A Fern Emerging (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Waking, stretching casting off sleep, cocoon of its slumber awakening to the dawn of spring, new life in the fresh ...
Waking, stretching casting off sleep, cocoon of its slumber awakening to the dawn of spring, new life in the fresh ...
His mother's voice through his mother's womb gave away his presence, his nearness his being, so close, so close a ...
Sitting still, quiet, alone, in the living room of my boyhood alone with my thoughts after the Christmas day watching ...
If tired of trees I seek again mankind, Well I know where to hie me--in the dawn, To a slope ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
I have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real. Is there still time for me to ...
Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. ...
The intact facade's now almost black in the rain; all day they've torn at the back of the building, "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. ...
All night long, by a distant bell, The passing hours were notched On the dark, while her breathing rose and ...
I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...
A little bread -- a crust -- a crumb -- A little trust -- a demijohn -- Can keep the ...
A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides -- You may have met Him -- did you not His notice ...
My hands did numb to beauty as they reached into Death and tightened! O sovereign was my touch upon the ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
I How warm this woodland wild Recess ! Love surely hath been breathing here ; And this sweet bed of ...
Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their window they with downward eye ...
Song (Act V, scene i) And this place our forefathers made for man ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
AH! from my eyes the tears unbidden start, Albion! as now thy cliffs (that bright appear Far o'er the wave, ...
In summer's mellow midnight, A cloudless moon shone through Our open parlour window, And rose-trees wet with dew. I sat ...
Love's worshippers alone can know The thousand mysteries that are his; His blazing torch, his twanging bow, His blooming age ...
Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun, Into the free companionship of air; Perhaps with sunsets when the ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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