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 Time (22 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 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 ...
Spirit And Flesh (Patience Worth Poems)
Christ! Man! Dusts!Yet upon the day that He hath spokenHangeth the hope of eons that proceed!Christ! Man! Flesh!The mouthing of ...
At The Tomb Of Rameses (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold mould, that substance,Which is the blossom of time,That inheritance, that surety,Which all men become heir unto.Behold mould, a whit ...
The Music Of The Sea (Patience Worth Poems)
Sing, sing, oh sea!Sing thy hush-song to the shores.Sing, sing, sing, oh seatLift thy waves as emerald tongues,Singing golden songs ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Patience Worth Poems)
I am a bridge between Tomorrow and Yesterday,Yea, I am Today. Yesterday might not beWithout my coming, and TomorrowI shall ...
The Sign Disdained (Patience Worth Poems)
To decay, to become mould, dank mould,Green-lipped, festered; to become dust-To be thwarted asunder by the hand of time-To be ...
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 ...
The Pageant Of Life (Patience Worth Poems)
Like a pageant they pass-groups of toilersWith their sweat, their aching joints,Their weary backs, their dim eyesDownward bended with their ...
Let My Words Be Soothing (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, that my words become sylvan! Yea, shadowedA retreat from the glamour of the day.Make them stream of sunlight, but ...
The Kindergartner (Patience Worth Poems)
And my hands are laboring with play.Lo, I am cunningly masking labor with theVeil of gaming, letting youth be folliedIn ...
God, Man Made (Patience Worth Poems)
So this is God, this puppet, this figure,This little pagan idol,Man's words have fashioned him out!He resides not save within ...
The Sphinx (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, with empty socketsStaring o'er the desert's way;Mutely countenancing the tragediesOf ages; crawled o'er as by gnats,By tribes that in ...
Eternal Troths (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, you lovers of all time!Who have pledged, trothed, parted,Sworn, bled, died!Oh, you lovers of all time!Yon is the spot!Yon, ...
The Voice Of All Things (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, God is an Urn,And all that He hath createdGive forth from their throats.Behold, even the buds burst and spillTheir ...
Mother Earth (Patience Worth Poems)
Earth, thou ancient cradle, rocking Creation!Earth, old mother of man, man whose lipsHave pressed thy breast since Time.Earth, reproachless, ope-armed ...
A Patience Worth Blessing (Patience Worth Poems)
This hour, this hour, a chalice. Unto its golden cupWe have poured our love, for there be not one manWho ...
Time, The Goose (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, I can jest with Time-The goose which I pluck, each day a feather,Which I lightly blow upon eternity-Hoping it ...