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 (285 Poems)
God’s Answering Silence (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would seek my God and know Him;When I would feel my God and see Him; when IWould list ...
How Have I Caught At Fleeting Joys (Patience Worth Poems)
How have I caught at fleeting joys,And swifter fleeting sorrows, and days and nights,And morns and eves, and seasons too,Aslipping ...
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 ...
A God Of Wrath? (Patience Worth Poems)
Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the lightnings!Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the thunders!Fearful, fearful! Oh, God of the tempest!Fearful, fearful! ...
The White River (Patience Worth Poems)
Who is he who leadeth legionsIn glittering array, while the cloudsAre tipped in living lightning,And the sky overlaced with its ...
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 ...
The Fields Of God (Patience Worth Poems)
I have been within the fieldAt the young morning, when the thrushTore ope the brushy way, marking her flightWith the ...
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 ...
All Silver-Laced With Web (Patience Worth Poems)
All silver-laced with web and crystal-studded,Hangs a golden lily cup,As airy as a dancing sprite.The moon hath caught a fleeting ...
The Inheritance Of Ages (Patience Worth Poems)
Strange, is it not, beloved, that even as I lay my cheek to thine,Even as my eyes behold thine, even ...
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 ...
Phantoms Of The Cool Sands (Patience Worth Poems)
When the sands grow cool, and the lazy tideSwings heavy 'gainst the shore,Leaning its waves in languorous easeTo the curve ...
The Hastening Earth (Patience Worth Poems)
What is this urge, this hastening,This lashing something which besets all creation?I watch the moving clouds making their wayIn haste ...
Comparing Fancies (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, what is my fancy most like unto?At times, like a little boat, which floatsSome willowed stream, soft in shades,And ...
Lullaby (Patience Worth Poems)
Strum, strum!Ah, wee one,Croon unto the tendril tipped with sungilt,Nodding thee from o'er the doorsill there.Strum, strum!My wheel shall sing ...
Philomel (Patience Worth Poems)
Lapping thy grey wingUpon the purple evening sky,Oh Philomel, oh Philomel!Winding thy song on a shuttle of woodbine,Oh Philomel, oh ...
Thine Own Song (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would sing, thou hast struck me dumb.When I would make a glorious noise,My lute respondeth not.Oh, e'en the ...
Ah, Greet The Day (Patience Worth Poems)
Ah, greet the day, which, like a golden butterfly,Hovereth 'twixt the night and morn;And welcome her fullness-the hours 'mid shadowAnd ...
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 ...
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 Heart’s Morning (Patience Worth Poems)
Be still, my heart! Make not a noiseThat shall claim me.I would not listen unto thy sorrowing.I would not know ...
I Know That God Is (Patience Worth Poems)
There is nothing in all the preachmentsOf man which either stimulatesOr confounds me. I have known,Since first my soul beheld ...
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 ...
Wasted Treasures (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, I once had a smile, and it flickeredAnd flashed o'er my shadowy way.But I needed it not, and I ...