The Phantom And The Dreamer (Patience Worth Poems)
Phantom:Thick stands the hill in garb of fir,And winter-stripped the branching shrub.Cold grey the sky, and glistered o'erWith star-dust pulsing ...
Patience Worth Poems on Hope (14 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 ...
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 ...
Swift As Light-Flash O’ Storm (Patience Worth Poems)
Swift as light-flash o' storm, swift, swift,Would I send the wish o' thine asearch.Swift, swift as bruise o' swallow's wing ...
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 ...
Piper Of The Past (Patience Worth Poems)
I sit beside the sweeping waters,Letting fancy free, and throughThe vast realms of Time comes to meA far-off cry, wailing ...
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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Flower Of Sorrow (Patience Worth Poems)
If my sorrow wert a flowerGrowing upon a swinging bough,I wonder would I pluck it? Oh, I wonder!Yet, what more ...
Folly And Wisdom (Patience Worth Poems)
On a certain day of a certain spring,In a certain garden, youthed I stood,Filled of hope, with joy a-spurting.Oh, this ...
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 ...
Hope, The Constant (Patience Worth Poems)
How constant is hope, how faithful her trend!Ceaselessly doth she walk beside me,With her gaudy touch tippingEach dull task with ...