Poems

HOME

Elizabeth M. Platte

How perfect is the home we have!Mind builds it first in consciousness;Reveals it now through pure ideasOf harmony and righteousness.

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HEALING AT A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE

Bertha E. Decker

Athirst for healing Truth and Love,I listened to the speaker's wordsOf God's all-power, unfailing law,His tender, ever-loving careThat reaches out, enfolding all.

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THE COMFORTER

Harriette Meldrim Lake

Then dance, my heart, and turn away from tears;The Comforter with love has set me free.

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DOUBT DISSOLVED

Pearl Strachan Hurd

"Three in One"—the mystic sign:"Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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LOVE EXPRESSED

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

It isn't the lovein the motto or creed.

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"FEED MY SHEEP"

Una Lias

"Feed my lambs," the Master said.

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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.

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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?

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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.