Martha Lavinia Hoffman (1865–1900)

Poemas

• A Bosom Friend
• A Divine Codicil
• A Dream Picture (A lady who lived in a time gone by)
• A Dream Picture (I dreamed of one who just had died)
• A Farewell (Farewell, but oh, where'er you go)
• A Farewell (Goodbye, perhaps forever here)
• A Life Work
• A Prisoner
• A Song of Joy
• A Summer Friendship
• A Summer Morning
• Abutilon Bells
• Accepted and Rejected
• Alder Creek
• Ambition's Climax
• Angelus
• Arcata
• At Eventide It Shall Be Light
• Baby Bessie
• Baby Brother
• Baby May
• Banjo Jim
• Be Patient, My Spirit
• Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out
• Be True
• Beautiful Thoughts
• Behold He Prayeth
• Bethlehem
• Bird Songs
• Boat Riding on Blue Lakes
• Broken Hearts
• Burden Bearing
• Buried
• California's Woodlands
• Cities in the Sand
• City and Country
• Coals
• Come
• Coming Back
• Connecting Links
• Consider the Lilies
• Defects
• Development
• Do They Think of Me at Home?
• Dream of the Summer Land
• Earth and Sky
• Earth's Power and Weakness
• Earth's Sorrows
• Easter Anthem
• Easter Hymn
• Eden
• Empty Nests
• Estella
• Every Heart Knowest Its Bitterness
• Existence
• Experimentum Crusis
• Flor del Espiritu Santo
• Flowers and Weeds
• Forget Not God
• From My Window
• Gather the Wild Flowers
• God's Gift to Man
• Going Down Hill
• Great Forces
• Had I but Wings Like Thine
• Heartache
• Help Each Other
• Hope in God
• Hope's Choral
• How Perrim Treated the Girls
• In All Their Affliction He Was Afflicted
• Ione Valley
• Josephine
• Lament of the Fallen Oak
• Language of the Stars
• Laurel Dell
• Leonard Lake
• Life's Aim
• Life's Fruition
• Life's Possibilities
• Life's Uncertainty
• Lily of the Nile
• Lines (May the first song and yet the last I sing)
• Lines (The years bring changes as they come)
• Lines on Night
• Lines to a Maiden
• Lines to the Ocean
• Little Things
• Little Things of Earth
• Looking Beyond (Thank God there is a future, in whose sweep)
• Looking Beyond (Today the glorious King of Day is smiling)
• Lost Hope
• Love's Counterfeits
• Love's Petition
• Man by Wisdom Cannot Find Out God
• Manzanita Blooms
• Marguerites
• Mistaken Values
• Moonlight Boat Song
• My Choice
• My Duty
• My Father Knows the Way
• My Poem
• My Sanctum
• Nature
• None Shall Be Lost Whom God Can Save
• Not as a King
• O Can I Be Happy in Heaven?
• O Dweller in the Dreamy Past!
• October Musings
• Old Modoc
• On the Evening Train
• One and Another
• One Little Glimpse of Heaven
• Our Better Selves
• Our God
• Our Lilies
• Our Nation's Slavery
• Our Walk
• Out of Darkness
• Pacific Grove
• Pansy Faces
• Peace, Troubled Soul—Song
• Pity Her Not
• Poison Ivy
• Purity
• Rain on the Mown Grass
• Redemption Song
• Remember Thy Creator
• Rosebuds (Impatient children, we, who cannot wait)
• Rosebuds (Silken sachets of perfume)
• Sabbath Bells
• Sadness and Mirth
• She Is Not Gone
• Slavery
• Sometime in Heaven
• Song (My merry maid in the maple shade)
• Song (There are shadows in the sunshine)
• Song of Rejoicing
• Song of the Cricket
• Song of the Easter Lilies
• Song—You Will Forget But Remember Again
• Song: Because I Love Her So
• Sorrows
• Stones and Jewels of Fame
• Subtle Influence
• Success and Failure
• Suppose
• Swan River Daisies
• The Answered Petition
• The Beautiful Past
• The Billow's Answer
• The Bird's Song
• The Blind Musician
• The Bloomed Bud
• The Blue Daisies of the Crag
• The Bridal Bell
• The Bugle and the Battle
• The Burning Building
• The Cavern by the Sea
• The Chambers of Imagery
• The Christian Life
• The Climbers
• The Coyote
• The Cry of the Soul
• The Day of Justice
• The Deep of Despair and the Haven of Happiness
• The Depths
• The Desert Camel
• The Earthquake
• The Easter Day
• The End of Living
• The False and the True
• The Fields
• The Gallery of the Great Artist
• The Grandmas
• The Granite Boulder of the Beach
• The Grave of the Suicide
• The Haven of Rest
• The Heavenly Hope
• The Heavenly Jerusalem
• The Heavenly Mansions
• The Heavenly Messenger
• The Invalid to the Caged Bird
• The Joy of Living
• The Lady of the Wreck
• The Legend of Lover's Leap
• The Little Toiler
• The Longing of the Soul
• The Love of God
• The Maiden's Lament to Her False Lover
• The Meadow Lark
• The Mind's Treasure-house
• The Multitude
• The New Song
• The Oak and the Vine
• The Opening of the Roses
• The Orchard Call
• The Other Side ("They are beautiful," said mamma, pointing to the starry skies)
• The Other Side (I have looked on the other side of life)
• The Pacific
• The Paths of Peace
• The Patriot Abroad
• The Power of Kindness
• The Procession
• The Rainless Summer
• The Red Linnet
• The Reign of the Roses
• The Requiem of the Dove
• The Rescuer's Request
• The Revealing
• The River of Blessing
• The Roses
• The Scepter the Poppy Yields
• The Seaside Cemetery
• The Song of Hope
• The Song of Peace
• The Sower's Song
• The Spirit of Poesy
• The Spirit Realm
• The Three Comforters
• The Tomb of Man
• The True Dignity of Labor
• The Two Roads
• The Veiled Land
• The Voice from the River
• The Voice of the Clock
• The Waters of Marah
• The Waves and the Rocks
• The Way, the Truth, and the Life
• The White Crane
• The Wild Deer
• The Woman to Her False Lover
• The Years
• The Years of Our Lives
• There Is a God
• They Weep No More
• Think for Yourself
• Thou Shalt Forget Thy Misery
• Through the Golden Gate
• To Him that Overcometh
• To My Pansies
• To the Birds
• To the Epworth League
• To the Lady at the Window
• To the Possessor of an Unbridled Tongue
• To the Trees
• To the Wild Canaries
• Tonight
• True Worth
• Twilight Thoughts
• Two Christmas Pictures
• U. S. Grant
• Under the Alders
• Under the Violets Blue
• Unrequited Love
• Unsaid
• Unwritten History
• We Cannot Know Each Other
• We Shall Sleep but We Shall Waken
• What Shall It Profit Me?
• When Sankey Sang
• Where True Wisdom Is Gained
• Will There Be no Flowers in Heaven?
• Within the Vale
• Workers