Poems

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The Builders

Edwin Markham with contributions from Edward Everett

I dwell near a murmur of leaves,And my labor is sweeter than rest;For over my head in the shade of the eavesA throstle is building his nest.
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Lots of time for lots of things...

with contributions from Arthur Helps

Lots of time for lots of things,Though it's said that time has wings.

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Shared reflections

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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The Singing Shepherd

Annie Fields

The shepherd climbed the hill through dark and light;And on and on he went,Higher and higher still,Seeking a pasture hidden in the height.

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The Isles of Quiet

John Vance Cheney

The Isles of Quiet lie beyond the years,Hoar prophets say it; yet, for all the tears,I doubt the saying of the seers.
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If we all Did our Best

SAMUEL GREENWOOD

If we all did our best, my struggling brother,To be what God made us, for self and each other,What kindlier hearts and happier facesWould brighten the gloom of earth's desolate places!What healing of heartaches, of sorrow and sadness,What tides of good-will, what flowing of gladness,Would flood this old earth with the glory of heaven,If we all were but true to our nature God-given!
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Just Live Thy Life

James Lenno Stockton

Just live thy life.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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A Morning Petition

Anon

Lord God !
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Cradle Song

Anon

Rose and gold and blue of the skies,Face and curls and innocent eyes,Sleep, my little one, dream and drowse All the birds sit still in the boughs,The dark blue spaces with stars are sown —Sleep, my blessing, my love, my own,Sleep!
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"Whereas I was Blind, now I See"

Frances Bent Dillingham with contributions from St. Francis de Sales, Thomas A Kempis

I met him but once in half darkness,And how can I tell you, wise scribes,Of his beauty, his wisdom, his glory,Who would only answer with jibes?
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Lost Ideals

Adelaide A. Proctor

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife,Some pure ideal of a noble lifeThat once seemed possible?
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Song's Eternity

Edwin Markham

Into the song of the Poet are builded the things that endure : The Pillars of Karnak will crumble but the song of Shelley is sure.
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Life

Selected with contributions from Huntington Smith

There's nothing so easy as living, When we've learned the way to live;