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 Sadness (54 Poems)
How Have I Caught At Fleeting Joys (Patience Worth Poems)
How have I caught at fleeting joys,And swifter fleeting sorrows, and days and nights,And morns and eves, and seasons too,Aslipping ...
Gloria! (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, ye mighty walls and towering spires!Astride the cowled gabled ways;Thy emblazoned scripts depictingFanciful reaction of ancient times;Smoking altars upon ...
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 Day’s Work (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, behold the roadways,Lying stretched in grey dust-patternsAbout the fields, curving the hillocksLike necklets of ash. And the creepingPageantry of ...
Phantoms Of The Cool Sands (Patience Worth Poems)
When the sands grow cool, and the lazy tideSwings heavy 'gainst the shore,Leaning its waves in languorous easeTo the curve ...
Philomel (Patience Worth Poems)
Lapping thy grey wingUpon the purple evening sky,Oh Philomel, oh Philomel!Winding thy song on a shuttle of woodbine,Oh Philomel, oh ...
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 ...
The Heart’s Morning (Patience Worth Poems)
Be still, my heart! Make not a noiseThat shall claim me.I would not listen unto thy sorrowing.I would not know ...
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 ...
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 ...
Slave Or King? (Patience Worth Poems)
Am I a slave upon a dun-dust path,Weighted sore, bourne low of Sorrow's plying?Set on my way by One who ...
On Understanding (Patience Worth Poems)
Touched with compassion am I at the hour's agony,Knowing well the folly of anguish,Taking in the fulness of the empty ...
My Playfellow (Patience Worth Poems)
I remember thee in my youth, when our handsWere still soft and dimpled, and the contact of them;And the bright ...
Behold, With My Naked Hands (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, with my naked hands did I part my ribs,Baring my heart in a basin of scarlet.Into this did I ...
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 ...
The Cross Upon The Path (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, you may not pass, you, upon the path-You may not pass!Oh, by the green fields you may stray,Or by ...
To Know Thee, To Know Thee! (Patience Worth Poems)
To know thee. To know thee. To know thee!To become comrade with thy day,Then I should know the agony of ...
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 ...
The Key (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh what a golden staff is Thine!Muteness is the key to wisdom!Wisdom is learned by the tuning of this keyWithin ...
Prayer (Patience Worth Poems)
Who would pray, let him thenMake his prayer the sheathe of the sword,And not the sword. Let him thenMake his ...
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 ...
The Well Of Sorrow (Patience Worth Poems)
There is a well at the roadside of life,A deep, deep well, whose water is soft.And man passeth uponThe dusty ...
The Office Of The Body (Patience Worth Poems)
Thus is flesh heir unto decay-That tabernacle in the desert,Swept by the ages, an instant's abodeFor an utterance of God, ...
I Have Beheld Thy Consternation (Patience Worth Poems)
Today, beloved, I have beheldThy Consternation. I have watchedThy child-gaze as it raisedFrom the fragments of thy beloved toy.I have ...
The Universal Singing (Patience Worth Poems)
Today I heard a harp mournBeneath the hand of one who stroked.Strange, but the echo laughed!How might I know thenWhether ...
My Kinship (Patience Worth Poems)
Am I then but an atom,A whit of spew from the maw of Eternity-Yea nothingness, set in the motion of ...
The Message (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, my love, my sweet, thou my companion!Let me touch thee. I would not know thy face,But the surety of ...
The Voice Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
Wondrous God whom I would know;How long have I wondered what musicMight be fitting to denote Thy voice.Would it sound ...