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 Silence (14 Poems)
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 ...
Man’s Promises, And God’s (Patience Worth Poems)
I need no assurance from man. I needNo word of his faith. For me is madeA covenant between my God ...
The Greatest Jest (Patience Worth Poems)
That the mountains are hap-hazard strewn;That the valleys sink but by a whim;That the songs of all the birds areBut ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eternity (Patience Worth Poems)
Beyond me stretcheth that silver sand,Marked not by e'en one waving palm or plume.Beyond me, tracklessly, spreadethThe glittering field, trod ...
Twilight (Patience Worth Poems)
Twilight. Long shadows stretchTheir stealthy fingers wood-ward.Soft tolls the bell which marks the vesper hour.Mist-veiled, the hillocks liftTheir heads 'gainst ...
Is This Egotry? (Patience Worth Poems)
I make no argument with God.Is this egotry? Methinks I have listenedO'er long to His arguments from the lips of ...
The Sphinx (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, with empty socketsStaring o'er the desert's way;Mutely countenancing the tragediesOf ages; crawled o'er as by gnats,By tribes that in ...
Mother Earth (Patience Worth Poems)
Earth, thou ancient cradle, rocking Creation!Earth, old mother of man, man whose lipsHave pressed thy breast since Time.Earth, reproachless, ope-armed ...
God-Angry? (Patience Worth Poems)
In Him there is no anger.His irony is eloquent.His ardor is suppliant.In Him there is no anger.His might is gentle, ...
Sleep (Patience Worth Poems)
And it is night, dark sabled night;Bare branches lined against the sky,And mottling shadows blurred.And it is night. The weary ...
Faith (Patience Worth Poems)
Faith be the shadow of love,Cleaved unto love's side for aye.Love be born with nay whyUpon its lips and likewise ...