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 ...
Patience Worth Poems on Stupidity (15 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 ...
Doubt (Patience Worth Poems)
Like to a thief who wrappeth himWithin the night-tide's robe,So standeth the specter o' the Earth;Yea, he doth robe him ...
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 ...
Brother, Weary O’ The Plod (Patience Worth Poems)
Brother, weary o' the plod,Art sorried sore o' waiting?Brother, bowed aneath the pack o' Earth,Art seeking o' the pathThat leadest ...
The Puppet Show (Patience Worth Poems)
Before the puppet show, which the curtain ofThe night discloses, I am musing.What strange parts Man, in his folly, chooseth!Each ...
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 ...
The Troubadour (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, I am a troubadourUpon a dun-grey path, singing,Singing, I know not why;For my song is not so new,Nor yet ...
Who Is He, Becowled (Patience Worth Poems)
Who is he, becowled,Most foreboding, seeking yon?Surely no companion of mine!He drones a dull page, and his utteranceCometh forth as ...
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 ...
Folly And Wisdom (Patience Worth Poems)
On a certain day of a certain spring,In a certain garden, youthed I stood,Filled of hope, with joy a-spurting.Oh, this ...
God’s Greatest Gift (Patience Worth Poems)
Great God, Thy greatest giftIs the full knowledge which comes to man-How oft, how oft belated!The knowledge that he be ...
Life And I Are Fellows (Patience Worth Poems)
Life and I are fellows;To me life is no stern companion,I cannot see his frown,I rub elbows with him.I know ...
He Is The Sun (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, my love, is the day dark?Behold then, He is the sun.Is thy day o'er bright?Behold then, He is the ...
Is Thy Day Dark? (Patience Worth Poems)
my love, is thy day dark? Behold then, He is the sun.Is thy day over bright? Then behold, He is ...