Virtues & Poems

Definition:
From Latin virtus; valor, merit, moral perfection
noun
behaviour showing high moral standard

Poems

There are three lessons I would write,
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men.

Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put off the shadow from thy brow:
No night but hath its morn.

Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven-
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth-
Know this: God rules the host of heaven,
The inhabitants of earth.

Have Love. Not love alone for one,
But man, as man thy brother call;
And scatter, like a circling sun,
Thy charities on all

-Friedrich von Schilller

Summarizes values that are too fast fading in our modern societies (and indeed, even within ourselves).