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 (107 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, ...
The Ogre (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an ogre abroad, boys, There's an ogre abroad, A three-handed monster That makes his abode In hamlet and city, In country and town, And revels ...
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 ...
A Lesson From Nature (Jared Barhite Poems)
O who has not felt his gay heart beat with gladness, As forth he has wandered some morning in May? It drives ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kindred Spirits (Jared Barhite Poems)
Oh, give me some heart of a kindred spirit That smiles when I smile, or that weeps when I weep, Whose solace ...
Lake George, N. Y. (Jared Barhite Poems)
Beautiful, beautiful Horicon! Over thy waters so blue, Sunshine and shadow in silence flit on, Painting fresh scenes on the ecstatic view. Blue are ...
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 ...
The Voice (Jared Barhite Poems)
To me comes a voice that none other Hath power to hear or to know, Its cadence so sweet and consoling Is a ...
The Lone Bird (Jared Barhite Poems)
A solitary bird was seen by the writer, making its toilsome flightagainst a strong storm-wind. The peculiar undulating flight, thegathering ...
Drifting Away (Jared Barhite Poems)
How softly, how still, are we drifting away, On the wide Sea of Life as it beckons us on, Though the sunshine ...
Oceanus’ Mirror, Trinity Lake, N. Y. (Jared Barhite Poems)
I've been charmed by many a picture, That has brought its master renown; I have looked on beautiful valleys From the mountain's lofty ...