How Have I Caught At Fleeting Joys (Patience Worth Poems)
How have I caught at fleeting joys,And swifter fleeting sorrows, and days and nights,And morns and eves, and seasons too,Aslipping ...
How have I caught at fleeting joys,And swifter fleeting sorrows, and days and nights,And morns and eves, and seasons too,Aslipping ...
Oh, I once had a smile, and it flickeredAnd flashed o'er my shadowy way.But I needed it not, and I ...
Swift as light-flash o' storm, swift, swift,Would I send the wish o' thine asearch.Swift, swift as bruise o' swallow's wing ...
Behold, He sits beside the sea of Eternity,Whose dead waters are troubled, and LoveBursts the gateway of His lips,And the ...
Touch me, mine ain!Touch me with a hand of loving.Let thy flesh bespeak me thy companionship.Behold, I am before thee ...
My soul is a silver harp,Whose strings are as tenuous as moonbeams,Whose notes are iridescent, like rainbowsOr prisms-glinting, liveWith souls ...
Where do I abide?Ask me this, oh man, and I answer,Within the pit of thy heart;Within all things that possess ...
What magic is thine, beloved?Lo, had the day become a worn thingAnd the vessels of office trinketsOf memory. What magic ...
How have I sought, yea how have asought!And seeked me ever through the earth's hours,Amid the damp, cool morn, when ...
Who would pray, let him thenMake his prayer the sheathe of the sword,And not the sword. Let him thenMake his ...
I am an announcement of the great Urge.I am an enactor of its agonies and joys.I am an inheritant of ...
Thus is flesh heir unto decay-That tabernacle in the desert,Swept by the ages, an instant's abodeFor an utterance of God, ...
Wondrous God whom I would know;How long have I wondered what musicMight be fitting to denote Thy voice.Would it sound ...
Gethsemane, Gethsemane, Gethsemane!Oh, Garden of Sorrow! Whose pathwaysKnew His tread and His sacred sorrow.Oh, that thy herbage might speak!That thy ...
And it is spring!There is pale perfume, and unoped buds,Unborn radiances; the half-veiled sun,The soft new clouds, the pale, pale ...
Teach me. Teach me!Let me never become so oldThat my ears are not pits.Teach me. Teach me!Let every man become ...
Mine ain, take heart, there be nay night.E'en though the eye doth see the dark.Mine ain, take heart, for love ...
Prayer is pregnant of desire,As man uttereth it. To me,Prayer is a simple announcementOf companionship with God;An acknowledgement of my ...
Earth, thou ancient cradle, rocking Creation!Earth, old mother of man, man whose lipsHave pressed thy breast since Time.Earth, reproachless, ope-armed ...
Elusive gift, a song! HoveringA moment as a moth upon the wing-A part of the sunlight, a part of the ...
Ye airs of tides agone,That smote the cheek of Him;Upon the earth dost thou still stir?Then waft ye close. Yea, ...
Gently, Oh Lord, I awaken to Thy wisdom,Reaching each day with a certain joy.Sorrow hath been mine---but a gentle sorrow;And ...
Yea, in the holy moonlightWhen the nightingale sobs, 'tis notOf joy but plaintive tuned.And in the mornThe lark calls, calls, ...
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