Fidelity (Jared Barhite Poems)
When the infant world in its swaddling band Of mist and cloud and storm, Assumed its forms of sea and land, And the ...
Jared Barhite Poems on Mind (46 Poems)
Our Profession (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an art in our profession, Which cannot be wholly learned From all books in our possession, Though their leaves be deftly turned Till ...
Needs And Powers (Jared Barhite Poems)
I know of no profession 'Mong profane or divine, Excelling in its mission The power embraced in mine. It reaches earth and heaven Through heart ...
The Desirable Undefined (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have often thought there's a power Unknown to science or art, That opens and closes the portals That lead to the human ...
My Choice (Jared Barhite Poems)
I would rather dwell a hermit In some silent peaceful wood, Where no voice of human being Ever breaks the solitude; Where babbling brook, ...
Our Battlefield (Jared Barhite Poems)
There are fields of martial glory Where the slain are ne'er bemoaned; There are victories though silent, Where grim monarchs are dethroned; There are ...
The Five Senses (Jared Barhite Poems)
THE EYE. Some eyes are trained to scan large field Till instantaneous glance may yield A knowledge full and plenty; While others keep a ...
School Days (Jared Barhite Poems)
Can we e'er forget our boyhood, And the days we spent at school, With the jolly youths and maidens Who with pencil for ...
The Difference (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have scanned the roll of teachers, Have noted the Aarons and Hurs Who have stayed education's Moses, And removed the cumbrous bars That ...
Communion With Nature (Jared Barhite Poems)
'Tis sweet to hold communion With Nature true and wild, And feel the thrill of gladness She breathes upon her child, When close upon ...
Some Characters I Much Adore (Jared Barhite Poems)
An honest man with noble mind, With heart sincere, true, and refined, Who lives for God and all mankind, Who cares for rich ...
Poundridge, N. Y. (Jared Barhite Poems)
Perhaps no spot upon this sphere, Has charms for me more sacred, dear, Than those of old Poundridge; I love her hills, her ...
Some Characters I Can’t Admire (Jared Barhite Poems)
The seeming saint with long drawn face, Who thinks that he has so much grace He should be throned on highest place To ...
Liberty (Jared Barhite Poems)
Into the port where Liberty stands Inviting the nations to woo her, Malefactors swarm from foreign lands, Whose tenets would surely undo her. Criminals, ...
Important Moments (Jared Barhite Poems)
There are times when the fate of nations May hang on a moment's call; When spheres in their mute rotations May swing on ...
The Future (Jared Barhite Poems)
I know not what the future May have in store for me, I only know that God is God And He may trusted ...
The Teacher’s Soliloquy (Jared Barhite Poems)
And so another week has gone, And I once more am left alone Within my silent room; My mind is worn by fervent ...
My Room In Boyhood’s Days (Jared Barhite Poems)
After forty years. Sacred these walls wherein I find Myself inclosed once more; Here in youth's pride my ardent mind On nightly tasks would ...
Good Habits (Jared Barhite Poems)
A silent force marks out the course Of every man and woman, No matter what may be the lot Of creatures that are ...
Fact Versus Form (Jared Barhite Poems)
As shadows are to material forms, As mists to the copious shower As dead calms are to tornado storms That in tropical region ...
Twilight Hour (Jared Barhite Poems)
I love to spend the twilight hour When stars their radiance o'er me cast, With that benign mysterious power Which calls up mem'ries ...
Sunset (Jared Barhite Poems)
Softly the tints of expiring day Tinge th' vaults of Hesperian heaven, Leaving a trace of the sun's mellow ray To escort the ...
Memory (Jared Barhite Poems)
Earthly scenes are worth preserving, Bitter though they sometimes be; Who would wish to sink in Lethe All the fruits of Memory? None could ...
Mountain Brook (Jared Barhite Poems)
Beneath the shade deep in a dell, Where fairy spirits ever dwell,-- Away from haunts of men, A living thing of godlike birth, By ...
Indulgence (Jared Barhite Poems)
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
Fragments (Jared Barhite Poems)
This world was made of fragments Each separate from the other, Yet in such close relation As to indicate a brother. Each atom of ...
An Open Book (Jared Barhite Poems)
How strange are the stories we sometimes read In faces we meet by the way, They unconsciously tell of motive or deed That ...
Evil Habits (Jared Barhite Poems)
How habit grows no one e'er knows, And yet he is a giant That has a will and subtle skill That never yet ...
Discontent (Jared Barhite Poems)
Let quiet people talk of peace-- Contentment of the mind, But he who lives at perfect ease Can never bless mankind. If each no ...
The Second Sunday In May (Jared Barhite Poems)
Softly the breezes dance o'er the meadows, Wafting the perfume of sweet-scented May; Flecked are the green fields with sunshine and shadows, Telling ...