Poems That Touch the Heart

by ALEXANDER, A.L.

• ISBN13: 9780385044011
• ISBN10: 0385044011
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1984-10-15
• Publisher: Doubleday

Summary

With over 650,000 copies in print,Poems That Touch The Heartis America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.

Table of Contents

Preface to New, Enlarged Edition	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxiii
Around the Corner	p. 1
Success	p. 2
Why Do I Love You?	p. 3
The Dark Candle	p. 5
A Friend	p. 6
What Is Youth?	p. 7
Should You Go First	p. 8
The Tone of Voice	p. 10
Treasures	p. 11
Tell Her So	p. 12
Happiness	p. 13
Goodnight (For Husbands and Wives)	p. 14
The Little Chap Who Follows Me	p. 15
How Do I Love Thee?	p. 16
The Story of Life	p. 17
Alabaster Boxes	p. 18
The Touch of the Master's Hand	p. 19
On Children	p. 20
The Bar	p. 21
Your House	p. 22
The Happiest Season	p. 23
Instructions of King Cormac	p. 23
At Set of Sun	p. 24
A Prayer Found in Chester Cathedral	p. 25
The Sculptor	p. 26
Dream House	p. 27
The World Needs	p. 28
Wide Walls	p. 28
Miss You	p. 29
The Meaning of a Letter	p. 30
Bankrupt	p. 31
A Bag of Tools	p. 31
A Last Will	p. 32
You Mustn't Quit	p. 35
Home Is Where There's One to Love Us	p. 36
Success	p. 37
Don't Give Up	p. 38
It Might Have Been Worse	p. 39
The Pendulum	p. 40
Mistakes	p. 40
To a New Daughter-in-Law	p. 41
Take the World as It Is, selection	p. 42
A Birthday Wish	p. 42
Sunshine and Music	p. 43
That's Success!	p. 44
Friendship	p. 46
The Dawn	p. 46
Knowledge	p. 47
A Builder's Lesson, selection	p. 48
Mother's Hands	p. 49
A Smile	p. 50
The Whole Duty of a Poem	p. 51
God the Artist	p. 51
Who Does Not Love True Poetry	p. 52
Open Your Eyes	p. 54
Blind	p. 55
Fulfillment	p. 56
How Old Are You?	p. 57
Little Words	p. 58
Help Me Today	p. 58
Thinking Happiness	p. 59
A Good Creed	p. 60
It's Simply Great	p. 61
Outwitted	p. 63
Prayer of an Unemployed Man	p. 63
The Monk and the Peasant	p. 64
The Sinner	p. 65
Auction Sale--Household Furnishings	p. 66
Aloha Oe	p. 67
Be Kind	p. 68
Mediation No. 4891	p. 69
Any Husband or Wife	p. 70
Let Me Be a Giver	p. 71
Four Things	p. 72
I Have Found Such Joy	p. 73
Rendezvous	p. 74
Philosophy	p. 75
The Right Kind of People	p. 75
Friendship	p. 76
To Husband and Wife	p. 77
If You Made Gentler the Churlish World	p. 78
Forgiven	p. 79
My Wage	p. 80
Good-by	p. 81
The House of Pride	p. 82
Ol' Clothes	p. 83
Morning Prayer	p. 84
Equipment	p. 85
Pippa Passes, selection	p. 86
Prayer for This House	p. 87
No Friend Like Music	p. 88
Thank You, God	p. 88
My Creed	p. 89
Beauty as a Shield	p. 90
Together	p. 91
Toys	p. 92
A Prayer	p. 93
Shabby Old Dad	p. 94
A Bargain Sale	p. 95
Mediation No. 11087	p. 97
The Old Mother	p. 99
The Riddle	p. 101
The Lesson of the Water Mill	p. 101
Weighing the Baby	p. 102
Old Mothers	p. 104
Courtesy	p. 104
To My Son	p. 105
A Bridge Instead of a Wall	p. 106
For Sale or Rent	p. 106
I Saw Two Clouds at Morning	p. 107
You Never Can Tell	p. 108
For One Lately Bereft	p. 109
I Ponder on Life	p. 110
The Clown	p. 111
Shall I Complain?	p. 112
The Friend Who Just Stands	p. 112
Mediation No. 10871	p. 113
Seeds of Kindness	p. 115
A Woman's Question	p. 117
Blind	p. 119
Wishes	p. 120
On City Streets	p. 121
Accept My Full Heart's Thanks	p. 121
The Dreaded Task	p. 122
What Makes a Home?	p. 122
Beyond the Profit of Today	p. 124
Courage to Live	p. 125
Mediation No. 908	p. 126
Start Where You Stand	p. 129
He Lived a Life, selection	p. 130
Temper	p. 131
Essay on Man	p. 131
Erasers	p. 132
The New Leaf	p. 132
This Prayer I Make	p. 133
On Work	p. 134
The Human Touch	p. 135
Forget Thee?, selection	p. 136
Many Things	p. 137
There Is a Mystic Borderland	p. 137
Will	p. 138
A Smile	p. 138
From the Florence Nightingale Pledge	p. 139
To Be a Nurse	p. 140
This, Too, Shall Pass Away	p. 141
'Tis a Little Journey	p. 142
Today	p. 143
Nightfall	p. 144
Good Thoughts	p. 144
New Friends and Old Friends	p. 145
If I Knew You and You Knew Me	p. 146
High Resolve	p. 146
A Morning Prayer	p. 147
The Broken Sword	p. 148
Lest Thou Forget	p. 149
On File	p. 150
The Family	p. 151
The Most Vital Thing in Life	p. 152
Mediation No. 11009	p. 153
Better Than Gold	p. 155
The Door-Bell	p. 156
Disillusion	p. 157
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes	p. 158
There Is a Mystery in Human Hearts	p. 158
One Year to Live	p. 160
True Love	p. 161
What Shall I Do? from "Absence"	p. 162
Dusk	p. 162
Parting	p. 163
Giving and Forgiving	p. 164
If I Can Stop One Heart from breaking	p. 165
Tribute on the Passing of a Very Real Person	p. 165
Those We Love the Best	p. 166
Somewhere	p. 167
Faith	p. 168
Prayer for Strength	p. 169
The Pessimist	p. 170
How to Forget	p. 171
Life's Mirror	p. 172
Are You There?	p. 173
Song	p. 174
The Anvil--God's Word	p. 174
Crim and Punishment	p. 175
The Shut-in	p. 177
Worth While	p. 178
When a Man Turns Homeward	p. 179
Mediation No. 1894	p. 180
Two Kinds of People	p. 181
The Sin of Omission	p. 182
At a Window	p. 183
Definitions	p. 184
Pain	p. 185
Hymn	p. 186
First Impressions	p. 187
This Is Your Hour	p. 188
Good in Everything, selection	p. 189
The Old Year	p. 189
The New Year	p. 190
Fate	p. 190
Patience with the Living	p. 191
A Day	p. 192
Prayer of Any Husband	p. 193
Success	p. 194
Speak Gently	p. 195
Home	p. 196
Life's Made Up of Little Things	p. 197
Prayer	p. 198
We Have Lived and Loved Together	p. 198
Your Neighbor	p. 199
The Beggar	p. 200
Good-by	p. 202
The Little Things	p. 202
Silence	p. 203
The Hate and the Love of the World	p. 206
Who Are My People?	p. 207
Praise	p. 208
Old Houses	p. 209
In Your Absence	p. 210
Little Things	p. 210
Quiet Days	p. 211
The Ship That Sails	p. 212
The Blind Men and the Elephant	p. 213
For One Who Is Serene	p. 215
Faith	p. 216
Old Houses	p. 217
Thanksgiving	p. 217
Mediation No. 2053	p. 218
The Kindly Neighbor	p. 220
Harmony	p. 221
Let Us Have Peace	p. 222
The Only Way to Have a Friend	p. 223
The Touch of Human Hands	p. 224
Atonement	p. 225
Drop a Pebble in the Water	p. 225
Vision	p. 226
Rabbi Ben Ezra, selection	p. 227
Mediation No. 13057	p. 227
Wedding Anniversary	p. 230
John Anderson, My Jo	p. 231
As We Grow Older	p. 232
Ideals	p. 233
Roof-Tops	p. 233
Learn to Wait	p. 234
Faith for Tomorrow	p. 235
God Be with You	p. 235
The Philosopher	p. 236
Who Loves the Rain	p. 237
Selfishness	p. 238
Endurance	p. 238
Talk Happiness	p. 239
A Poem for Christmas	p. 240
I Think that God Is Proud	p. 241
Mediation No. 1313	p. 242
The Closed Door	p. 244
One Thing at a Time	p. 245
Hungering Hearts	p. 246
The Joy of Incompleteness	p. 247
Firm Belief	p. 248
Barter	p. 248
Midwinter	p. 249
The Quiet Life	p. 250
Before It Is Too Late	p. 251
I Never Knew a Night So Black	p. 252
Worries	p. 252
True Happiness	p. 253
Friendship	p. 254
Prayer for Shut-ins	p. 255
Salutation to the Dawn	p. 255
Three Gates of Gold	p. 256
Unsubdued	p. 257
There Is a Loneliness	p. 257
Life	p. 258
Whatever Is--Is Best	p. 259
The Boomerang	p. 260
Mediation No. 12672	p. 261
Compensation	p. 262
Work	p. 263
To Chloe, selection	p. 264
The Common Tasks	p. 264
A Vow for New Year's	p. 265
Mother	p. 266
Rest	p. 267
Beatitudes for a Housewife	p. 267
The Celestial Surgeon	p. 269
The Little Child's Faith	p. 269
Heart Wounds	p. 271
Life's Lesson	p. 272
The Bridge-Builder	p. 273
It Can Be Done	p. 274
Next Year	p. 275
A Gentle Word	p. 276
Little Things	p. 277
Too Late	p. 278
Communion	p. 279
Because You Care	p. 280
Retaliation	p. 281
Casual Meeting	p. 281
Understanding	p. 282
Watch Yourself Go By	p. 283
The Greater Gift	p. 284
Only a Little Thing	p. 285
The Five Best Doctors	p. 286
One of Us Two	p. 286
Before and After Marriage	p. 287
My Neighbor's Roses	p. 288
My Neighbor's Reply	p. 288
Be Hopeful	p. 289
A Prayer for Broken Little Families	p. 290
The Old Woman	p. 291
Decision	p. 291
Minutes of Gold	p. 292
Prayer for a Day's Walk	p. 293
The Heart's Anchor	p. 294
Away	p. 294
You Tell on Yourself	p. 295
The Preacher's Mistake	p. 296
The Gift	p. 297
Mediation No. 1458	p. 298
Life	p. 301
Our Own	p. 302
Alone	p. 303
Then Laugh	p. 304
At the Door	p. 305
Good Night! Good Night!	p. 306
Home	p. 307
To the New Owner	p. 308
God Bless You	p. 309
Is It a Dream?	p. 310
The Whirlpool	p. 311
There Is Always a Place for You	p. 312
Time's Hand Is Kind	p. 313
The Blind Man	p. 313
To Give One's Life	p. 314
Resolve	p. 315
Confide in a Friend	p. 315
A Prayer for Every Day	p. 316
Art Thou Lonely?	p. 317
What Is Good?	p. 317
Definition	p. 318
The Sincere Man	p. 319
If You Had a Friend	p. 320
Eternal Values	p. 320
Remembrance	p. 321
The Voice of God	p. 322
Good-bye	p. 322
"No!"	p. 324
Retribution, selection	p. 325
The Lonely Dog	p. 325
Beyond the Grave	p. 326
Hospital	p. 327
So Live, from "Thanatopsis"	p. 327
Life Owes Me Nothing	p. 328
Mother	p. 329
A Thankful Heart	p. 329
Love's Philosophy	p. 330
Plea for Tolerance	p. 331
The Arrow and the Song	p. 332
Worry	p. 332
Today	p. 333
God's Ways Are Strange	p. 334
Cloak of Laughter	p. 334
If Lincoln Should Return	p. 336
What the King Has	p. 336
Husband and Wife	p. 337
A Friend	p. 338
What's in It for Me?	p. 339
Take Time to Live	p. 340
For a New Home	p. 341
The Human Heart	p. 342
Patty-Poem	p. 343
Thanks Be to God	p. 344
Recipe for Living	p. 345
I Am Your Wife	p. 346
Love Is Kind	p. 346
Content	p. 347
These Are Not Lost	p. 347
Need of Loving	p. 348
I Would Be True	p. 349
Why Do I Live?	p. 350
Let's Forget	p. 350
For Those Who Fail	p. 351
For Love's Sake Only	p. 352
Rebirth	p. 353
Just to Be Needed	p. 354
Count Ten	p. 354
A Prayer for Faith	p. 355
The World We Make	p. 356
Mediation No. 2979	p. 357
Tank God!	p. 358
Be Patient	p. 359
A Dog's Vigil	p. 360
The Dreams Ahead	p. 361
Sons of Promise	p. 362
Friends	p. 363
Mediation No. 7398	p. 364
Two Prayers	p. 365
We Kiss'd Again with Tears, from "The Princess"	p. 366
Let Him Return	p. 367
Discovery	p. 367
True to the Best	p. 368
Little Roads to Happiness	p. 369
The Tongue	p. 370
At Sunrise	p. 371
Question Not	p. 371
Understanding	p. 372
I Am Still Rich	p. 373
I Know Something Good about You	p. 374
Was, Is, and Yet-to-be	p. 375
Blessed Are They	p. 377
A Country Town, selection	p. 377
Giving	p. 378
Work for Small Men, selection	p. 378
The Power of Prayer	p. 379
Mother	p. 379
My Friends Are Little Lamps to Me	p. 380
Moderation
Translation of Horace (Odes Book II)	p. 381
To My Friend	p. 381
Visit the Sick	p. 382
An Angry Word	p. 383
Guide-posts on the Footpath to Peace	p. 383
Acknowledgments	p. 385
Index of Authors	p. 393
Index of Titles	p. 397
Index of First Lines	p. 404
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