Fidelity (Jared Barhite Poems)
When the infant world in its swaddling band Of mist and cloud and storm, Assumed its forms of sea and land, And the ...
Jared Barhite Poems on Power (26 Poems)
Our Profession (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an art in our profession, Which cannot be wholly learned From all books in our possession, Though their leaves be deftly turned Till ...
Needs And Powers (Jared Barhite Poems)
I know of no profession 'Mong profane or divine, Excelling in its mission The power embraced in mine. It reaches earth and heaven Through heart ...
The Desirable Undefined (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have often thought there's a power Unknown to science or art, That opens and closes the portals That lead to the human ...
My Choice (Jared Barhite Poems)
I would rather dwell a hermit In some silent peaceful wood, Where no voice of human being Ever breaks the solitude; Where babbling brook, ...
The Ogre (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an ogre abroad, boys, There's an ogre abroad, A three-handed monster That makes his abode In hamlet and city, In country and town, And revels ...
The Five Senses (Jared Barhite Poems)
THE EYE. Some eyes are trained to scan large field Till instantaneous glance may yield A knowledge full and plenty; While others keep a ...
The Difference (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have scanned the roll of teachers, Have noted the Aarons and Hurs Who have stayed education's Moses, And removed the cumbrous bars That ...
Communion With Nature (Jared Barhite Poems)
'Tis sweet to hold communion With Nature true and wild, And feel the thrill of gladness She breathes upon her child, When close upon ...
Love (Jared Barhite Poems)
Love is a sort of cannibal And lives upon its kind, It dares all dangers, fears no foes And to the world is ...
Important Moments (Jared Barhite Poems)
There are times when the fate of nations May hang on a moment's call; When spheres in their mute rotations May swing on ...
Good Habits (Jared Barhite Poems)
A silent force marks out the course Of every man and woman, No matter what may be the lot Of creatures that are ...
Their Life Is What They Make It (Jared Barhite Poems)
Let melancholy mortals grieve And tell their tale of sorrow, Their gloomy spirits to relieve, But all returns to-morrow; For all the while they ...
Twilight Hour (Jared Barhite Poems)
I love to spend the twilight hour When stars their radiance o'er me cast, With that benign mysterious power Which calls up mem'ries ...
Memory (Jared Barhite Poems)
Earthly scenes are worth preserving, Bitter though they sometimes be; Who would wish to sink in Lethe All the fruits of Memory? None could ...
Indulgence (Jared Barhite Poems)
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
Fragments (Jared Barhite Poems)
This world was made of fragments Each separate from the other, Yet in such close relation As to indicate a brother. Each atom of ...
Tim (Jared Barhite Poems)
We remember well when a schoolboy, When pliant in mind and limb, We had for a boon companion, A bright youth whose name ...
Lies (Jared Barhite Poems)
If aught on earth my soul can fire, 'Tis the deception of a liar Who with soft smoothness of the tongue, Has promises ...
Amityville (Jared Barhite Poems)
"I was a stranger and ye took me in, Hungry and ye fed me," No place for me at Newpoint Inn, So home ...
Retrospection (Jared Barhite Poems)
I sit when the shadows are stealing The light of departing day, And think of the scenes and pleasures I enjoyed in my ...
The Tree Of State (Jared Barhite Poems)
Tree of our state and emblem of neatness, Beauty and grace abide in thy form; Not in thy blood alone courses a ...
Alone (Jared Barhite Poems)
Alone! God saw His creature man, Deprived of great felicity, And changed the order of His plan That earth in harmony might be With ...
Mind Awakened (Jared Barhite Poems)
The battle is not to the mighty, Nor the race to the fleet of foot, The peak is not reached by bounding, Nor ...
Arbor Day Tribute (Jared Barhite Poems)
With lavish hand our God hath spread Beauty and fragrance o'er the land; His smile revives the seeming dead; Nature awakes at His ...
The Requirements Of The Hour (Jared Barhite Poems)
It is hard to tell at the dawn of day What the sunset shades may bring, The plans we make may be ...