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 Light (24 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Philomel (Patience Worth Poems)
Lapping thy grey wingUpon the purple evening sky,Oh Philomel, oh Philomel!Winding thy song on a shuttle of woodbine,Oh Philomel, oh ...
Ah, Greet The Day (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, greet the day, which, like a golden butterfly,Hovereth 'twixt the night and morn;And welcome her fullness-the hours 'mid shadowAnd ...
To Sarath A. Ghosh (Patience Worth Poems)
(India)I shall wind a turban of silver cloth,And set upon its brow a circletOf jade and turquoise. Yea, I shall ...
I Am Beside Thee (Patience Worth Poems)
Touch me, mine ain!Touch me with a hand of loving.Let thy flesh bespeak me thy companionship.Behold, I am before thee ...
The Earth, The Fields, Lie Stretched In Sleep (Patience Worth Poems)
Dead, all dead!The earth, the fields, lie stretched in sleepLike weary toilers overdone.The valleys gape like toothless age,Besnaggled by dead ...
Dead, All Dead! (Patience Worth Poems)
Dead, all dead! The earth, the fields, lie stretchedIn sleep like weary toilers overdone.The valleys gape like toothless age,Besnaggled by ...
Laughter (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold the cup. 'Tis a bitter quaff.Behold the grey monk-robe of the day.Behold men who let their eyes see naughtBut ...
The Key (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh what a golden staff is Thine!Muteness is the key to wisdom!Wisdom is learned by the tuning of this keyWithin ...
The Land Beyond The Stars (Patience Worth Poems)
Beyond the golden gateway of the West,Whose golden bars are tipped of stars,And where, beyond, there spreads a golden Land,And ...
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 ...
The Cleared Path (Patience Worth Poems)
Mine eyes are not afraid.I have lifted them unto heaven,And the light was mild,Aye, and comfort-dealing!I, no longer with that ...
My Tongue (Patience Worth Poems)
Mine is a cunning implement!There is nothing which mayDeny me wielding it,Yet I have an o'ercoming awe at the thought,That ...
Who Is He, Becowled (Patience Worth Poems)
Who is he, becowled,Most foreboding, seeking yon?Surely no companion of mine!He drones a dull page, and his utteranceCometh forth as ...
The Voice Of Day (Patience Worth Poems)
Dumb day, oh, tongueless day!Yet ever speaking; ye may not deny me,For mine eyes are open. Yea,I see not only ...
Memory (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh Fancy, take me backWhere the hills press the sky;Where the light comes slowlyO'er their soft curves,And the evening star ...
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 ...
A Sigh, Or A Smile? (Patience Worth Poems)
If I should sigh, and the day before me hear it,What magic would descend upon it?No light, no blithesome gayety, ...
To Dr. James Hyslop (Patience Worth Poems)
Through that vast vale, black, pitlike,Wouldst thou hold a taper?Wouldst thou lend thy hand to them who seek?Is that yearning ...
The Singer Of The Night (Patience Worth Poems)
Moonlight, filtering throughThe leafy boughs, descend!Paint white the shadows!Make silver the lines of darkness,Bringing forth the comforting shadesOf the familiar ...
Weary Not, O Brother! (Patience Worth Poems)
Weary not, O brother!'Tis apaled, the sun's gold sink;Then weary not, but set thy path to end;E'en as the light ...