In the Words of Scripture (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
At the tip of his lips ready to use them the smooth stones of the wadi carried in his mind ...
At the tip of his lips ready to use them the smooth stones of the wadi carried in his mind ...
He stood alone or seemingly so on the battlefield the giant before him Powerful, David, the shepherd standing on the ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
That God should love me is more wonderful Than that I so imperfectly love him. My reason is mortality, and ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
"Lights out" along the land, "Lights out" upon the sea. The night must put her hiding hand O'er peaceful towns ...
Home, for my heart still calls me; Home, through the danger zone; Home, whatever befalls me, I will sail again ...
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike -- But this slew all but him -- Who so appareled his Escape ...
Of Death I try to think like this -- The Well in which they lay us Is but the Likeness ...
Bind me -- I still can sing -- Banish -- my mandolin Strikes true within -- Slay -- and my ...
The events of September 11th 2001 remain bitter sweet; as well as 2973 innocents confirmed dead (with their 19 terrorist ...
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
My friend went to the piano; spun the stool A little higher; left his pipe to cool; Picked up a ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
YOU are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; But all the sea of sadness in my blood Surges, and ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
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