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 God (61 Poems)
Gloria! (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, ye mighty walls and towering spires!Astride the cowled gabled ways;Thy emblazoned scripts depictingFanciful reaction of ancient times;Smoking altars upon ...
I Searched Among The Hills (Patience Worth Poems)
I searched among the hills to find His love,And found but waving trees, and stonesWhere lizards flaunt their green and ...
A God Of Wrath? (Patience Worth Poems)
Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the lightnings!Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the thunders!Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the tempest!Fearful, fearful! ...
The Fields Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
I have been within the fieldAt the young morning, when the thrushTore ope the brushy way, marking her flightWith the ...
Thine Own Song (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would sing, thou hast struck me dumb.When I would make a glorious noise,My lute respondeth not.Oh, e'en the ...
I Know That God Is (Patience Worth Poems)
There is nothing in all the preachmentsOf man which either stimulatesOr confounds me. I have known,Since first my soul beheld ...
The Garden Of Youth (Patience Worth Poems)
From the depths of a garden,Where scents of heliotrope linger,And little golden-dusted blossoms nod,Where the shadows writeTheir merriment upon the ...
Spirit And Flesh (Patience Worth Poems)
Christ! Man! Dusts!Yet upon the day that He hath spokenHangeth the hope of eons that proceed!Christ! Man! Flesh!The mouthing of ...
Slave Or King? (Patience Worth Poems)
Am I a slave upon a dun-dust path,Weighted sore, bourne low of Sorrow's plying?Set on my way by One who ...
On Understanding (Patience Worth Poems)
Touched with compassion am I at the hour's agony,Knowing well the folly of anguish,Taking in the fulness of the empty ...
Personality II (Patience Worth Poems)
That thing which be the ye of ye be intangible,For it is the individual expressionOf the Great God's impulse in ...
Love As God (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, He sits beside the sea of Eternity,Whose dead waters are troubled, and LoveBursts the gateway of His lips,And the ...
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 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 ...
My Love-Necklace (Patience Worth Poems)
My love is a necklet of pence.Each day I add a disc. If IBe spending mine hours for the worth ...
Beyond The Gates (Patience Worth Poems)
Beyond that celestial gateway, Oh, tell me,Doth there stray no thing but hath reachedPerfection's Realm? Oh, let me treasureWithin my ...
The Sign Of The Star (Patience Worth Poems)
Where is the star that shone at eveO'er the hut of my youth?That beamed the heavens down, that IMight ride ...
The Silver Harp (Patience Worth Poems)
My soul is a silver harp,Whose strings are as tenuous as moonbeams,Whose notes are iridescent, like rainbowsOr prisms-glinting, liveWith souls ...
Man’s Presumption (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, man's presumption! It maketh me to smile-Tolerantly, for I am acquaintedWith the mysteries of God.Man moutheth over words,And hangeth ...
On The Character Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
The God which I announce unto my heartIs a proud God. His pride is shown in thePerfection of His labor. ...
Forgiveness (Patience Worth Poems)
Man hath no part with forgiveness.Beside the forgiveness of God, man'sForgiveness be a puny thing. To forgive-To undo action with ...
God As Love (Patience Worth Poems)
And He, the God, is as man,Flesh, substance, else His symbol lies;And He knoweth not the trick!Thus is He less ...
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 ...
The Sign Disdained (Patience Worth Poems)
To decay, to become mould, dank mould,Green-lipped, festered; to become dust-To be thwarted asunder by the hand of time-To be ...
Prayer (Patience Worth Poems)
Who would pray, let him thenMake his prayer the sheathe of the sword,And not the sword. Let him thenMake his ...
Love (Patience Worth Poems)
I am an announcement of the great Urge.I am an enactor of its agonies and joys.I am an inheritant of ...
Mary Mother (Patience Worth Poems)
Mary, mother, thou art the Spring that flowereth,Though nay man aplanteth thee.Mary, mother, the song of thee,That lulled His dreams ...
The Cup I Proffer (Patience Worth Poems)
He who presseth his lips unto the cup I profferHath bended down unto an everlasting draught.Yea, he hath quaffed a ...