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 ...
Patience Worth Poems on Prayers (8 Poems)
If I Should Pray (Patience Worth Poems)
If I should pray, I thinkThat my prayer should be: "Let my handsNever learn the ending of their task."For if ...
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 ...
My Litany (Patience Worth Poems)
When the lilacs lie upon the rosy West, withThe hallowed sun o'erspread upon their plumes,And the swallow, circling swings unto ...
Spring, Thou Art But His Smile (Patience Worth Poems)
Spring, thou art but His smileOf happiness in me, and sullen daysOf weariness shall fall when Spring is bornIn winds ...
Awaiting The Captain’s Call (Patience Worth Poems)
God of heights! Behold me from Thy pinnacle,Thy son, unafraid! Oh, let the lightningOf Thy wrath play its havoc!I shall ...
Earth’s Garden Of Sorrow (Patience Worth Poems)
Gethsemane, Gethsemane, Gethsemane!Oh, Garden of Sorrow! Whose pathwaysKnew His tread and His sacred sorrow.Oh, that thy herbage might speak!That thy ...
On Prayer (Patience Worth Poems)
Prayer is pregnant of desire,As man uttereth it. To me,Prayer is a simple announcementOf companionship with God;An acknowledgement of my ...