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 ...
Patience Worth Poems on Sleep (9 Poems)
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 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 ...
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 ...
How Shall I Die? (Patience Worth Poems)
How shall I die?Shall I lay me down upon a rosed couch-Sipping cool waters, and languorously die?Shall I do some ...
Twilight (Patience Worth Poems)
Twilight. Long shadows stretchTheir stealthy fingers wood-ward.Soft tolls the bell which marks the vesper hour.Mist-veiled, the hillocks liftTheir heads 'gainst ...
A Lullaby (Patience Worth Poems)
Dream, dream, thou flesh of me,Dream thou next my breast.Dream, dream, and coax the starsTo light thee at thy rest.Sleep, ...
Child’s Prayer (Patience Worth Poems)
I, Thy child forever, playAbout Thy knees this close of day.Within Thy arms I now shall creep,And learn Thy wisdom ...