Patience (Caroline Fry Poems)
Patience, when heathen darkness veil'd the world,Was that high spirit of unbending pride,That dar'd to err, but was asham'd to ...
Caroline Fry Poems on God (21 Poems)
On the Love of God (Caroline Fry Poems)
There was a slave, who, born to days unbless'd,Drew from his parent blood the hard decreeOf ceaseless and unwilling servitude.His ...
Unto Him That Loved Us And Washed Us From Our Sins (Caroline Fry Poems)
LOV'D me! There needs, indeed, a voice from heaven,Fraught with some message of supernal potence,To teach me, Holy Father, that ...
Easter Thoughts (Caroline Fry Poems)
IS'T joy to me that Jesus lives? That he,Whom mortals buried, burst the riven tomb,And came again to prove that ...
Humility (Caroline Fry Poems)
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
Reflections on the Close of the Year; Being Also My Birth-day (Caroline Fry Poems)
'Tis past—and the recording angel bearsTo Heaven the record of another year—Another year of nature's and of mine!Nature has known ...
Written On Hearing it Said, We Ought Not to Pray for Our Saviour’s Second Coming Upon Earth (Caroline Fry Poems)
And is it so? Look at creation round!See you how fair, how beautiful it is,How form'd to bless, how exquisite ...
The Sabbath (Caroline Fry Poems)
You would that I write on the Sabbath of God,But know you the meaning contain'd in that word?You would that ...
The Mediator (Caroline Fry Poems)
I WILL arise and go unto my Father,Alas! and when I throw me at his feet,What can I say?,The Prodigal ...
Midnight Thoughts (Caroline Fry Poems)
Why is my soul with weariness oppress'd,Whence is this load so heavy on my breast?Why is the tear so often ...
Written in Time of Sickness, On Hearing it Asked If I Was Resigned to Die (Caroline Fry Poems)
Resign'd! —I am resign'd, if Heaven so will,To tread awhile the subterranean pathThat leads me to my Father and my ...
The Complaint (Caroline Fry Poems)
O YOU who at lighter afflictions repine,Arrest your complainings and list ye to mine,And you who can sorrow for every ...
The Rejected Prayer (Caroline Fry Poems)
Is it not thine, O God, this passing world? Is it not thine to give it at thy will?But ...
To a Friend, on Taking Leave of Oare (Caroline Fry Poems)
Let us loiter awhile on this beautiful hill,—The last time, perhaps, we shall meet on its brow;The days that so ...
To a Bird Singing In The Church (Caroline Fry Poems)
THOU pretty Bird, it is not here That thou art used to sing;Thou art not wont, on perch like ...
The Setting Sun (Caroline Fry Poems)
That sun which is yonder so brightly declining,That you look at with careless delight,Full many a lesson of wisdom might ...
On Hearing the Song of a Bird One Cold Sabbath Evening in February (Caroline Fry Poems)
What novel song, sweet Bird, has tun'd thy throatThou art not wont to find so sweet a note,When scarce a ...
Faith (Caroline Fry Poems)
Faith, like a simple, unsuspecting child,Serenely resting on its mother's arm,Reposing every care upon her God,Sleeps on his bosom, and ...
Israel’s Prayer (Caroline Fry Poems)
FORSAKEN, desolate,Ah! where is he, The God Eternal, whom our fathers served?A God whose name his children vainly boast, ...
A Thought On Beachy Head (Caroline Fry Poems)
ENOUGH for feeling, though too brief for words A moment on the lofty cliff I stood,And from the fearful ...
To a Friend Who Complained that She Had Not a Home (Caroline Fry Poems)
Sad and slow was the wanderer's tread,As o'er the lengthen'd way she sped;And often she cast a wishful eyeOn the ...