Category: Religion/Spirituality
The compiler of this book is not a spiritualist, nor a psychologist, nor a member of the Society for Psychical Research; nor has he ever had anything more than a transitory and skeptical interest in psychic phenomena of any character. He is a newspaper man whose privilege and...
Very soon after the completion of this story Patience began another one, a Christmas story, a weird, mystical tale of medieval England, having for its central theme a “Stranger”...
8. Part 8“And then ’twer that Truth did seek o’ Earth, and she wert clad o’ naught, and seeked the man, and begged that he would cast the cloak and clothe o’ her therein. And lo, he did...
7. Part 7“Within the chamber, Ermaline did hide her face in dreading to behold him come, but at the door he spied the dear and bounded like a puppy ’cross the flags, apelting her with bl...
9. Part 9_Patience._—“Ayea. And thou hast o’ me the loaf o’ the me o’ me, and thou hast o’ it afar more than thou hast o’ thy brother o’ earth, and yet they seek o’ me and seek ever.”
2. Part 2All silver-laced with web and crystal-studded, hangs A golden lily cup, as airy as a dancing sprite. The moon hath caught a fleeting cloud, and rests in her embrace. The bumblef...
5. Part 5Of Earth there be this store of joys and woes. Yea, and they do make the days o’ me. I sit me here adream that did I hold From out the whole, but one, my dearest gift, What then...
3. Part 3And yet again: “Fields hath she trod arugged, aye, and weed agrown. Aye, and e’en now, where she hath set abloom the blossoms o’ her very soul, weed aspringeth. And lo, she stan...
1. Part 1The compiler of this book is not a spiritualist, nor a psychologist, nor a member of the Society for Psychical Research; nor has he ever had anything more than a transitory and...
10. Part 10“’Tis a merry I be. Lo, have I not fetched forth unto a day that holdeth little o’ the blood o’ me, that I might deal alike unto my brother and bring forth word that be ahungere...
12. Part 12I have said that the message of Patience Worth contained a revelation, a religion and a promise. The revelation is too obvious to need a pointer. In the preceding chapter were p...
11. Part 11Speak ye a true tongue, Or waste ye with words the Soul’s song? A damning evidence is with wasted words; For need I prate to yonder star When hunger fills the world wherein I dw...
4. Part 4Thou, thou hast broke the spell, And dream hath heard thy word and fled. Yea, sunk, sunk upon the path, They o’ my dreams—slain, slain, And dead with but thy word. Ah, leave me...
13. Part 13Sarcasm, 49 Scottish, 60 Seed, 224, 225 Seeds. _See_ Mite and the Seeds Self, 221, 222 Shakespeare, 57, 77, 104 Shelley, 90, 105 Simplicity, 104, 105 Sittings, character, 18, 35...