399. Show me the Way by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
EW Wheeler read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\n\n--------------------------------------------\n\nShow me the Way\nby Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 \u2013 1919)\n\nShow me the way that leads to the true life.\n I do not care what tempests may assail me,\nI shall be given courage for the strife;\n I know my strength will not desert or fail me;\nI know that I shall conquer in the fray:\n Show me the way.\n\nShow me the way up to a higher plane,\n Where body shall be servant to the soul.\nI do not care what tides of woe or pain\n Across my life their angry waves may roll,\nIf I but reach the end I seek, some day:\n Show me the way.\n\nShow me the way, and let me bravely climb\n Above vain grievings for unworthy treasures;\nAbove all sorrow that finds balm in time;\n Above small triumphs or belittling pleasures;\nUp to those heights where these things seem child's-play:\n Show me the way.\n\nShow me the way to that calm, perfect peace\n Which springs from an inward consciousness of right;\nTo where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease,\n And self shall radiate with the spirit's light.\nThough hard the journey and the strife, I pray,\n Show me the way.\n\n\nFirst aired: 31 January 2008\n\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009