Personified - Volume 2

A collection of classic rhyming poetry built around the concept of personification; giving life, form, voice & breath to virtues & philosophical concepts. Pieces include - the Fertile Ground of the Unknown & Frustration as a Wasteland; Traveling thru the Valley of Fear; Love's Leap & the Landfall of Faith; Hope as Strong Liquor; the Circle of Worry; How Time is Always Fresh; Being Prisoner to Pain; the Future as a Friend; Belligerent Courage & Carving Will; Keeping Reins Tight on Hope; Uncertainty like Wolves; the Shield of Faith; Pain as the Greatest Teacher & more.
Includes 32 individual poems, accompanied by allegorical art work from Odilon Redon William Blake, Georgette Agutte, William Adams, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Maerten van Heemskerck & Leonardo da Vinci. Includes quotes from:C. S. LewisRumiJim MorrisonKhalil GibranCharles BukowskiJoseph CampbellJ. K. RowlingMargaret AtwoodDeepak ChopraOscar MunozRichard Paul EvansPsalm 23:4Jack CanfieldGeorge R. R. MartinMiguel de CervantesHunter S.
ThompsonWilliam ShakespeareRosa Parksa Japanese proverbRobert FrostSoren KierkegaardChinese proverbPema ChödrönRuth GendlerRichard EberhartEnoch Arnold BennettErnest HemingwayJames EllroyEphesians 6:16George MacDonaldJames Russell LowellAnton ChekhovPlatoMahatma GandhiMarcus TulliusMartin LutherGeorge W. BushJ. R. R. TolkienMadeleine L'EngleElbert HubbardMichelangeloRobert HillyerKenji MiyazawaMatshona DhliwayoGeorge Bernard ShawMarco Aurelio AntoninoJohn LennonFernando PessoaVictor HugoJohn GreenJackson PearceJohn SterlingBarbara Lazear AscherJulius CaesarJim RohnWm.
Paul YoungEmily DickinsonGeorge OrwellRaymond ReddingtonMarie von Ebner-EschenbachMary Tyler MooreMaxime LagacéAntoine de Saint-ExuperyCharlie ChaplinDon IngallWoody HayesRabindranath TagoreArnold SchwarzeneggerA. W. TozerLao TzuPercy Bysshe ShelleyHenry Ward BeecherJohn KeatsCarl JungRobert Gary LeeDavid RichoFrida KahloLionel TrillingMarilyn MansonCoretta Scott KingJames Baldwin