Poems

My Prayer

John G. Whittier

If there be some weaker one,Give me strength to help him on;If a blinder soul there be,Let me guide him nearer Thee.

To Myself

The following poem was written by Paul Fleming in 1600.

He who hath led, will leadAll through the wilderness;He who hath fed, will feed;He who hath blessed, will bless;He who hath heard thy cry,Will never close His ear;He who hath marked thy faintest sighWill not forget thy tear.

Poem

How far to Heaven?

Angelus Silesius

How far from here to Heaven?

Poem

April

BY JULIA MICHAEL.

A little crocus bud lifted its headUp from a bed of brown,And the sun smiled through from a bit of blueAnd shone on its yellow gown.

Poem

A Flower Legend

BY M. A. G

When he whose sinless spirit hasFor centuries been our guide and way,Compassed by stern and cruel foes,Was being forced up the dread hillOf suffering and shameful death,Weary and fainting 'neath the burdenOf the heavy cross on which he was to yieldIn agony, his stainless life,—'Tis said, that in his stepsThere bloomed a sudden wonder:—A snowy flower, that mortal eyeTill then, had never seen.

Poem

Glad Easter Day!

BY E. F. V.

O Easter day! Glad Easter day!I come to thee my vows to pay.

Poem

To Health

Sarah Louise Morris

Life's most essential friend, I drink to theeAnd thy advancement in this o'er-frail world,Thy laws thou dost not veil in mystery;'Tis we, ourselves.

Poem

Easter Day

LETITIA VERTREES PULLMAN.

"Awake ! put on thy strength, O Zion!" for Easter Day has come;The new-born earth from bondage loosed, no longer blind and dumb,Has seen the brightness of the glory of the risen Star,And on this happy morn, across the eastern sky, the barOf coming light illumines man, and lifts desireTo holier thoughts and deeds, and song caught from celestialchoir.