Our First Audience (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
More than any other down in the basement out thespian drive the words, motion our costuming the curtain over the ...
More than any other down in the basement out thespian drive the words, motion our costuming the curtain over the ...
There was a silence, before the applause this morning in church, after the fourteen voices, the lone trumpet, and pianoforte ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
This is the word tightrope. Now imagine a man, inching across it in the space between our thoughts. He holds ...
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
In pride of wit when high desire of fame Gave life and courage to my laboring pen, And first the ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
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 ...
The Birds begun at Four o'clock -- Their period for Dawn -- A Music numerous as space -- But neighboring ...
'Tis easier to pity those when dead That which pity previous Would have saved -- A Tragedy enacted Secures Applause ...
The Mountains -- grow unnoticed -- Their Purple figures rise Without attempt -- Exhaustion -- Assistance -- or Applause -- ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
Honor and happiness unite To make the Christian's name a praise; How fair the scene, how clear the light, That ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
It was a storefront for a small-time numbers runner, pretending to be some sort of grocery. Coffeemakers and Bustello cans ...
When the Academy of Arts demanded freedom Of artistic expression from narrow-minded bureaucrats There was a howl and a clamour ...
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue ...
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me to the ...
He wondered: Do I love? all this applause, young beauties sitting at my feet & all, and all. It tires ...
Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness, Circled three times above the upturned faces With a great whir of ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
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