Our Work Ahead (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Lord, We thank you for this holy ground, this place we are gathered in We thank you for the vision ...
Lord, We thank you for this holy ground, this place we are gathered in We thank you for the vision ...
Lord, We thank you for this holy ground, this place we are gathered in We thank you for the vision ...
Rail against injustice Advocate for the rights of the weak in court, in the gate, and in the schools Yearn ...
For so long, in my life, unable to discern, to appreciate the moment of shock, or anger, of desire for ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
You best discern'd of my mind's inward eyes, And yet your graces outwardly divine, Whose dear remembrance in my bosom ...
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
To disappear enhances -- The Man that runs away Is tinctured for an instant With Immortality But yesterday a Vagrant ...
Some -- Work for Immortality -- The Chiefer part, for Time -- He -- Compensates -- immediately -- The former ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent ...
How still, how happy! Those are words That once would scarce agree together; I loved the plashing of the surge ...
When beauty breaks and falls asunder I feel no grief for it, but wonder. When love, like a frail shell, ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
I wonder how you feel to-day As I have felt since, hand in hand, We sat down on the grass, ...
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