In Praise of Weeding (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Rich loam between my fingers, grip of stems, roots, balls of grass pull up through the rain drenched soil smell ...
Rich loam between my fingers, grip of stems, roots, balls of grass pull up through the rain drenched soil smell ...
A family of five with three balls, and stomachs still full of turkey, of pancakes, and sausage ran and played ...
My wife shared with me new candles votives to replace those used up Suddenly I was six, maybe eight certainly ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulder in ...
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
To interrupt His Yellow Plan The Sun does not allow Caprices of the Atmosphere -- And even when the Snow ...
The Dust behind I strove to join Unto the Disk before -- But Sequence ravelled out of Sound Like Balls ...
She sights a Bird -- she chuckles -- She flattens -- then she crawls -- She runs without the look ...
My Portion is Defeat -- today -- A paler luck than Victory -- Less Paeans -- fewer Bells -- The ...
My God -- He sees thee -- Shine thy best -- Fling up thy Balls of Gold Till every Cubit ...
I cannot dance upon my Toes -- No Man instructed me -- But oftentimes, among my mind, A Glee possesseth ...
He fought like those Who've nought to lose -- Bestowed Himself to Balls As One who for a further Life ...
A little bread -- a crust -- a crumb -- A little trust -- a demijohn -- Can keep the ...
A Dying Tiger -- moaned for Drink -- I hunted all the Sand -- I caught the Dripping of a ...
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind -- As if my Brain had split -- I tried to match it ...
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Ophelia claims we're dead and gives me back all my Frank Zappa and the Mothers albums. I nearly claw out ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
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