Immortality (Patience Worth Poems)
Upon yesterday's lotus the dew pearledAnd vanished with the sun.On a certain morning e'er the winter ceased,Lo, did the songsters ...
Patience Worth Poems on Belief & Faith (23 Poems)
Man’s Promises, And God’s (Patience Worth Poems)
I need no assurance from man. I needNo word of his faith. For me is madeA covenant between my God ...
The Pilgrim Fathers (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, in a rude hulk, with no cargo save Hope!-With a prow uplifted against the wave,And a mast of Faith! ...
Faithful Under The Smite (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, mighty God, with faltering lipsWould I proclaim Thy magnitude.Ever have I beheld Thee where man denied Thee.I with mine ...
My Faith (Patience Worth Poems)
My faith is the lighting of my black night,The beacon of its pit-like sea.My faith is a staff within my ...
The Sentinels Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
If thou shouldst demand of me:"Show me then God's sentinels,His pledge-keepers with man,"I should fall fearful before the taskAn instant ...
How Shall I Die? (Patience Worth Poems)
How shall I die?Shall I lay me down upon a rosed couch-Sipping cool waters, and languorously die?Shall I do some ...
The Cleared Path (Patience Worth Poems)
Mine eyes are not afraid.I have lifted them unto heaven,And the light was mild,Aye, and comfort-dealing!I, no longer with that ...
What Is Faith? (Patience Worth Poems)
Would that I might say "Faith" and understand it.My faith is as a tenuous web-Ensnaring yet elusive;I may enmesh the ...
Free (Patience Worth Poems)
I am no longer afraid of acknowledgement.I have walked surely with a staff of doubt,Confident of my sureness!But that was ...
God, Man Made (Patience Worth Poems)
So this is God, this puppet, this figure,This little pagan idol,Man's words have fashioned him out!He resides not save within ...
Is This Egotry? (Patience Worth Poems)
I make no argument with God.Is this egotry? Methinks I have listenedO'er long to His arguments from the lips of ...
The Evidence (Patience Worth Poems)
Now do I pin upon retainingThe vibrant chord of my being,Forgetting in this egot desire,That the music of heaven may ...
I Made A Song (Patience Worth Poems)
I made a song from the dead notes of his birds,And wove a wreath of withered lily buds,And gathered daisies ...
Man, The Fisher (Patience Worth Poems)
How strange is the day, how strange!About me surge the waves, the torrentsOf man's hunger for knowledge,And he who would ...
A Blighted Bud May Hold (Patience Worth Poems)
A blighted bud may holdA sweeter message. than the loveliest flower.For God hath kissed her wounded heartAnd left a promise ...
America (Patience Worth Poems)
Loosed as a gull from the East, which seemsTo spring from the sun's disk scarlet gleaming!Loosed as a gull from ...
Gently I Awaken To Thy Wisdom (Patience Worth Poems)
Gently, Oh Lord, I awaken to Thy wisdom,Reaching each day with a certain joy.Sorrow hath been mine---but a gentle sorrow;And ...
Flying Hoof-Beats (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, like a rider on and on,Lashing his steed, my fancy goes.Each pulse-beat marks the wayAnd fiery sparks belight the ...
Earth-Brown Brother (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, wee plumed, earth-brown brother,Whose nest hangs damp at dawn;Hast thou begun at day's fair breakTo sing of Night's soft ...
Wait A Little While (Patience Worth Poems)
Wait yet a little while,And sorrows shall find a shadow.Wait yet a little while,And the grey cloud shall rift.Wait yet ...
Intuition (Patience Worth Poems)
Intuition be the seed of faithIn him who doth not reason.Reason be oft the arrow's point to faith.Yea, but reason ...
Faith (Patience Worth Poems)
Faith be the shadow of love,Cleaved unto love's side for aye.Love be born with nay whyUpon its lips and likewise ...