Substance writing of a poem examples | Class 10 HSLC

Some worked-out Poetry Passages

l. Like my little garden

May I grow sweet and fair;

With kindly words and action

For everyone to spare,

May the good seed nourish wellness

In my little heart,

And all the vain and wicked thoughts

Like evil weeds depart.

Substance : We should be gentle and polite in our behaviour. We should use hind words and cherish good thoughts, We should do nothing so as to offend others.

2. Little words of kindness

How they cheer the heart!

What a world of gladness

Will a smile impart!

Little acts of kindness--

Nothing do they cost!

Yet when they are wanting,

Life's best charm is lost,

Little deeds Of kindness,

Little words of love,

Make our Earth an Eden

Substance : It is by doing little acts of kindness and using gentle words that we can cheer the lives of our fellowmen and give them courage and comfort. These cost us nothing, but they constitute the essential charm of life, making the earth blissful like heaven itself.

3. Riches I hold in light esteem,

And Love I laugh to scorn;

And lust of fame Was but a dream

That vanished with the m orn;

And. if I prays the only prayer

That moves my lips for me

Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear.

And give me liberty!

Yes, as my days near their goal,

Tis all that I implore;

In life and death a chainless soul,

With courage to endure.

Substance : This poem sets down an attitude of unwavering courage and freedom of mind. A stoic care nothing for love, wealth and fame. He prays to almighty almighty father for free, unfettered soul only.

4. I Jove all beauteous things,

I seek and adore them;

God hath no better praise.

And man in his hasty days

Is honoured for them.

I too will something make

And joy in the making;

Altho' tomorrow it seem

Like the empty words of a dream

Remembered on waking.

Substance : The poet loves all beautiful things which are the highest creations of God. Man also deserves praise for making beautiful things. So he create beauty in the form of a poem. It may be as short-lived asa dream; yet he will find joy in creating a thing of beauty.

5. Work while you work.

Play while you play

That is the way

To be happy and gay.

All that you do,

Do with your nught;

Things done by halves

Are never done right.

One thing at a time

And that done well,

Is a very good rule,

As many can tell.

Moments are useless

When trifled away,

So work while you work

And play while you play.

Substance : Doing the right thing at the right time is the way to be happy. It is a good rule to do one thing at a time and do it in the best possible way, without wasting time, every moment should be properly used.

6. Say not the struggle not availeth,

The labour and the wounds are vain,

The enemy faints not, nor faileth,

And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears could also be liars;

It may be, in you smoke conceal'd.

Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers.

And but for you poses the field

For while the tired vainly breaking

Seem here no painful to gain

For back through creeks and inlets making,

Come silent, fooding in the main.

And not by eastern windows only,

When daylight comes, comes in the light;

In from the sun climbs slow how slowly!

But westward look, the land is bright!