God’s Answering Silence (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would seek my God and know Him;When I would feel my God and see Him; when IWould list ...
Patience Worth Poems on Listening (13 Poems)
Thine Own Song (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would sing, thou hast struck me dumb.When I would make a glorious noise,My lute respondeth not.Oh, e'en the ...
A Harp And A Necklace (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, the valley!The harp, suspended betwixt the mountains,Murmuring the music of EarthTo the great breasts whereon the sky is pillowed.Lo, ...
The Garden Of Youth (Patience Worth Poems)
From the depths of a garden,Where scents of heliotrope linger,And little golden-dusted blossoms nod,Where the shadows writeTheir merriment upon the ...
The Music Of The Sea (Patience Worth Poems)
Sing, sing, oh sea!Sing thy hush-song to the shores.Sing, sing, sing, oh seatLift thy waves as emerald tongues,Singing golden songs ...
Listening (Patience Worth Poems)
I shall lend mine ear, Lord, listening.No confusion of the day shall appall me,Neither the awesome expanse of night.I shall ...
Stripped Lilacs (Patience Worth Poems)
I dinna believe I would have recalledWhen the lilacs had browned,For their purple plumes had noddedBlithesomely upon the sunlit airs.I ...
Heart Of Mine (Patience Worth Poems)
Heart of mine, bruised as a birdIn a wicker, beating that it free!Heart of mine! Heart of mine!I would soothe ...
King And Brother (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold Him, ascended unto His kingship!Behold Him exalted unto the skies!Speak, what seest thou?Make thy words declare Him as He ...
When Mate Calls To Mate (Patience Worth Poems)
Before me, spreading endlessly,The grey roadway stretcheth.Yea, there is the willowed hedgeAnd the briared skirt, and the skySpreading gloriously, and ...
Ever The Pupil (Patience Worth Poems)
Teach me. Teach me!Let me never become so oldThat my ears are not pits.Teach me. Teach me!Let every man become ...
Comrade God (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold Thy magic, oh Lord,Creating new beauties before me!I stand upon Earth's somber crust,And watch Thee come forth, spurting in ...
Soundless Voices (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, art thou listening, brother?Then speak, what hearest thou?Hast heard the mocking of the insistent life,Which is telling itself to ...