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Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar


A Prayer


  O Lord, the hard-won miles
    Have worn my stumbling feet:
  Oh, soothe me with thy smiles,
    And make my life complete.

  The thorns were thick and keen
    Where'er I trembling trod;
  The way was long between
    My wounded feet and God.

  Where healing waters flow
    Do thou my footsteps lead.
  My heart is aching so;
    Thy gracious balm I need.



Paul Laurence Dunbar


Paul Laurence Dunbar's other poems:
  1. Song (My heart to thy heart)
  2. The Lawyers' Ways
  3. Ere Sleep Comes down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
  4. Not They Who Soar
  5. Passion and Love


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Dante Rossetti A Prayer ("LADY, in thy proud eyes")
  • Anne Brontë A Prayer ("My God (oh, let me call Thee mine")
  • Alfred Douglas A Prayer ("Often the western wind has sung to me")
  • Christian Milne A Prayer ("O Thou great POWER! who deign'd to form")
  • Emily Dickinson A Prayer ("I meant to have but modest needs")
  • Norman Gale A Prayer ("TEND me my birds, and bring again")
  • James Joyce A Prayer ("Again!") Paris, 1924
  • Amy Levy A Prayer ("Since that I may not have")
  • Edward Sill A Prayer ("O GOD, our Father, if we had but truth!")
  • Claude McKay A Prayer ("’Mid the discordant noises of the day I hear thee calling")
  • John Stagg A Prayer ("Hail, mighty Father! God of all!")
  • Ada Cambridge (Cross) A Prayer ("Spirit and Breath of Life, whate'er Thy name!")
  • Albert Watson A Prayer ("O THOU whose finger-tips")

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