---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Frost, Grace Ingles
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 8
number: 11
published: 1905-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Hearts of Gold: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 11 (September 1905): 861.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0811unse
start_page: 861
end_page: 861
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse
  publication_year: 1905
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Hearts of Gold: A Poem

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                               HEARTS OF GOLD.


            Hearts of gold!      How many are there on the earth?
            Hearts devoid of any substance not of worth.

            Hearts of gold!      We fail to find them, just because
            Eyes are dim, yet ever watching to see flaws.

            Hearts of gold!      Yes; there are many hearts of gold
            Hidden oft within the caskets of plain mold.

            Hearts of gold need no adornment; that is why,
            In our search, we often pass them by.
                                                         Grace Ingles Frost.
Salt Lake City, Utah.