The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss

A beautiful and heartfelt classic poem about love of man and humility by a lifetime librarian, Sam Walter Foss:
“The House by the Side of the Road“ -
From “101 Famous Poems,” compiled by Roy J. Cook and originally published in 1916.
Watch the entire series “101 Famous Poems” at Vimeo.com/HulaInk.
One reason I love this classic American collection of poems is that it’s old-fashioned-ness: all our modern self-fascination and trendy irony is gone and in it’s place is good old inspiration and love of duty and purpose. I think a lot of us are so caught up in the concern of our time that we lose sight of the values our world were built on - it’s healthy for all of us to recall them to mind once in a while.
Thus the 101 Famous Poem Project - producing every poem in the collection as a stand-alone videobook on Vimeo.
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Poets in this series include: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Tennyson, Percy Byssche Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wadsworth, John Milton and more.
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The music used in this video is “Newborn” and was provided for without copyright restriction by Apple as part of the software package Final Cut Pro X.

[@AvednigoJingco-hh9ld]

This poem has moved me to also live by the side of the road and be a friend to man...💕

[@poetryandpurpose]

me too! trying at least. good luck!

[@chrishouse4677]

This is my favorite poem!! I wish everyone had this perspective. The world would be a much better place! Thank you for sharing this!!

[@poetryandpurpose]

Me too - if the world would listen to this, a lot of our problems would be solved - but on the other hand it's so hard! thanks for commenting!