The Sustaining Hand
Hope and MotivationTHE SUSTAINING HAND
2551
The little child win wakes at night
Affrighted at the somber gloom,
And clamors for a ray of light
To drive the darkness from the room,
To quiet dreamland sweetly goes,
Contented if a hand is near,
Caressingly,…
The Ship That Never Returned
Hope and MotivationThe Ship that Never Returned
18010
On a summer's day, when the waves were rippled
By n soft and gentle breeze,
A ship set sall with a cargo laden
For port beyond the a sens
There were fond farewells,
There were loving amiles,
While their…
Marguerite
Hope and MotivationMarguerite
5606
Marguerite! Marguerite! my star of hope
I dread the day you'll forget me, Marguerite!
And still I know it soon will come,
The festive dance, the rich, the gay,
So different from our home, Marguerite!
I would not chide thee,…
When My Ship Comes In
Hope and MotivationWhen My Ship Comes In
1592
To Lyell
I have launched you my craft, and the
wind and the tide
Are drifting you outward to sea:
But the ocean is round and the farther you ride
The nearer you're coming to me
It is true I am lonely when dagdawn…
Land Of The Leaf
Hope and MotivationLand of the Leal
1705
Where are the greenest fields and where
The sweetest winds that ever blow,
And where has Hope excluded Care
Wherever I may be with you
Where is the fair and sacred land
That holds my loyalty in fee?
Where I may lead…
Reassured
Hope and MotivationREASSURED
3901
In days of good King Theodore strange things did come to pass
For puissant senators grow mild, like little boys at class;
And at King Theodore's command would leap head first through rings,
Sit up and beg play dead, and do…
Salvation
Hope and MotivationSalvation
-Writter Bynner
14
They woke me Sunday, and I looked
Out of my bed to see;
And then the way I felt rebuked
Suggested this to me:
Even the crudest curbstone prayer,
That rouses hearts anew,
Is nearer to the crystal stair
Than many…
The Wants Of Man
Hope and MotivationThe Wants of Man
5922
"Man wants but little here
Nor wants that little long"
'Tis not with me exactly so,
But 'ds so in the song
My wants are many, and if told
Would muster many a secre;
And were each wish a mint of gold
I still should…
The Muck-Raker
Hope and MotivationTHE MUCK-RAKER
4686
He sang of the glory of cities,
Of pillar and spire and mart;
Of domes unreared and of God stiil feared,
Of good in the human heart
He sang of the hopes, uplifting,
Of duty made clear and clear,
But they called him…
The Passing Of An Auto-Crat
Hope and MotivationThe Auto-crat-oh, think of that!-he went a fearful pace;
He did not smile, through all the wholehe had a mobile face
He took no interest in man, yet sought the human race
The Auto-crat-oh, think of that!-I never saw him laugh;
In wreckage…
Shells Of Ocean
Hope and MotivationShells of Ocean
2566
One summer eve, with pensive thoughts,
I wandered on the sea-best shore,
Where oft in heedless infant sport
I gathered shells in days before
The splashing waves like music fell
Responsive to my fancy wild:
A dream…
Nobody To Blame But Yourself
Hope and MotivationNOBODY TO BLAME BUT YOURSELF
4632
You married a maiden you thought to be rich,
And found that she hadn't a dime,
And, yoked to a flighty extravagant shrew,
You bewail your sad lot all the time
You dream of a girl who was pure as a pearl,
And…
Waiting For The Prince
Hope and MotivationWaiting for the Prince
1332
Happy maiden in whose eres
Beams the sunny light of youth,
In whose soul a glory lles
Tremulous with love and truth;
Musing of the days to come,
Full of visionary glints,
Through her mind sweet fancies run,…
Boy May Be Found With Song
Hope and MotivationBoy May Be Found with Song
2172
,
A song, may
find a lost boy A song may accomplish
what a heart broken father and hundreds
of friends have falled to do The simple
words of "The Lost Child" sung in a sweet
voice may fall upon the ear…
To Thine Own Self Be True
Hope and MotivationTo Thine Own Self Be True
Pakenham Beatty
3782
Pakenham Beatty was born in 1855
He has written several volumes-"To My Lady" 1878: "Three Women of the People 1881 and "Marcia a Tragedy" 1884
By thine own soul's law learn to live And if men thwart…
Left Undone
Hope and MotivationLeft Undone
Margaret E Sangster
2024
It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you've left undone
Which gives you a bit of a heartache
At the setting of the sun
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower…
Unanswered Yet?
Hope and MotivationUnanswered Yet?
4573
Unanswered yet? The prayer your Hpe have pleaded
In agony of heart these many years?
Does faith begin to full? is hope departing?
And think you in vain all those falling tears
Say not the Father hath not heard your prayer!…
The Chariots Of The Gods
Hope and MotivationThe Chariots Of The Gods
By Charles K Field
585
O Lares and Penates,
Ye household gods we prize,
Who smile on family parties
And weep o'er broken ties;
Now pour we due libation
And gratefully admire
The homely transportation
That saved…
All Hallow Eve
Hope and MotivationAll Hallow Eve
2444
Within the house the hearth-fire's crackling blaze
Lights up with ruddy glare the an cient room,
And chisels fresh with its quick- darting rays
The oaken flowers that on the pan- els bloom
Then flickers o'er a troop of…
The Girl I Left Behind
Hope and MotivationThe Girl I Left Behind
230-5
I'm lonescme since I crossed the hills and o'er the moor that's sedgy
With heavy thoughts iny mind is filled since I have parted with Peggy:
Whene' I turn to view the place the tears doth fall and blind me
When…