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 (64 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Wild Flower (Caroline Fry Poems)
WHO heeds thee, poor flower? No fragrance is thine, No sunbeam has dress'd thee with hues of delight,Thou hast ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the Thirty-Sixth (Caroline Fry Poems)
Stay, Gentile, stay thy sacrilegious hand!Pass not thy furrows o'er my cherish'd land.Think you I heeded not to hear you ...
The Calm (Caroline Fry Poems)
NOT a sound wak'd the air, not a leaf was in motion;As a mirror of glass was the bosom of ...
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 Sea-Bird (Caroline Fry Poems)
LOUD broke the surge upon the sullen rock,The startled valleys echoed back the shock;Hard blew the wind, and far as ...
From The Thirty-Sixth Chapter Of Ezekiel (Caroline Fry Poems)
STAY , Gentile, stay thy sacrilegious hand!Pass not thy furrows o'er my cherish'd land.Think you I heeded not to hear ...
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 Who Expressed A Fear That The Bible Was A Sealed Book To Her (Caroline Fry Poems)
SEAL'D is it? Where then did you learn the sighThat speaks a knowledge which your lips deny?If its rich treasures ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Seeing A Butterfly Some Miles Out At Sea (Caroline Fry Poems)
THOU surely art rash, with thy pinions of gold, To be flitting thus far from thy home in the ...