But, We Wouldn’t Do That (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
If I were to put my feet, into the sandals of the listeners, the first audience for these stories, I ...
If I were to put my feet, into the sandals of the listeners, the first audience for these stories, I ...
He watched me oh so closely as I stalked him, took shot after shot the staccato of the shutter caused ...
"Sweetheart, take this," a soldier said, "And bid me brave good-by; It may befall we ne'er shall wed, But love ...
When Willie was a little boy, No more than five or six, Right constantly he did annoy His mother with ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Thou hast committed- Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. ...
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
Home, for my heart still calls me; Home, through the danger zone; Home, whatever befalls me, I will sail again ...
Hope is a subtle Glutton -- He feeds upon the Fair -- And yet -- inspected closely What Abstinence is ...
He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen. But there was probably another ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
It may indeed be fantasy when I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely ...
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent ...
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
Far, far away is mirth withdrawn 'Tis three long hours before the morn And I watch lonely, drearily - So ...
There was a damned successful Poet; There was a Woman like the Sun. And they were dead. They did not ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreath'd with mine alone, That Destiny's relentless knife At once must ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
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