Salt Cross Top 20 Poems and Passages

You may find the poems with a star on this website, and due to copyright reasons, those without a star on the Internet. Enjoy!

 

  Desiderata, spoken by Les Crane, text by Max Ehrmann

 

*Look to this Day for it is Life by Kalidasa

 

  Footprints in the Sand by Mary Stevenson

 

*Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting by William Wordsworth

 

  Our Greatest Fear, from A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson

 

*Children by Kahlil Gibran

 

  Why God Made Little Boys, Author unknown

 

  Why God Made Little Girls, Author unknown

 

*Dry Those Tears, my Daughter by Marsilio Ficino

 

  God’s Lent Child by Edgar Guest

 

  Ocean, from the TV series Nonni and Manni, lyrics by Maureen Thomas

 

  This Is Where I Belong, sung by Bryan Adams

 

   Over the Rainbow, sung by Judy Garland, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg

 

* Do not stand at my grave and weep, of unknown Native Am. origin or by Mary Frye

 

* Amazing Grace by J. Newton

 

  I have a dream by Martin Luther King

 

  Roots and Wings, If I had two wishes, I know what they would be, quote by Denis Waitley

 

  Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy

 

  Some Say Love, It is a River, sung by Bette Midler, lyrics by LeAnn Rimes

 

  12 Pieces of Advice on how to Live one’s Life by Robert Louis Stevenson