God’s Answering Silence (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would seek my God and know Him;When I would feel my God and see Him; when IWould list ...
Patience Worth Poems on Birds (15 Poems)
Lullaby (Patience Worth Poems)
Strum, strum!Ah, wee one,Croon unto the tendril tipped with sungilt,Nodding thee from o'er the doorsill there.Strum, strum!My wheel shall sing ...
The Greatest Jest (Patience Worth Poems)
That the mountains are hap-hazard strewn;That the valleys sink but by a whim;That the songs of all the birds areBut ...
Stripped Lilacs (Patience Worth Poems)
I dinna believe I would have recalledWhen the lilacs had browned,For their purple plumes had noddedBlithesomely upon the sunlit airs.I ...
My Valley (Patience Worth Poems)
I recall a certain valley that lay secluded,Guarded by two somber mountains-Each a sentinel; a valley where it seemedThat happiness ...
His Power (Patience Worth Poems)
Wherein lay His strength?His hands were as the hands of all men,And his power as the power of all. men.Wherein ...
Heart Of Mine (Patience Worth Poems)
Heart of mine, bruised as a birdIn a wicker, beating that it free!Heart of mine! Heart of mine!I would soothe ...
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 ...
Youth (Patience Worth Poems)
And it is spring!There is pale perfume, and unoped buds,Unborn radiances; the half-veiled sun,The soft new clouds, the pale, pale ...
Beloved (Patience Worth Poems)
Beloved, we have known long hours of quietude, sweet paths of shadow.Never a fear, yet we have confided wonderingly of ...
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 ...
My Beauteous Script (Patience Worth Poems)
I know no script so true as a garden wallWith honeysuckle and heliotrope intertwined,And elder flowers spreadIn misty loveliness, and ...
Night (Patience Worth Poems)
Hush, hush, this is night-The holy hour set apart for the faithful.Hush, hush, this is night.Silently the stars come forthTo ...
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 ...
Time, The Goose (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, I can jest with Time-The goose which I pluck, each day a feather,Which I lightly blow upon eternity-Hoping it ...