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 Soul (42 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Death (Patience Worth Poems)
Who art thou,Who tracketh 'pon the path o' me-O' each turn, aye, and track?Thou! And thou astand!And o'er thy face ...
Who Art Thou, Who Tracketh ‘Pon The Path O’ Me? (Patience Worth Poems)
Who art thou,Who tracketh 'pon the path o' meO' each turn, aye, and track?Thou! And thou astand!And o'er thy face ...
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 ...
The Signal Of The Stars (Patience Worth Poems)
I saw the heavy moon come slowInto the night, and felt upon this cheekThe eve's breath, hung of daytide's woes.The ...
A Harp And A Necklace (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, the valley!The harp, suspended betwixt the mountains,Murmuring the music of EarthTo the great breasts whereon the sky is pillowed.Lo, ...
The Ancient Pharisee (Patience Worth Poems)
What will the new day findThat comes some ages hence?Undecipherable scripts!That were the scribing of thy hand;Wisdoms that are rusted ...
The Garden Of Youth (Patience Worth Poems)
From the depths of a garden,Where scents of heliotrope linger,And little golden-dusted blossoms nod,Where the shadows writeTheir merriment upon the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Silver Harp (Patience Worth Poems)
My soul is a silver harp,Whose strings are as tenuous as moonbeams,Whose notes are iridescent, like rainbowsOr prisms-glinting, liveWith souls ...
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. ...
An Eve Of Yore (Patience Worth Poems)
I remember, sae surely, sae surely,A certain eve in the greying season,When the hawthorns stood bare, their branchesShaking in their ...
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 ...
My Wandering Thoughts (Patience Worth Poems)
My thoughts are yon, while I disconsolate,Make way upon the dusty road,Following with dull incident, followingThe brilliant flash which precedes ...
Faithful Under The Smite (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, mighty God, with faltering lipsWould I proclaim Thy magnitude.Ever have I beheld Thee where man denied Thee.I with mine ...
The Beyond (Patience Worth Poems)
Out of the gray day,Out from the hungry hours, fare I forth,Making pilgrimage to that pale, phantom land,Wherein I may ...
Personality I (Patience Worth Poems)
Each man is an urn, and the wine within itContaineth his soul. Yea, and he poureth it outFreely, or with ...
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 ...
Ye Shall Bud And Bloom (Patience Worth Poems)
Lord, I have uplifted my lute,And struck a chord,But the earth, the earth was unmindful.The music of my lay becameA ...
Devotion (Patience Worth Poems)
What is the bond, the shackle, yea,The armlet which binds thee to thy love?No mighty hand may shatter it;No tongue ...
The Evidence Of Him (Patience Worth Poems)
I see no awe in the awfulness of God.Death is but an instant-And the riddle solved!Life is but an instant ...
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 ...