Author Facts
Became deaf and blind at nineteen months old.
Helen Keller
A Thing of Beauty
John Keats
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
Faith, God's Goodness
Christmas Time on the Frontier
Sacrifice and commitment
The Gift of the Magi
"Daisy's homely mouth dropped at the corners. Her toothache did not seem to matter to anyone."
A Start in Life by Ruth Suckow
Three Days to See
Helen Kellet
Christmas Time on the Frontier
Unknown
Expectation vs. reality
A Start in Life
The permanence of what is truly beautiful.
A Thing of Beauty
"Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!"
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
The Spacious Firmament on High
Joseph Addison
A Start in Life
Ruth Suckow
Beauty can be found in simple things.
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
We should not take any aspect of our lives for granted; appreciate what God has given.
Three Days to See
"Forever singing, as they sine, The Hand that made us is Divine."
The Spacious Firmament on High by Joseph Addison
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth
Not taking God's creation for granted.
The Open Sky
God's variety in nature; there is beauty in imperfection.
Pied Beauty
"Glory be to God for dappled things-"
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sweet is the Breath of Morn
John Milton
The Open Sky
John Ruskin
The perfect beauty of the earth (specifically the Garden of Eden before the Fall)
The magnificence of the sky proclaims the wonder and power of our Creator.
The Spacious Firmament on High
"Hard times have come again and again, but we have trusted in Him, dreading nothing so much as a doubt of His protecting care."
Christmas on the Frontier by Unknown