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 Soul (36 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Love (Jared Barhite Poems)
Love is a sort of cannibal And lives upon its kind, It dares all dangers, fears no foes And to the world is ...
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 ...
Music (Jared Barhite Poems)
When musical chords are tensioned To sentiments they should express, And touched by a master artist Whose deft hand gives the proper stress, The ...
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 ...
Their Life Is What They Make It (Jared Barhite Poems)
Let melancholy mortals grieve And tell their tale of sorrow, Their gloomy spirits to relieve, But all returns to-morrow; For all the while they ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Thrush (Jared Barhite Poems)
When on mountain road I travel, Stained with dust and dirt and gravel, In cool shade I sit me down; Oft I see ...
Heartstrings (Jared Barhite Poems)
The tiny trembling tendons That twine about the heart, Are chords that yield a music Unknown to vocal art. Though soft the notes are ...
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 ...
Duty Done (Jared Barhite Poems)
A duty done is victory won, E'en though in the doing, Efforts may fail to bring avail In lines we are pursuing. Nothing is ...
On Brooklyn Bridge (Jared Barhite Poems)
I stood upon the slender link That joins two cities into one, And saw from thence the storm-clouds drink Their moisture from the ...
Lies (Jared Barhite Poems)
If aught on earth my soul can fire, 'Tis the deception of a liar Who with soft smoothness of the tongue, Has promises ...
Success (Jared Barhite Poems)
Success knows no diminution, For failure hovers so near, That with trace of slight dilution, Success must cease to appear. We look in vain ...
Incompetence (Jared Barhite Poems)
Sometimes our soul within us burns To see dark Ignorance aspire To move toward light a mind that yearns For knowledge that may ...
The Hair (Jared Barhite Poems)
Since the days of primal story Of Eden's happy pair, A woman's greatest glory Is her glossy flowing hair; It is a safe criterion By ...
Retrospection (Jared Barhite Poems)
I sit when the shadows are stealing The light of departing day, And think of the scenes and pleasures I enjoyed in my ...