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 Man (78 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 ...
Immortality (Patience Worth Poems)
Upon yesterday's lotus the dew pearledAnd vanished with the sun.On a certain morning e'er the winter ceased,Lo, did the songsters ...
The Day’s Work (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, behold the roadways,Lying stretched in grey dust-patternsAbout the fields, curving the hillocksLike necklets of ash. And the creepingPageantry of ...
A Prayer (Patience Worth Poems)
Lend to my lips, O Lord, a key,With which to unlock the hearts of men.Make my word become no less ...
Wise Man Or Fool? (Patience Worth Poems)
While earth passeth me, I stand apartWithin my tabernacle withdrawn,Letting the dizzy day speed past,While like a mise-man I lay ...
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 ...
My Song For Thee (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, how do I to buildMe up my song for thee?Yea, and tell unto thee of Him.I'd shew unto thee ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Beggar Am I (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, a beggar am I. The skyO'er my head and the vast spreading fieldsAll are mine. No path that doth leadO'er the ...
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 Crystal Cup (Patience Worth Poems)
Give me no trumpet!Oh, let me declare myself-not holy,But Godlike, for He is beyond the holiest.Let me make bare before ...
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 Playfellow (Patience Worth Poems)
I remember thee in my youth, when our handsWere still soft and dimpled, and the contact of them;And the bright ...
The Little Green Bird (Patience Worth Poems)
At the skirt of a rose-embowered path,Just a little apart from the village,Where the woods meet the meadows,And briars blush ...
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 Cross Upon The Path (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, you may not pass, you, upon the path-You may not pass!Oh, by the green fields you may stray,Or by ...
To Know Thee, To Know Thee! (Patience Worth Poems)
To know thee. To know thee. To know thee!To become comrade with thy day,Then I should know the agony of ...
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 ...
My Abode (Patience Worth Poems)
Where do I abide?Ask me this, oh man, and I answer,Within the pit of thy heart;Within all things that possess ...
Behold, I Would Speak Not In Command (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, I would speak not in command,For unto youth, command is like a lash,And youth may not run beneath a ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Truth (Patience Worth Poems)
How may I know truth? Oh my beloved,I would answer thee. Truth is companionable,She is never a lady who sighs ...
This Is Wisdom (Patience Worth Poems)
"This is Wisdom," sayeth man,And a certain one presenteth a quillAnd tickleth a page."Aha, this is wisdom," sayeth he."This is ...