Poems

Love's Shining

SVEA BROOKER

As a flower its perfume sheds for all,So let thy love in blessed radiance fall,To cheer a heart bowed down with grief and care;"Let thy light shine,"—this is unceasing prayer.

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The Messenger

INEZ CAMPBELL

On a bare gray bough as gray as my heart,A little bird did sing.

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The Dawn of Truth

DAISY D. STEPHENSON

AFTER the groping in darkness,The radiant light from above;After the fear and the doubting,The glory of infinite Love.

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I Thank Thee

JOHN HOWARD RUSSELL

I THANK Thee, Father-Mother God; I know Thou always hearest me.

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A Prayer

NETTIE ORCENA WOLFLEY

Dear Father, tend the garden of my thoughts,Thy dearest care,And uproot every weed and flower Thou hastNot planted there.

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The Awakening

BELLE BARTRAM

When in an early morning hourI gazed across the sky,Reflected there I saw the powerOf Him who reigns on high.

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Heritage

ETTA LAMBERT-KNIGHT

Hail , son of God! I know thee as thou art;No faltering step, nor raiment mean and worn,No empty earth-bound dreams which fear impartCan veil the heritage to which thou 'rt born.