Helen Steiner Rice

Helen Steiner Rice Poems

Friendship is a Golden Chain,
The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
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Our Father knows what's best for us,
So why should we complain
We always want the sunshine,
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Fathers are wonderful people
Too little understood,
And we do not sing their praises
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A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain,
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No winter without a spring
And beyond the dark horizon
Our hearts will once more sing ….
For those who leave us for a while
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Often your tasks will be many,
And more than you think you can do.
Often the road will be rugged
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'Love is like Magic and it always will be,
For Love still remains Life's Sweet Mystery!
Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange
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People need people and friends need friends
And we all need love for a full life depends
Not on vast riches or great acclaim,
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Helen Steiner Rice Biography

Helen Steiner Rice (May 19, 1900 – April 23, 1981) was an American writer of religious and inspirational poetry. Helen Steiner was born in Lorain, Ohio on May 19, 1900. Her father, a railroad worker, died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. She began work for a public utility and progressed to the position of advertising manager, which was rare for a woman at that time. She also became the Ohio State Chairman of the Women's Public Information Committee of the Electric Light Association, and campaigned for women's rights and improved working conditions. In 1929 she married Franklin Dryden Rice, a bank vice-president in Dayton, Ohio. After the stock market crash in October that year, Franklin lost his job and his investments. He fell into a depression from which he never recovered, and committed suicide in 1932. Rice became a successful businesswoman and lecturer, but found her most satisfying outlet in writing verse for the prominent greeting card company American Greetings. Her poems received wide exposure in the 1960s when several were read by Aladdin on the poetry segment of the Lawrence Welk television show. The demand for her poems became so great that her books are still selling steadily after many printings, and she has been acclaimed as "America's beloved inspirational poet laureate". Helen Steiner Rice’s books of inspirational poetry have now sold nearly seven million copies. Her strong religious faith and the ability she had to express deep emotion gave her poems timeless appeal. She died on the evening of April 23, 1981, a month before her 81st birthday, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Lorain, Ohio.)

The Best Poem Of Helen Steiner Rice

A Golden Chain

Friendship is a Golden Chain,
The links are friends so dear,
And like a rare and precious jewel
It's treasured more each year...

It's clasped together firmly
With a love that's deep and true,
And it's rich with happy memories
and fond recollections, too...

Time can't destroy its beauty
For, as long as memory lives,
Years can't erase the pleasure
That the joy of friendship gives...

For friendship is a priceless gift
That can't be bought or sold,
But to have an understanding friend
Is worth far more than gold...

And the Golden Chain of Friendship
Is a strong and blessed tie
Binding kindred hearts together
As the years go passing by.

Helen Steiner Rice Comments

Many Thanks, for sharing this biography information, in regards, to one of my most inspired & writing hero's in our present time... Her writings are truly timeless indeed...

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Elizabeth Grobbelaar 05 December 2017

I believe that I have found original peices written by the author herself

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terry 29 March 2018

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Kathleen Logan 02 April 2018

Looking for her poem that starts I spoke to you about your soul today's. We think the title is To My Friend.

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Daisy loane 04 May 2018

Who is the author of this biography?

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Teresa McDaniel 08 September 2022

In 1981 my mother in law gave me a copy of 'And the Greatest of These is Love' by Helen Steiner Rice for my birthday. On page 60 is a poem 'Birthdays are a gift from God' of which I have included in birthday cards to our 5 grandchildren on occasion.

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neeka 09 October 2019

i really love her poems because they're just so meaningful. i really want to become just like her

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Florence Minors 07 August 2019

I love your poem that starts I cannot say I will not say she not dead she is just away

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Irene Johnson 30 June 2019

I have loved Helen Steiner Rice's poem all these many years. I am now in my 80's and attend a weekly meeting at our local nursing home and I always read one of her poems. All who attend really enjoy them! ! It give us all a lift and I want to thank you! ! !

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William.gavin 05 December 2018

Hi you all, I have just been looking through my (very old bible 1953.) I have had this bible 15/20 years.and I came across a small sketched print/ peom.by Helen Steiner rice.the poem is called, A Christmas Meditation.the print is a small church with people entering. can you give me any info of it’s history plus any one who would embrace it for all its beauty print size is 5”x 3”.thank you.

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