Something of Heaven (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He reminded us of a truth too oft' forgotten faith can afford, offers a glimpse, a foreshadowing a foretaste Something ...
He reminded us of a truth too oft' forgotten faith can afford, offers a glimpse, a foreshadowing a foretaste Something ...
A neighborhood on their front stoops open doors for those who can't afford don't have fans, air conditioners foreign tongues, ...
A HERMIT'S house beside a stream With forests planted round, Whatever it to you may seem More real happiness I ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on ...
for tess Tonight there's a crowd in my head: all the things you are not yet. You are words without ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm; ...
They called me to the Window, for " 'Twas Sunset" -- Some one said -- I only saw a Sapphire ...
Such is the Force of Happiness -- The Least -- can lift a Ton Assisted by its stimulus -- Who ...
Of Brussels -- it was not -- Of Kidderminster? Nay -- The Winds did buy it of the Woods -- ...
It's easy to invent a Life -- God does it -- every Day -- Creation -- but the Gambol Of ...
I reckon -- when I count it all -- First -- Poets -- Then the Sun -- Then Summer -- ...
I Came to buy a smile -- today -- But just a single smile -- The smallest one upon your ...
In Memory of John Keats By the Aurelian Wall, Where the long shadows of the centuries fall From Caius Cestius' ...
They spoke of Progress spiring round, Of light and Mrs Humphrey Ward-- It is not true to say I frowned, ...
This is the feast of heavenly wine, And God invites to sup; The juices of the living Vine Were press'd ...
The Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the truth to sight; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. A ...
The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade: The winds play no ...
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my Soul ...
Hatred and vengence-my eternal portion Scarce can endure delay of execution- Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
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