Run the Race (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
If only we would just run forward, mile on mile, not look backward, behind us, second guessing, looking for the ...
If only we would just run forward, mile on mile, not look backward, behind us, second guessing, looking for the ...
Wisdom poured down, palpable wisdom like a living stream pouring forth from behind the pulpit out onto the hushed sanctuary ...
It was so easy to appreciate; but so hard to explain No, no, scratch that, the other way around Deaf ...
Joy At the starting A new life New friends, peers, colleagues Challenges for my mind My spirit, myself Unfettered, open, ...
Study, argue, think Lawyers share common bonds with Artists How novel, how strange These seven boxes of time and space ...
(EGYPTIAN FOLK-SONG) Grim is the face that looks into the night Over the stretch of sands; A sullen rock in ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
CUPID, ere depriv'd of Sight, Young and apt for all Delight, Met with Folly on the way, As Idle and ...
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
A Charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld -- The Lady date not lift her Veil For fear it be dispelled ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
It was the days of the slow roll, times when we dextrously dressed our hand-rolled cigarettes with a dearth of ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
It was a half-life that seemed like a genuine world wielding hard symbolism over those who ruled it; we lived ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
Here at the spoke-ends of our galaxy it is easy to forget the central axle moving insensibly slow, still the ...
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Fear death?-to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts ...
He sleeps on the top of a mast. - Bunyan He sleeps on the top of a mast with his ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
The white fog creeps from the cold sea over the city, Over the pale grey tumbled towers,- And settles among ...
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