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SAFETY ON THE SHORE

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore;
Ships have been drown'd, where late they danced before.




Quotes of the Day

Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
• Job 34:4


Poems of the Day
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    To A Friend Estranged From Me
    Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun That will not rise again. Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold and senseless as the sea,