Leon (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He walked the streets of the old mill town long past the heyday of his life heavy soles on his ...
He walked the streets of the old mill town long past the heyday of his life heavy soles on his ...
All day long they come and go-- Pittypat and Tippytoe; Footprints up and down the hall, Playthings scattered on the ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
I hang about the streets all day, At night I hang about; I sleep a little when I may, But ...
You brave heroic minds, Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue, Go, and subdue, Whilst loit'ring hinds Lurke here ...
SINCE there 's no help, come let us kiss and part-- Nay, I have done, you get no more of ...
Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part, Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own; For sure our souls ...
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes, And her brows are half uplifted in ...
Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve; Poorly enrich't ...
Sweet Mountains -- Ye tell Me no lie -- Never deny Me -- Never fly -- Those same unvarying Eyes ...
Like Flowers, that heard the news of Dews, But never deemed the dripping prize Awaited their -- low Brows -- ...
There is a morn by men unseen -- Whose maids upon remoter green Keep their Seraphic May -- And all ...
What is left now that we've used the last excuse, what is left to justify excess. The rhetoric at best ...
We are honored and humble and earnest to share in events which would happen although we weren't there, a trifling ...
THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain In the field that is stored with its millions of slain ...
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
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 ...
As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood, That crests its Head with clouds, beneath the flood Feeds its deep ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
That wind is from the North, I know it well; No other breeze could have so wild a swell. Now ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
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