Tread Softly Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 1 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

In the courts of truth tread softly	A
Though your tread be firm and bold	B
Your steps may awaken echoes	C
Resounding through years untold	B
The trend of the age is onward	D
And you should not lag behind	E
If men's minds are bound with fetters	F
Perchance you may some unbind	E
	-
Our creed say you needs revising	G
In line with the growth of light	E
Be sure you have made real progress	H
Before you assume the right	E
By stroke of pen to unsettle	I
The faith of the long ago	J
For many who err in judgment	E
Stand fast to the truth they know	J
	-
You bring from the mine rare jewels	K
That you think the world should see	A
But perhaps their estimation	L
With your own may not agree	A
They may lack discrimination	L
And their worth may not discern	M
So polish them at your leisure	N
And give the world time to learn	M
	-
Before you dig up the old tree	A
That sheltered in ages past	E
The earth's noblest men and women	L
From the fury of the blast	E
See that your sapling is rooted	E
And no borer at its base	O
And its boughs both strong and spreading	G
To cover an erring race	O
	-
Bear down on the lever gently	A
Or the rock may be o'erturned	E
Or perchance your lever shattered	E
And little experience learned	E
Take time to adjust your fulcrum	P
Then thrust home your iron bar	Q
Bear down and the rock is lifted	E
Is lifted without a jar	Q
	-
Your views are perhaps exotic	R
Young shoots from a tropic brain	S
They need to be better rooted	E
To endure the wind and rain	S
You may well admire the markings	T
On each graceful stem and leaf	U
But if taken from the hot house	V
They will surely come to grief	U
	-
Before they have wholly perished	E
They may please admiring eyes	W
The old be thrown on the dunghill	A
To receive your floral prize	W
They adorn the porch and window	E
And brighten the wayside bed	E
But we waken some summer morning	G
To find our new treasures dead	E
	-
'Tis better to make haste slowly	A
Than to antedate your day	E
The farmer waits for the sunshine	X
To transmute the grass to hay	E
When the fields are ripe for harvest	E
Fear neither the heat or rain	S
But thrust in your sharpened sickle	A
And gather the golden grain	S

Joseph Horatio Chant

Tread Softly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about Tread Softly poem by Joseph Horatio Chant

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets