Poems

Mary Baker Eddy

EARL MC CLOUD

No thought of self, no seeking after fame;No love of ease or wish for worldly gain;No goal so low! but, striving in His name,She wrought for us; nor thought her labor vain.

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Ascension

BEATRICE CLAYTON

Toward Bethany he led them, home of peace,Sweet human love, pure faith, and answered prayer.

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Progression

NELLE READ

This is the time of unfoldment;All earth heeds the summons of spring.

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Upon the Wave

MARY TRAMMELL SCOTT

Softly the new lightFalls upon sweet Galilee;Gently the true lightBrightens all the sea.

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Gratitude

LILLIAN BARKER DURKEE

Like birds that seek in grateful, loving trustSome belfry tower to rest their weary flight,My thoughts on memory's wings fly to the past,Upon its tower of love and truth alight;

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To a Friend

MINNY M. H. AYERS

How beautiful God's glories are!The blue, blue sky, the silv'ry star,Each budding flow'r, each spreading tree,Breathes of His love for you and me.

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The Shadow of the Almighty

Mary R. Becket

Within God's shadow there is peace eternal,Though, dreamlike, noises of the world go on:For where He is, there must be joy supernal,Which never passes to oblivion.

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God's Day

LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY

"There is no night but in God's frown;There is no day but in His smile.

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Duty

FANNIE LATIMER BAKER

Duty , little word thou art with letters four,So grim, forbidding, yet full of life's best lore.

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"Be still, and know"

ADELAIDE B. H. MATHEY

Beautiful bird, so care-free and joyous,Up in the topmost bough—full-throated, glad,God's humble messenger, type of true freedomThat lifts the weary, the sick, and the sad,