The Silence before the Applause (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There was a silence, before the applause this morning in church, after the fourteen voices, the lone trumpet, and pianoforte ...
There was a silence, before the applause this morning in church, after the fourteen voices, the lone trumpet, and pianoforte ...
She was crying, after bumping her head, her nose on the wooden headboard crying loudly within the space below the ...
Like a giant game of blocks is the washing of dishes of a family of five even when only the ...
What a project to move a ten by ten heavy, dead weight heavy wooden shed from the middle of the ...
Cod cakes, handmade with her hands butter, egg, potato and cod, in wooden boxes salted and saved for our dinner ...
Life was simpler Before Offer Acceptance Revocation Time lapse Counter offer Silence as acceptance Acceptance as mirror image of offer ...
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,-- Sailed on a river of misty light Into ...
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...
The monster has escaped from the dungeon where he was kept by the Baron, who made him with knobs sticking ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
I know some lonely Houses off the Road A Robber'd like the look of -- Wooden barred, And Windows hanging ...
After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -- The stiff Heart questions was ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to ...
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend ...
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna or on any river for that matter to be perfectly honest. Not ...
The early sun is so pale and shadowy, I could be looking up at a ghost in the shape of ...
Smokey the Bear heads into the autumn woods with a red can of gasoline and a box of wooden matches. ...
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht; a scalp so often scalded with boiling water that ...
1. Dear relatives and friends, when my last breath Grows large and free in air, don't call it death -- ...
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