A Year’s Wages (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
How much could the split oil have bought how many lives would it have touched how wasteful it must have ...
How much could the split oil have bought how many lives would it have touched how wasteful it must have ...
Forgiveness, pardon were woven in words, we could understand, appreciate, bring home to our own hearts reach empathy, equate, learn ...
A poem a day, for the past year flowing from the keys I press, the pen, the paper, the gift ...
Words, words that can hurt words of wisdom, of healing, of guidance, to live our lives but The Word, now ...
A momentary blip, a bump on the road of life hit us again today, as it has for a few ...
I will always feel the ache of our parting and the balm of our joining DRAFT 12/13/05 18:05, written in ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame, From whom that sea did first derive her name, The blessed bed whereon ...
NEAR to the silver Trent SIRENA dwelleth; She to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late ...
Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of fifteen, Felt an innocent warmth as she lay on the green: She had ...
I When tulips bloom in Union Aquare, And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town, Like ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
Upon a Lilac Sea To toss incessantly His Plush Alarm Who fleeing from the Spring The Spring avenging fling To ...
Unto the Whole -- how add? Has "All" a further realm -- Or Utmost an Ulterior? Oh, Subsidy of Balm! ...
This is the place they hoped before, Where I am hoping now. The seed of disappointment grew Within a capsule ...
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart -- That knows -- and does not know -- And tosses like a Fleet of ...
Ourselves we do inter with sweet derision. The channel of the dust who once achieves Invalidates the balm of that ...
Not any sunny tone From any fervent zone Find entrance there -- Better a grave of Balm Toward human nature's ...
Kill your Balm -- and its Odors bless you -- Bare your Jessamine -- to the storm -- And she ...
I rose -- because He sank -- I thought it would be opposite -- But when his power dropped -- ...
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of ...
Death's Waylaying not the sharpest Of the thefts of Time -- There Marauds a sorer Robber, Silence -- is his ...
Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard! Was the Leopard -- bold? Deserts -- never rebuked her Satin -- Ethiop -- ...
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes -- I wonder if It weighs like Mine -- Or ...
You love me -- you are sure -- I shall not fear mistake -- I shall not cheated wake -- ...
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