Opening Prayer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Sustainer God when we are weak, you are strong when we call on you, put our faith, our trust in ...
Sustainer God when we are weak, you are strong when we call on you, put our faith, our trust in ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse. ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
In pride of wit when high desire of fame Gave life and courage to my laboring pen, And first the ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
FEBRUARY, 1917 I never thought again to hear The Oxford thrushes singing clear, Amid the February rain, Their sweet, indomitable ...
1914-1916 What hast thou done, O womanhood of France, Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, What hast thou done, amid ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
We wear scars from our youth, trifling things reflecting those earnings from growing days, of battles raised and wounds worn ...
I had no profound feelings of shock or surprise to those matter-of-fact revelations which spelled the end of this chapter ...
Our efforts are those of the unfortunate; our efforts are like those of the Trojans. Somewhat we succeed; somewhat we ...
Written when the news arrived. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
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 ...
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
See how her hair has thinned: it does not seem / like hair at all, but like the airy moult ...
After the cloud embankments, the lamentation of wind and the starry descent into time, we came to the flashing waters ...
In a vision of the night I saw them, In the battles of the night. 'Mid the roar and the ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
LIFE, believe, is not a dream So dark as sages say; Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day. ...
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