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 Speaking (17 Poems)
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 Phantom’s Touch (Patience Worth Poems)
I recall a touch, which frequently fell upon me,A chilling touch as though the shroudOf Eternity had swept me.Well I ...
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 ...
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 ...
Behold, With My Naked Hands (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, with my naked hands did I part my ribs,Baring my heart in a basin of scarlet.Into this did I ...
Piper Of The Past (Patience Worth Poems)
I sit beside the sweeping waters,Letting fancy free, and throughThe vast realms of Time comes to meA far-off cry, wailing ...
King And Brother (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold Him, ascended unto His kingship!Behold Him exalted unto the skies!Speak, what seest thou?Make thy words declare Him as He ...
The Voice Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
Wondrous God whom I would know;How long have I wondered what musicMight be fitting to denote Thy voice.Would it sound ...
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 ...
Eternity (Patience Worth Poems)
Beyond me stretcheth that silver sand,Marked not by e'en one waving palm or plume.Beyond me, tracklessly, spreadethThe glittering field, trod ...
Mercy (Patience Worth Poems)
Mercy tuneth the harp of life!Else it could not strum.Mercy is the sofest gemWithin life's diadem, a white pearl,Palely glowing, ...
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 ...
Grace Of Gentleness (Patience Worth Poems)
No thing engraces the day like gentleness.I may see gaudy noons and flaming morningsAnd gorgeous eves, but none of theseAppeal ...
Soundless Voices (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, art thou listening, brother?Then speak, what hearest thou?Hast heard the mocking of the insistent life,Which is telling itself to ...
Speak Ye A True Tongue? (Patience Worth Poems)
Speak ye a true tongue,Or waste ye with words the Soul's song?A damning evidence is with wasted words;For need I ...
My Hand (Patience Worth Poems)
My hand, behold it-God's implement!The Master speaks, and it labours, followingNo pattern, but groping through the darkness-Uncertainly creating certainties!My hand, ...