TheStrengthofaWomanbyNewFoundationWriters

Thestrengthofawomaniscarryingtheburdenoffamilywithout
expectationthatsomeonewillfeelherpainorcryhertears.
Thestrengthofawomanisthefirstonetowakeupand
thelasttogotobed.
Thestrengthofawomanistoprettyanddollupallthemasks
shehastowearinordertosurvive.
Thestrengthofawomaniscryingherselftosleepatnightthen
embracingyouinthemorningwithahugandasmile.
Thestrengthofawomanismymother,
awomanwhosaysshesokaywhenyoucantellshesinpain,
awomanwhosmileswhenthegoinggetstoughand
awomanwhofindslaughteraftercrying.
Thestrengthofawomanistoraiseachildshedoesnotknow.
Thestrengthofawomanhearsachildscryand
knowsexactlywhattheywant.
Thestrengthofawomaniscourageandindependence.
Thestrengthofawomanisdoingwhateverittakestosurvive.
Thestrengthofawomanisthebackbonethatholdseveryonetogether
...behindeverystrongmanthereisastrongwoman.
Thestrengthofawomanisherability
toholdhertonguewhenhersignificantotheriswrong
tostopherchildrenfrommisbehavingwithalookinhereye
topickherselfupanddustherselfoff
tomakeherfamilysmileinthemidstofastorm
tomultitaskandadapttodifferentsituations
toswallowherpride.
Thestrengthofawomanisherunconditionallove
forherchildrenandothers.
Thestrengthofawomanistobeapeacemaker.
Thestrengthofawomanistobeabletofeelthingsnooneelsecan.
Thestrengthofawomanistobeable.
ThestrengthofawomanishavingfaithinGod,
forsheknowsGodistheonlyonethathasherback.
Helpingotherswhentheyareinneed,

alwaystheretotakethelead.
Sufferinghardtimesnotforlong,
becauseherwillisverystrong.
Makesyouhappywithlotsofjokes,
mostimportantlytheyarejokesofhope.
Hercolorsarebeautifulscarletred
lotsofblessingsuponherhead.
Thestrengthofawomanwellalwaysknow,
becauseherstrengthwillalwaysshow.

A Nation's Strength - Poem by Ralph Waldo

Emerson
What makes a nation's pillars high
And its foundations strong?
What makes it mighty to defy
The foes that round it throng?
It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand
Go down in battle shock;
Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,
Not on abiding rock.
Is it the sword? Ask the red dust
Of empires passed away;
The blood has turned their stones to rust,
Their glory to decay.
And is it pride? Ah, that bright crown
Has seemed to nations sweet;

But God has struck its luster down

In ashes at his feet.
Not gold but only men can make
A people great and strong;
Men who for truth and honor's sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly...
They build a nation's pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.
The Strength of a Woman by Naomi Johnson
The strength of a woman is her kindhearted ways
that she forever displays.
It's her loving confident smile that takes you to the
highest place with the glimpse of determination
shone upon her face.
The strength of a woman is the amazing ability to
withstand pain bring a life in this world even if the
man does not want to entertain.
It's the ability to raise her child on her own when

the man left her all alone to support them until they
are grown.
The strength of a woman is the intrinsic style
to protect like a child without being hostile.
It's the humble heart she shows
that warms a soul when your spirits feeling low.
The strength of a woman knows how to restrain her
tongue when insults are being flung.
It's the lovely expression she conveys with the eyes
and respect for herself she does not denies.

The strength of a woman is the devoted traits

she has standing by her man side when problems
arise.
It's her inspirational words she gives her mate
making him feel oh so great.
The strength of a woman is her gentle touch
you love so much.

It's her loyal love to one guy she continues to create

without being irate.
The strength of a woman is her intellectual mind,
oh so chic with the words she speaks.
It's the versatile
qualities she uses without spirit of guile.
The strength of a woman is learning how to love
when she has been hurt over again without
committing a sin.
The strength of a woman is not her traditional love
she has to live on, it's her unconditional spiritual love
that has not yet gone.
The Strength of Fate by Euripides
In heaven-high musings and many,
Far-seeking and deep debate,
Of strong things find I not any
That is as the strength of Fate.
Help nor healing is told
In soothsayings uttered of old,
In the Thracian rines, the verses
Engraven of Orpheus' pen;

No balm of virtue to save

Apollo aforetime gave,
Who stayeth with tender mercies
The plagues of the children of men.
She hath not her habitation
In temples that hands have wrought;
Him that bringeth oblation,
Behold, she heedeth him naught.
Be thou not wroth with us more,
O mistress, than heretofore;
For what God willeth soever,
That thou bringest to be;
Thou breakest in sunder the brand
Far forged in the Iron Land;
Thine heart is cruel, and never
Camp pity anigh unto thee.
Thee, too, O King, hath she taken
And bound in her tenfold chain;
Yet faint not, neither complain:
The dead thou wilt not awaken
For all thy weeping again.
They perish, whom gods begot;
The night releaseth them not.
Beloved was she that died

And dear shall ever abide,

For this was the queen among women, Admetus,
That lay by thy side.
Not as the multitude lowly
Asleep in their sepulchres,
Not as their grave be hers,
But like as the gods held holy,
The worship of wayfarers.
Yea, all that travel the way
Far off shall see it and say,
Lo, erst for her lord she died,
Today she sitteth enskied;
Hail, lady, be gracious to usward;
That alway her honor abide.
Renewal of Strength by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The prison-house in which I live
Is falling to decay,
But God renews my spirit's strength,
Within these walls of clay.
For me a dimness slowly creeps
Around earth's fairest light,
But heaven grows clearer to my view,
And fairer to my sight.

It may be earth's sweet harmonies

Are duller to my ear,
But music from my Father's house
Begins to float more near.
Then let the pillars of my home
Crumble and fall away;
Lo, God's dear love within my soul
Renews it day by day.
Women of Courage by Kathy L. Goings
Women of courage, women of strength ,
Women of faith and devotion.
Mothers of children with spirits so strong
Who may have unbridled imaginations. REFRAIN: They
are women, women of courage
They are Christians, towers of strength.
They are women who put Jesus first in life
Show ring His love on all those they greet. Women with
losses, women who love,
Whose strength and whose courage comes from above,
Whether they're mothers; or loving Aunties,
It's plain to see Jesus love shines through them.
REFRAIN: They are women, women of courage
They are Christians, towers of strength.

They are women who put Jesus first in life

Showring His love on all those they greet. Women I work
with, women I know,
Whether at church, or other places I go.
Women whose spirits are battered by pain,
But Christ lifts them up, and they go on again. REFRAIN:
They are women, women of courage
They are Christians, towers of strength.
They are women who put Jesus first in life
Showring His love on all those they greet.
Empowered by Phantom Anonymous
The strength to rise from the pain,
to continue at all cost,
The strength to prolong all the shame,
Knowing that you've lost,
The strength to smile, when all you feel is anger,
to substitute bad days, for the best ones you can
remember,
The strength to say 'I'm lost' when your pride has blocked
your sight,
to say 'please love me', though I've never done it right,
The strength to say you love them, knowing there may be
no reply,
to stay by their sides at times, when all they do is cry,
the strength to try again after many times of failing,

to finally open up after many years of waiting,

The strength to fall in love, though sacrificing your heart,
to keep a loved one close while knowing you've grown
apart,
The strength to say ' I love you' when all else has gone
wrong,
to keep on waiting for you..... regardless of how long,
Solidsrity Song by Bertolt Brecht
Peoples of the world, together
Join to serve the common cause!
So it feeds us all for ever
See to it that it's now yours.
Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!
Black or white or brown or yellow
Leave your old disputes behind.
Once start talking with your fellow
Men, you'll soon be of one mind.
Forward, without forgetting

Where our strength can be seen now to be!

When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!
If we want to make this certain
We'll need you and your support.
It's yourselves you'll be deserting
if you rat your own sort.
Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!
All the gang of those who rule us
Hope our quarrels never stop
Helping them to split and fool us
So they can remain on top.
Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!

Workers of the world, uniting

Thats the way to lose your chains.
Mighty regiments now are fighting
That no tyrrany remains!
Forward, without forgetting
Till the concrete question is hurled
When starving or when eating:
Whose tomorrow is tomorrow?
And whose world is the world?
.KonaBody