Patience (Caroline Fry Poems)
Patience, when heathen darkness veil'd the world,Was that high spirit of unbending pride,That dar'd to err, but was asham'd to ...
Patience, when heathen darkness veil'd the world,Was that high spirit of unbending pride,That dar'd to err, but was asham'd to ...
There was a slave, who, born to days unbless'd,Drew from his parent blood the hard decreeOf ceaseless and unwilling servitude.His ...
I KNEW a stream,'twas yonder, where, Now bleak and bare,There was a covert once of ...
NAY, Sister, nay,but say not so,For o'er my memory even nowThere comes, as if it were a dream,A train indeed ...
IS'T joy to me that Jesus lives? That he,Whom mortals buried, burst the riven tomb,And came again to prove that ...
And is it so? Look at creation round!See you how fair, how beautiful it is,How form'd to bless, how exquisite ...
WHO heeds thee, poor flower? No fragrance is thine, No sunbeam has dress'd thee with hues of delight,Thou hast ...
Resign'd! —I am resign'd, if Heaven so will,To tread awhile the subterranean pathThat leads me to my Father and my ...
You ask me why I bend the kneeIn attitude of prayer,If I believe myself ordain'dEternal glory's heir?List, and I'll tell ...
TWINS of one morning, on a single stem, Two Roses side by side were growing,On each alike there hung ...
SEAL'D is it? Where then did you learn the sighThat speaks a knowledge which your lips deny?If its rich treasures ...
ON thy beds of clover playing, Pretty Insect, why so gay?Why so blithely dress'd this morning? 'Tis to ...
THOU pretty Bird, it is not here That thou art used to sing;Thou art not wont, on perch like ...
That sun which is yonder so brightly declining,That you look at with careless delight,Full many a lesson of wisdom might ...
Where, amid tumultuous waters,Sickening with a hope repress'd,Far from all his soul desires,Loves the sailor's eye to rest?Is it not ...
WHERE hast thou been, thou pretty Flower, That ne'er before I found thee?For whom has nature deck'd thee thus, ...
'TIS surely strange, thou lovely flower,That thou should'st choose so dark an hour To put thy beauties forth,Why not ...
Faith, like a simple, unsuspecting child,Serenely resting on its mother's arm,Reposing every care upon her God,Sleeps on his bosom, and ...
On thy bed of clover playing,Pretty insect, why so gay?Why so blithely dress'd this morning; 'Tis to thee no Sabbath-day.Giddy ...
STILL as I watch'd the evening close,In azure blue the pale moon rose;No sullen mist obscur'd her ray,Nor e'en a ...
Still as I watch'd the evening close,In azure blue the pale moon rose;No sullen mist obscur'd her ray,Nor e'en a ...
ACROSS a trackless sea, I saw the vessel glide,The pale moon's tranquil beam Was playing on the tide:But ...
Sad and slow was the wanderer's tread,As o'er the lengthen'd way she sped;And often she cast a wishful eyeOn the ...
Said Anna to Jane, as they loiter'd one day,In the year's early spring, b the garden-hedge side,—"Those bright, clustering flowers ...
A MARINER at eventide Pushed his light boat from the land,I saw him pass the boiling surge And ...
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