In Humility Righteousness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The prayers that they offered in the story of Jesus the Pharisee and the tax collector both on their knees ...
Poems about begging (31 Poems)
In Confessing His Sin (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In confessing his sin his humble estate coming before God knowing he should die In ashes and sackcloth mourning our ...
Be Merciful to me, a sinner (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Falling to his knees praying humbly knowing himself confessing his sin praying honestly to God Aware of his place how ...
What I have I give you (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A beggar all his life crippled and unclean sitting, begging at the Beautiful Gate unable to enter in Peter having ...
Fear of the Lord (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not our equal merely in his image a pale copy, feet of clay dust into whom you alone breathe life ...
Even the Fringe of His Cloak (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As they were, sick Bringing them to him Asking, begging Touching only the edge even the fringe of his cloak ...
Alms (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He was begging for alms, money for the poor, this lame man What he received, healing; but not merely of ...
Jumping (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not begging for crumbs no longer an outcast shouting, leaping, jumping for joy healed, physically, spiritually in the name of ...
Humbling Himself (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
His head to the floor, his heart begging for forgiveness, fully aware of his sin, his need for God, because ...
Humble Before the Lord (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He bowed, weighed down by his breach his sin, before God, bowing low begging the creator, for forgiveness of his ...
A Tale of Two Tuesdays (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It was a great day, it was a lousy day to be in the academy She snarled, they barked at ...
A Bowl of Walnuts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pining for peanuts praying for the nuts begging for them a gray squirrel by our porch pitch a peanut, watch ...
The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
The Unequal Fetters (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Cou'd we stop the time that's flying Or recall itt when 'tis past Put far off the day of Dying ...
The Dog And His Master (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
Kinky (Denise Duhamel Poem)
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
The Bait (John Donne Poem)
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sand, and crystal ...
Elegy I: Jealousy (John Donne Poem)
Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die, And yet complain'st of his great jealousy; If swol'n with poison, he ...
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar -- Until the morning sun -- When One -- turned smiling to the land ...
There comes an hour when begging stops, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
There comes an hour when begging stops, When the long interceding lips Perceive their prayer is vain. "Thou shalt not" ...
Tell as a Marksman — were forgotten (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Tell as a Marksman -- were forgotten Tell -- this Day endures Ruddy as that coeval Apple The Tradition bears ...
It came his turn to beg — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It came his turn to beg -- The begging for the life Is different from another Alms 'Tis Penury in ...
The last excuse (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What is left now that we've used the last excuse, what is left to justify excess. The rhetoric at best ...
I’m Your Man (Leonard Cohen Poems)
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Waiting For The Miracle (Leonard Cohen Poem)
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I ...
Do not be ashamed (Wendell Berry Poem)
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Dream Song 72: The Elder Presences (John Berryman Poem)
Shh! on a twine hung from disastered trees Henry is swinging his daughter. They seem drunk. Over across them look ...
TO A BROWN BEGGAR-MAID (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
WHITE maiden with the russet hair, Whose garments, through their holes, declare That poverty is part of you, And beauty ...