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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wise Man Or Fool? (Patience Worth Poems)

While earth passeth me, I stand apartWithin my tabernacle withdrawn,Letting the dizzy day speed past,While like a mise-man I lay ...

Toleration (Patience Worth Poems)

Oh, ye who gaze with tolerant meinUpon the song I sing, as tolerantlyI smile with understanding-At thy understanding!No music would ...

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 ...

My Dull Brother (Patience Worth Poems)

You, my brother, you, whose dull eyesLook forth unto dull days, whose hours make progressLike unto a procession of cowled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Listening (Patience Worth Poems)

I shall lend mine ear, Lord, listening.No confusion of the day shall appall me,Neither the awesome expanse of night.I shall ...

My Love-Necklace (Patience Worth Poems)

My love is a necklet of pence.Each day I add a disc. If IBe spending mine hours for the worth ...

Beyond The Gates (Patience Worth Poems)

Beyond that celestial gateway, Oh, tell me,Doth there stray no thing but hath reachedPerfection's Realm? Oh, let me treasureWithin my ...

Man’s Presumption (Patience Worth Poems)

Oh, man's presumption! It maketh me to smile-Tolerantly, for I am acquaintedWith the mysteries of God.Man moutheth over words,And hangeth ...

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. ...

My Abode (Patience Worth Poems)

Where do I abide?Ask me this, oh man, and I answer,Within the pit of thy heart;Within all things that possess ...

The Key (Patience Worth Poems)

Oh what a golden staff is Thine!Muteness is the key to wisdom!Wisdom is learned by the tuning of this keyWithin ...

This Is Wisdom (Patience Worth Poems)

"This is Wisdom," sayeth man,And a certain one presenteth a quillAnd tickleth a page."Aha, this is wisdom," sayeth he."This is ...

Wisdom’s Rude Lover (Patience Worth Poems)

Gently, brother, gently. Have reverence!Remember, wisdom is an aged thing.Be not flippant; be not pertly jestful.Gently, brother, gently. Remember, the ...