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Book: Motes In The Sun

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  • Angels
    Came of old to houses lonely
    Men with wings, but did not show them:
    4 lines
  • The Father's Worshippers
    'Tis we, not in thine arms, who weep and pray;
    The children in thy bosom laugh and play.
    2 lines
  • A Birth-Day Wish
    Who know thee, love: thy life be such
    That, ere the year be o'er,
    4 lines
  • Dejection
    O Father, I am in the dark,
    My soul is heavy-bowed:
    16 lines
  • To Any One
    Go not forth to call Dame Sorrow
    From the dim fields of Tomorrow;
    6 lines
  • Eine Kleine Predigt
    Graut Euch nicht, Ihr lieben Leute,
    Vor dem ungeheuren Morgen;
    4 lines
  • Waiting
    Lie, little cow, and chew thy cud,
    The farmer soon will shift thy tether;
    6 lines
  • Triolet
    Oh that men would praise the Lord
    For his goodness unto men!
    8 lines
  • Lost But Safe
    Lost the little one roams about,
    Pathway or shelter none can find;
    8 lines
  • Hope Deferred
    "Where is thy crown, O tree of Love?
    Flowers only bears thy root!
    8 lines
  • Much and More
    When thy heart, love-filled, grows graver,
    And eternal bliss looks nearer,
    8 lines
  • To My God
    Oh how oft I wake and find
    I have been forgetting thee!
    4 lines
  • Hope and Patience
    An unborn bird lies crumpled and curled,
    A-dreaming of the world.
    6 lines
  • The Word of God
    Where the bud has never blown
    Who for scent is debtor?
    8 lines
  • A Better Thing
    I took it for a bird of prey that soared
    High over ocean, battled mount, and plain;
    8 lines
  • To The Life Eternal
    Thou art my thought, my heart, my being's fortune,
    The search for thee my growth's first conscious date;
    4 lines
  • A Prisoner
    The hinges are so rusty
    The door is fixed and fast;
    8 lines
  • Forgiveness
    God gives his child upon his slate a sum--
    To find eternity in hours and years;
    6 lines
  • To My Lord and Master
    Imagination cannot rise above thee;
    Near and afar I see thee, and I love thee;
    4 lines
  • Appeal
    If in my arms I bore my child,
    Would he cry out for fear
    12 lines
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