Numbers Poems

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
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Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
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Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your
    head.
Arithmetic tell you how many you lose or win if you know how
    many you had before you lost or won.
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ATTEND my lays, ye ever honour'd nine,
Assist my labours, and my strains refine;
In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,
For bright Aurora now demands my song.
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BARDS of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too,
Doubled-lived in regions new?
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Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes--do you recall? And we
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Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too,
Double lived in regions new?
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What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
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Deprived of root, and branch and rind,
Yet flowers I bear of every kind:
And such is my prolific power,
They bloom in less than half an hour;
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HAIL holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born,
Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense:
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Write it. Write. In ordinary ink
on ordinary paper: they were given no food,
they all died of hunger. "All. How many?
It's a big meadow. How much grass
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Sojourn, efficacy entrapped within the boundaries
Choreographing the dances of life, like calligraphies

The strokes, beckoned a second look
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I have changed the numbers on my watch,
And now perhaps something else will change.
Now perhaps
At precisely 2a.m.
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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
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Then said a teacher, 'Speak to us of Teaching.'

And he said:
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The word goes round Repins,
the murmur goes round Lorenzinis,
at Tattersalls, men look up from sheets of numbers,
the Stock Exchange scribblers forget the chalk in their hands
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Tell me not, in doctored numbers,
Life is but a name for work!
For the labour that encumbers
Me I wish that I could shirk.
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I do not question whether I am happy or unhappy.
Yet there is one thing that I keep gladly in mind --
that in the great addition (their addition that I abhor)
that has so many numbers, I am not one
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My curse upon your venom'd stang,
That shoots my tortur'd gums alang;
And thro' my lugs gies mony a twang,
Wi' gnawing vengeance;
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Number, Number
Who discovered the number?
What does a number stand for?
Number is the very basic for evolving science
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Here's a little bit of news that might not be of interest to you but I'll tell you anyway…
Bryan, our eldest son, turns 45 today.

Here's another little bit of news to share as we travel down life's path…
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He loves numbers; he loves to count,
To add, subtract, to multiply and
Divide to borrow, and to arrange,
Equations are his life. To him
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Never Encumbered.

Arithmomania is a rare condition
A type of obsession with numbers
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The world began with ONE number!
Yea, ONE GOD created it for man.
Mankind flourished with TWO numbers!
Yea, man and woman were created.
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12 and 21,
13 and 31,
14 and 41,
15 and 51,
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Invented after trial and error for living,

Can be counted till infinite and hence many applications,
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A lot of work signifying nothing
Adding up numbers
Adrenaline flowing
The numbers now mean nothing
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Life is a game of numbers
In reality, life is a gamble
Not a game. Serious blunders
Kill, no need to show an example
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