stories Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Front Page (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Top billing Center stage above the fold A human interest story He and the black ice That took him, among ...

Joyful Tears (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Tears of joy welled up in his heart spilled down his cheeks in the pew again Frozen Yankee stoicism melted ...

Sand Castles (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Molded and shaped Specks of the rocks they once were Packed and organized in the buckets Like the seconds of ...

Rolling Stone (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Like an army general on parade reviewing the troops in the convoy tooling down the highway into battle I drove ...

Walking with Paul (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

I wanted to call this "walking with the prophet" Because I feel he was more like the exhorter Elijah Guiding ...

Meeting Grounds (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Reverend Brown told me some of the stories the history of these hallowed grounds Where generations pitched their tents around ...

A New Shepherd (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

We heard a new shepherd in the quiet of the congregation listening, hanging on each new word our attention held ...

The peter-bird (Eugene Field Poem)

Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...

The Morning Baking (Carolyn Forche Poem)

Grandma, come back, I forgot How much lard for these rolls Think you can put yourself in the ground Like ...

The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...

The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...

The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...

Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)

IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...

The King and the Shepherd (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)

Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...

Maple (Robert Frost Poem)

Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...

Canute the Great (Marriott Edgar Poem)

I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...

At The Smithville Methodist Church (Stephen Dunn Poem)

It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" ...

The Child and the Mariner (William Henry Davies Poem)

A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...

The Ancient World (Mark Doty Poem)

Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...

Demolition (Mark Doty Poem)

The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "the ...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...

When We Were Young (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...

Tickets to the game (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

I asked my Dad about the War when I was very young, he said it happened a long, long time ...

The Ships of Saint John (Bliss Carman Poem)

Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...

The Garden of Janus (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...

The Garden of Janus (Aleister Crowley Poem)