John Lancaster Spalding

Poems (4)

• Believe and Take Heart

  What can console for a dead world? / We tread on dust which once was life; …

• Forepledged

  O woman, let thy heart not cleave / To any poet’s soul; …

• From "God and the Soul"

  Nature and THE CHILD / FOR many blessings I to God upraise …

• The Starry Host

  The countless stars, which to our human eye / Are fixed and steadfast, each in proper place, …