Category: Poetry
[The dedication refers to the fact that the book was originally published using only the right-hand side pages of the book, leaving the left-hand side blank to allow for and acknowledge any thoughtful reader responses.]
[The dedication refers to the fact that the book was originally published using only the right-hand side pages of the book, leaving the left-hand side blank to allow for and ack...
5. Chapter 5The enemy still hath many things in me; Yea, many an evil nest with open hole Gapes out to him, at which he enters free. But, like the impact of a burning coal, His presence mer...
4. Chapter 4In such God-silence, the soul's nest, so long As all is still, no flutter and no song, Is safe. But if my soul begin to act Without some waking to the eternal fact That my dear...
2. Chapter 2Be with me, Lord. Keep me beyond all prayers: For more than all my prayers my need of thee, And thou beyond all need, all unknown cares; What the heart's dear imagination dares,...
3. Chapter 3Afresh I seek thee. Lead me--once more I pray-- Even should it be against my will, thy way. Let me not feel thee foreign any hour, Or shrink from thee as an estranged power. Thr...
6. Chapter 6I said to myself, "Lo, I lie in a dream Of separation, where there comes no sign; My waking life is hid with Christ in God, Where all is true and potent--fact divine." I will no...