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The Cold Within ICSE Class 10 English Poem ICSE Class 10 English Poetry  ICSE Class 10 Poems In English   ICSE Class 10 Poetry In English Six humans trapped by happenstance In bleak and bitter cold. Each one possessed a stick of wood Or so the story’s told . Their dying fire in need of logs The first man held his back For of the faces round the fire He noticed one was black . The next man looking ‘cross the way Saw one not of his church And couldn’t bring himself to give The fire his stick of birch . The third one sat in tattered clothes. He gave his coat a hitch . Why should his log be put to use To warm the idle rich ? The rich man just sat back and thought Of the wealth he had in store And how to keep what he had earned From the lazy shiftless poor. The black man’s face bespoke revenge As the fire passed from his sight. For all he saw in his stick of wood Was a chance to spite the white. The last man of this forlorn group Did nought except for gain . Giving only to ...

 Dover Beach ISC  Class 12  English Poems ISC Boards  Class 12  English  Poem  The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air ! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Ægean , and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea . The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only he...

The Heart of the Tree Poems On Nature In English ICSE Class 10 Poems ICSE Boards Class 10 English Poem  What does he plant who plants a tree?    He plants a friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free;    The shaft of beauty , towering high;    He plants a home to heaven anigh;       For song and mother-croon of bird       In hushed and happy twilight heard— The treble of heaven's harmony — These things he plants who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree?    He plants cool shade and tender rain, And seed and bud of days to be,    And years that fade and flush again; He plants the glory of the plain ; He plants the forest's heritage ; The harvest of a coming age; The joy that unborn eyes shall see— These things he plants who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree?    He plants, in sap and leaf and wood, In love of home and loyalty    And f...