Tainted (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She was impure, no longer chaste or so he thought; but trying to do the honorable thing, under the law, ...
She was impure, no longer chaste or so he thought; but trying to do the honorable thing, under the law, ...
When I remark her golden hair Swoon on her glorious shoulders, I marvel not that sight so rare Doth ravish ...
SING his praises that doth keep Our flocks from harm. Pan, the father of our sheep; And arm in arm ...
HEAR, ye ladies that despise What the mighty Love has done; Fear examples and be wise: Fair Callisto was a ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
O Fair and stately maid, whose eye Was kindled in the upper sky At the same torch that lighted mine; ...
My Fair, if thou wilt register my love, A world of volumes shall thereof arise; Preserve my tears, and thou ...
Yet read at last the story of my woe, The dreary abstracts of my endless cares, With my life's sorrow ...
To the Vestals Those priests which first the Vestal fire begun, Which might be borrow'd from no earthly flame, Devis'd ...
An Allusion to the Phoenix 'Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round Of the birds' kind, the Phoenix is ...
Because she could find no one else to paint a picture of the old family place where she and her ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may ...
We talked with family last night, not mine or yours specifically but ours, the ones we love familiarly. When little ...
I cannot let the moment pass without a weary greeting, or retard the recent past where shadows still are fleeting, ...
And here the precious dust is laid; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made So fine that it the guest betray'd. Else ...
We read of kings and gods that kindly took A pitcher fill'd with water from the brook ; But I ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
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