Tag Archives: Inspirational poems for Recitation

A Loving Teacher Poetry by Pat McClain Things our grown-up mind defies Appear as giants in children‘s eyes. A gentle touch upon her head A simple word when kindly said. Complete attention when she calls. Her knowing you have given all. Correcting in a loving way. Instilling trust in what you say. Making her believe unique The tiny flaw upon her …

Muharram marks the beginning of the Islamic New Year, but it is a period of mourning where Muslim Shia community commemorates the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain, the son of Hazrat Ali and grandson of Prophet Muhammad. Similar to last year, Dussehra and Ashura (10th day of Muharram) will be celebrated consecutively this year too. Both events in the history …

Here is an old classic poem by Rashtra Kavi Mathilisharan Gupt, praising the great and ancient motherland India. विजय भेरी: देश प्रेम कविता जीवन रण में फिर बजे विजय की भेरी। भारत फिर भी हो सफल साधना तेरी। आत्मा का अक्षय भाव जगाया तू ने, इस भाँति मृत्यु भय मार भगाया तू ने। है पुनर्जन्म का पता लगाया तू ने, …

This great poem was written by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, a great poet-philosopher and active political leader. Iqbal was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of Kashmiri brahmins but his grandfather Sahaj Ram Sapru, had to embrace Islam (Reference). In 1904, Iqbal, then a young lecturer at the Government College, Lahore, was invited by his student …

4to40.com has become very popular amongst school children and their parents who find on this site poems to recite in class, or for home-work. It is therefore important that poems well entrenched in public memory should be available on this site. This famous poem of desh prem should be of interest to many readers. We often hear it on Doordarshan on …

Soul of India resides in her villages. Agyeya said so in his poem “Hamara Desh” and in this famous poem Sumitranandan Pant Ji makes the point that the gentle, compassionate, enduring and caring Bharatmata lives in villages. भारतमाता ग्रामवासिनी: सुमित्रानंदन पंत भारत माता ग्रामवासिनी। खेतों में फैला है श्यामल, धूल भरा मैला सा आँचल, गंगा यमुना में आँसू जल, मिट्टी …

Jayadrath Vadh is a famous Epic written by the Rashtra Kavi Maithili Sharan Gupt, and tells the story in Mahabharata of the killing of Jayadrath the Kaurava by Arjuna, the Pandava Warrior. In the excerpt given below, Abhimanyu, the 16 year old son of Arjuna is bent upon tackling a specially tricky Kaurav army formation (Chakraviyuh) that he alone can …

Bharat-Bharati is a classic Maha-Kavya (epic) written by Rashtra Kavi Methili Sharan Gupt. It traces the rise and fall of Indian civilization and gives prescription for regaining the heights that the civilization had once achieved in the past. The book has three chapters on the past, present and future of India. There are 703 verses in all. I have presented …

World is run by people who live a life full of actions. Geeta teaches Karma-yoga to us. The same thought prevails in this poem by Dinkar. It is one of those poems that fill us with enthusiasm and a will to achieve some thing in life. Only Ramdhari Singh Dinkar can exhort like this. A lovely poem indeed. दिनकर जी …

War has an important role in Nation building. A nation that has not experienced war becomes weaker. War ensures peace. This is the perspective on war provided by the well-known poet Kanhaiyalal Sethia. युद्ध नहीं है नाश मात्र ही युद्ध स्वयं निर्माता है, लड़ा न जिस ने युद्ध राष्ट्र वह कच्चा ही रह जाता है, नहीं तिलक के योग्य शीश …