Poems

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;

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"Thy Will Be Done"

E. Alfred Coil

"Thy will be done," I read one careless day, And thought, if thus I pray a slave I' ll be;

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In the Book our Mother Read

Whittier

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From graven stone and written scroll, From all the flower-fields of the soul: And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mother read.