The Phantom And The Dreamer (Patience Worth Poems)
Phantom:Thick stands the hill in garb of fir,And winter-stripped the branching shrub.Cold grey the sky, and glistered o'erWith star-dust pulsing ...
Patience Worth Poems on Love (65 Poems)
I Searched Among The Hills (Patience Worth Poems)
I searched among the hills to find His love,And found but waving trees, and stonesWhere lizards flaunt their green and ...
A God Of Wrath? (Patience Worth Poems)
Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the lightnings!Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the thunders!Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the tempest!Fearful, fearful! ...
The White River (Patience Worth Poems)
Who is he who leadeth legionsIn glittering array, while the cloudsAre tipped in living lightning,And the sky overlaced with its ...
Death (Patience Worth Poems)
Who art thou,Who tracketh 'pon the path o' me-O' each turn, aye, and track?Thou! And thou astand!And o'er thy face ...
Who Art Thou, Who Tracketh ‘Pon The Path O’ Me? (Patience Worth Poems)
Who art thou,Who tracketh 'pon the path o' meO' each turn, aye, and track?Thou! And thou astand!And o'er thy face ...
All Silver-Laced With Web (Patience Worth Poems)
All silver-laced with web and crystal-studded,Hangs a golden lily cup,As airy as a dancing sprite.The moon hath caught a fleeting ...
The Inheritance Of Ages (Patience Worth Poems)
Strange, is it not, beloved, that even as I lay my cheek to thine,Even as my eyes behold thine, even ...
Ah, Greet The Day (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, greet the day, which, like a golden butterfly,Hovereth 'twixt the night and morn;And welcome her fullness-the hours 'mid shadowAnd ...
Wasted Treasures (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, I once had a smile, and it flickeredAnd flashed o'er my shadowy way.But I needed it not, and I ...
Doubt (Patience Worth Poems)
Like to a thief who wrappeth himWithin the night-tide's robe,So standeth the specter o' the Earth;Yea, he doth robe him ...
If I Should Pray (Patience Worth Poems)
If I should pray, I thinkThat my prayer should be: "Let my handsNever learn the ending of their task."For if ...
A Beggar Am I (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, a beggar am I. The skyO'er my head and the vast spreading fieldsAll are mine. No path that doth leadO'er the ...
Love As God (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, He sits beside the sea of Eternity,Whose dead waters are troubled, and LoveBursts the gateway of His lips,And the ...
My Love-Necklace (Patience Worth Poems)
My love is a necklet of pence.Each day I add a disc. If IBe spending mine hours for the worth ...
I Am Beside Thee (Patience Worth Poems)
Touch me, mine ain!Touch me with a hand of loving.Let thy flesh bespeak me thy companionship.Behold, I am before thee ...
Nodding, Nodding ‘Pon Thy Stem (Patience Worth Poems)
Nodding, nodding 'pon thy stem,Thou bloom o' morn; nodding, noddingTo the bees, asearch o' honey's sweet.Wilt thou to droop, and ...
The Silver Harp (Patience Worth Poems)
My soul is a silver harp,Whose strings are as tenuous as moonbeams,Whose notes are iridescent, like rainbowsOr prisms-glinting, liveWith souls ...
My Abode (Patience Worth Poems)
Where do I abide?Ask me this, oh man, and I answer,Within the pit of thy heart;Within all things that possess ...
When Love Came (Patience Worth Poems)
I remember it was young MayWhen love came, unbidden, unto me,I remember the very eve, with its aloofness,Yet its yielding.I ...
Do I To Love The Morn (Patience Worth Poems)
Do I to love the morn, when Earth awakes,And streams aglint o' sun's first gold,As siren's tresses flowed them through ...
Gone! Gone! Ayea, Thou Art Gone! (Patience Worth Poems)
Gone! Gone! Ayea, thou art gone!Gone, and earth doth stand it stark.Gone! Gone! The even's breathDoth breathe it unto meIn ...
Forgiveness (Patience Worth Poems)
Man hath no part with forgiveness.Beside the forgiveness of God, man'sForgiveness be a puny thing. To forgive-To undo action with ...
I Beseech Thee, Lord, For Naught! (Patience Worth Poems)
I beseech Thee, Lord, for naught!But cry aloud unto the sunlightWho bathes the earth in gold,And boldly breaketh into cranniesYet ...
God As Love (Patience Worth Poems)
And He, the God, is as man,Flesh, substance, else His symbol lies;And He knoweth not the trick!Thus is He less ...
Wisdom’s Rude Lover (Patience Worth Poems)
Gently, brother, gently. Have reverence!Remember, wisdom is an aged thing.Be not flippant; be not pertly jestful.Gently, brother, gently. Remember, the ...
The Pilgrim Fathers (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, in a rude hulk, with no cargo save Hope!-With a prow uplifted against the wave,And a mast of Faith! ...
Ah, Emptied Heart! (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, emptied heart! The weary o' the path!How would I to fill ye up o' love!I'd tear this lute, that ...
Magic Words (Patience Worth Poems)
I am amused. I sit plying words,Such cunning little puppets!Think of "it." Ye may set "it"Beside a noble and make ...
Love (Patience Worth Poems)
I am an announcement of the great Urge.I am an enactor of its agonies and joys.I am an inheritant of ...