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 ...
Touched with compassion am I at the hour's agony,Knowing well the folly of anguish,Taking in the fulness of the empty ...
Poor and inadequate the shadow-playOf gain and loss, of waking and of dream,Against life's solemn background needs must seemAt this ...
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
I There is a man of fifty-four years; He has dyspepsia, it appears; He chooses his food carefully, He pays ...
18th November 1852 "VICTORY!" So once more the cry must ...
CARISBROOKE Church on the fifth of November Flung out the silver hid deep in her chimes; This was her burden, ...
Why is the heaven-descended mind(For nobler purposes design'd)So close attach'd to frail unthinking clay?Fain would she taste the joys of ...
Is that the only way we can become like Indians, like Rhinoceri, like Quartz Crystals, like organic farmers, like what ...
SLOW to the silent mansions of the dead,Yon train in sad funereal pomp draws near;That solemn knell proclaims a spirit ...
I hear Thy voice, dear Lord;I hear it by the stormy sea When winter nights are black and wild,And when, ...
Keats I admire thine upward daring Soul,Thine eager grasp at immortalityI deem within thy reach; -- rejoic'd I seeThee spurn, ...
In the stumble of my days more than a purposeful walk staggering in my witness failing to bear the cross ...
The future, a new thing God's hand ever upon us a hope for the future in the prophet's words the ...
The words of the scripture, of the pastor, assuring, reminding not self-made, not even partially God is the actor, the ...
Eyes to see your presence your presence in all things, your grace in all things, everywhere, all around us your ...
I hear Thy voice, dear Lord; I hear it by the stormy sea When winter nights are black and wild, ...
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
Lady, lady, should you meet One whose ways are all discreet, One who murmurs that his wife Is the lodestar ...
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