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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. Ere Sleep Comes down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
  2. The Lawyers' Ways
  3. An Ante-Bellum Sermon
  4. Not They Who Soar
  5. Song (My heart to thy heart)


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")
  • 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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