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 Heaven (29 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 ...
In Answer To A Remark (Caroline Fry Poems)
I KNEW a stream,'twas yonder, where, Now bleak and bare,There was a covert once of ...
On Hearing It Said There Is No Satisfactory Happiness On Earth (Caroline Fry Poems)
NAY, Sister, nay,but say not so,For o'er my memory even nowThere comes, as if it were a dream,A train indeed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Parting From a Friend (Caroline Fry Poems)
Farewell! —and if for ever —what a doubtStrikes through the soul at that tremendous thought!'Tis not the world's for ever ...
A Borrowed Thought (Caroline Fry Poems)
SISTER of Faith and Charity, Where there are only three;Fit habitant of heaven, yet content, ...
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 ...
On Being Asked the Necessity of Prayer (Caroline Fry Poems)
You ask me why I bend the kneeIn attitude of prayer,If I believe myself ordain'dEternal glory's heir?List, and I'll tell ...
The Consolation (Caroline Fry Poems)
POOR child of affliction! I heard thee repine,And my heart beat with sorrow responsive to thine;And one who has long ...
The Twin Roses (Caroline Fry Poems)
TWINS of one morning, on a single stem, Two Roses side by side were growing,On each alike there hung ...
The Lily (Caroline Fry Poems)
Look down from heaven, and behold and visit this vine.Psalm lxxx. 14. The spot where I loiter'd was lonely and ...
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 Barren Rock (Caroline Fry Poems)
A LONELY Rock On the sea-shore stood,Its head to heaven, Its base in the flood,The dews of morning ...
On Seeing Some Butterflies In A Clover Field On The Sabbath (Caroline Fry Poems)
ON thy beds of clover playing, Pretty Insect, why so gay?Why so blithely dress'd this morning? 'Tis to ...
The Winter Moon (Caroline Fry Poems)
AH! where, lovely Planet, Ah! where dost thou stray;Thy path it is lonely, And trackless thy way.It seems ...
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, ...
To a Friend (Caroline Fry Poems)
Behold you the beam On yonder tide,As it gently plays On the vessel's side?The white sails are spread, ...
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 ...
The Vine-Branch (Caroline Fry Poems)
I saw beneath its native stemThe sever'd Vine-branch layed,The dews were fresh upon its cheek,The sun-beam on its head.The new-blown ...
Written On The Funeral Of Miss S. (Caroline Fry Poems)
SLOWLY moves the sable trainOf one who comes not back again,And feelings on the bosom grow,Of pensiveness,but not of woe.Woe ...
The Blossom (Caroline Fry Poems)
Said Anna to Jane, as they loiter'd one day,In the year's early spring, b the garden-hedge side,—"Those bright, clustering flowers ...
When Shall I Flee Away, and Be at Rest? (Caroline Fry Poems)
Whither wouldst thou, restless Spirit?Why so ill content to stay?Ne'er was night so long and gloomy,But it yielded to the ...
The Skylark (Caroline Fry Poems)
ASK the bird that soars on high,Midway between earth and sky,What he sees, when he is there,On the world's receding ...