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 ...
When I would seek my God and know Him;When I would feel my God and see Him; when IWould list ...
Who is he who leadeth legionsIn glittering array, while the cloudsAre tipped in living lightning,And the sky overlaced with its ...
Behold, behold the roadways,Lying stretched in grey dust-patternsAbout the fields, curving the hillocksLike necklets of ash. And the creepingPageantry of ...
Strange, is it not, beloved, that even as I lay my cheek to thine,Even as my eyes behold thine, even ...
Oh, what is my fancy most like unto?At times, like a little boat, which floatsSome willowed stream, soft in shades,And ...
Be still, my heart! Make not a noiseThat shall claim me.I would not listen unto thy sorrowing.I would not know ...
There is nothing in all the preachmentsOf man which either stimulatesOr confounds me. I have known,Since first my soul beheld ...
If I should pray, I thinkThat my prayer should be: "Let my handsNever learn the ending of their task."For if ...
I recall a touch, which frequently fell upon me,A chilling touch as though the shroudOf Eternity had swept me.Well I ...
(India)I shall wind a turban of silver cloth,And set upon its brow a circletOf jade and turquoise. Yea, I shall ...
Behold, He sits beside the sea of Eternity,Whose dead waters are troubled, and LoveBursts the gateway of His lips,And the ...
That the mountains are hap-hazard strewn;That the valleys sink but by a whim;That the songs of all the birds areBut ...
Touch me, mine ain!Touch me with a hand of loving.Let thy flesh bespeak me thy companionship.Behold, I am before thee ...
I am a bridge between Tomorrow and Yesterday,Yea, I am Today. Yesterday might not beWithout my coming, and TomorrowI shall ...
And He, the God, is as man,Flesh, substance, else His symbol lies;And He knoweth not the trick!Thus is He less ...
Beyond the golden gateway of the West,Whose golden bars are tipped of stars,And where, beyond, there spreads a golden Land,And ...
To decay, to become mould, dank mould,Green-lipped, festered; to become dust-To be thwarted asunder by the hand of time-To be ...
I am amused. I sit plying words,Such cunning little puppets!Think of "it." Ye may set "it"Beside a noble and make ...
I am an announcement of the great Urge.I am an enactor of its agonies and joys.I am an inheritant of ...
My faith is the lighting of my black night,The beacon of its pit-like sea.My faith is a staff within my ...
Today, beloved, I have beheldThy Consternation. I have watchedThy child-gaze as it raisedFrom the fragments of thy beloved toy.I have ...
Am I then but an atom,A whit of spew from the maw of Eternity-Yea nothingness, set in the motion of ...
God of heights! Behold me from Thy pinnacle,Thy son, unafraid! Oh, let the lightningOf Thy wrath play its havoc!I shall ...
Wondrous God whom I would know;How long have I wondered what musicMight be fitting to denote Thy voice.Would it sound ...
Man is a thirsty beggarBeside the well of life.Perforce he must drink, and die.Man is a weary beggarUpon the roadway ...
Swing, ye ages! Swing, ye tides!Like webs upon eternities.Turn, oh Earth,Turn upon thy changeful path!Leave Sorrow wet thy sides of ...
Behold man. Man, Man, God's noblest creation.What doth man do with his heritance?Show me one king who with his powerHath ...
Oh, that my words become sylvan! Yea, shadowedA retreat from the glamour of the day.Make them stream of sunlight, but ...
Lo, Wisdom is the sand upon the shoreOf Eternity. Yea, man playsUpon the shore, letting the silver stuffFlow through his ...
So this is God, this puppet, this figure,This little pagan idol,Man's words have fashioned him out!He resides not save within ...
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