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Poems

PRAYER FOR A JOURNEY

Elisabeth H. Tolman

Dear Father, as I journey toward EmmausI pray no mortal seeming cloud my eye,Lest—willful, heedless—I should meet my brotherAnd, seeing not Love's image, pass Christ by.

BARS OF SENSE

Hallie Dupree Shipman

In the deep and throbbing stillness of the night, when sleepDeserts me, I ask,How should I feel if I were imprisoned and if no one cared?

PAUL

Winthrop Pitt Tryon

Foreign thingsMet rebuffOn Mars' Hill,When an orator errant,With Roman warrant,In accent odd—Touch of Cilician—Harangued the populace,Hard by the Acropolis,Whose vestureShone,Pediment and portal,In beauty mortal.

HE CANNOT ESCAPE LOVE

Grace Nixon Stecher

Should your brother choose to strayBy the valley road,Walk with him a little way,Ease him of his load.

MY SON

Hazel A. Wood

"Son , come home.

LOVE YOUR ENEMIES

Isla Paschal Richardson

"Pray for them which.

REALIGNMENT

Benjamin Sturgis Pray

Forgo all preaching perched aloofIn Pharisaic isolation.

SEARCHING MY TEXTBOOKS

Oma Olna Martin

Searching my textbooks I findMan's home is in immortal Mind,Where wisdom reigns and God is All.

NOW

Emil William Frandsen

Eternal now,Fact profound!No future, past,Nor time-lost ground.

DEDICATION

Jacoba Pfeil

Take Thou, dear Lord, my heart into Thy keeping,All pure and holy, with Thy spirit filled;Help that no thought may ever enter,Untrue, self-willed.

TREMBLING SHE SPOKE

Myrtle Daugherty

Trembling she spoke.

CONSCIOUSNESS

Edith Gaddis Brewer

I would go alone and findWhat is granted to the mindTo partake of and to give,Without audience to live.