Antlers in the Marsh (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The ancient oaks long losing their leaves their branches shattered the bark bled away the wood underneath turning like ivory ...
The ancient oaks long losing their leaves their branches shattered the bark bled away the wood underneath turning like ivory ...
Not rigid poles, marking the ends, of a line static and unchanging a yes or a no situation in clear ...
Not poles on a line static and unchanging a yes or a no in black and white Not even arcs ...
Hot summer eve watching by the lawn, the field dancing light in the grasses the fireflies showing their finery climbing ...
in our worship, in our daily lives calling the Spirit, to awaken, to pass over the waters to alight on ...
Nil mortalibus ardui est Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia Horace FROM Persian looms the silk he wove No Weaver meant should ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
The west was getting out of gold, The breath of air had died of cold, When shoeing home across the ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: ...
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw, And set the blooming world a-work for me, Like such as ...
Bells in the town alight with spring converse, with a concordance of new airs make clear the fresh and ancient ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
Peace is a fiction of our Faith -- The Bells a Winter Night Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound That ...
Cosmopolities without a plea Alight in every Land The compliments of Paradise From those within my Hand Their dappled Journey ...
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
Were meetings predestined then ours was intended, great oracles decreed it as fate, and the auguries chattered with sweet benefactors ...
Were meetings destined then this was one to take a leading place, the oracle decreed it fate in a matrix ...
At break of day we rested, the contest of our wills declined to wrest the peace away and where the ...
It was the days of the slow roll, times when we dextrously dressed our hand-rolled cigarettes with a dearth of ...
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, In ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, In ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
All or Nothing The final race. the final decision All disgrace or fortune all Either I fall or I stand ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
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