakash tablet. You need to ask the gentleman who came up with it. Rahul Gandhi

Good night; ensured release,

Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth’s foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman’s grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
A. E. Housman