Poems

Humility

BUENA V. FREEMANN

Dear Father-Mother God,I come to Thee;I lay my all upon the altar.

Behold, I Stand at the Door

ALMA G. V. HARRISON

Dear Christ, I heard thee knocking,As with sorrow and pain I strove;I knew that thou wert waiting,With outstretched hand of love.

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Turn Thou to God

F. INA BURGESS

Does grief surround,And press its aching weight upon thy breast?

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Let Me Awake

ROBIN A. WALKER

When night has spent its seeming spellAnd songbirds rise their joy to tell,When crimson dawn the chill mist breaks;My thought awakes!

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The Fields Are White

GWEN M. CASTLE

The fields are white to harvest, Jesus said,But those who labor in them, few indeed.

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The Seeing Eye

HELEN MAR BROWN

Though dark may seem the way and long,Though doubt and fear oppress, the sighOf woe might find a way to song,Could we but have a seeing eye

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Love Never Faileth

OLGA B. OGANJANOFF

There is no burdenLove cannot bear,There is no sorrowLove will not share;There is no darkness,No doubt or despair,No height nor depth,But Love is there.

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Awakening

ELEANOR M. WATSON

There dawns upon my vision bright,The city which lies foursquare,Where gloom and cloud mar not the light,And there is no night there.

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No Night There

EVELYN RING

Thou need'st not fear the shadows of the night,For soon, to prove their nothingness, the dawnThat comes to banish silent gloom with lightFinds night unreal—its seeming selfhood gone.