Coming Thunder (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
First storm of the year thickening sky, heavy air darkening below the blue weight on the limbs the leaves turned ...
First storm of the year thickening sky, heavy air darkening below the blue weight on the limbs the leaves turned ...
A Maundy Thursday, dressed in black feeling more acutely perhaps meaning in the stripping, the solemn steps darkening the sanctuary, ...
I saw a glimpse today of the shining city on the hill, the city with the streets of gold high ...
Above the tree line beside the silhouette of the dark church a contrail of a jet falling toward the horizon ...
People, random strangers Cool stores Hot blacktop Eyes turn Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing ...
People, random strangers Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing Darkening sky Deep grays Strong edges ...
A pause on the bridge, a break in my day, as night came A stop to drink in the murmur, ...
Ephemeral denizen of the dawn Emblazoned on the waking An aerosol archaeopteryx Captured for a twinkling On the heavens Feathers ...
No one's timetable governed our steps up with the first light long before the sun rose over the slate blue ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
The flock of pigeons rises over the roof, and just beyond them, the shimmering asphalt fields gather their dull colored ...
O who will walk a mile with me Along life's merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, Who ...
Silvered in the dying light she lies a silent sleeping twinkle coloured Eve who heaves and breathes a sinuous sigh ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
... Among the shadows of the groaning elms, amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves ... ... Once there were ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow ; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And ...
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow ; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And ...
Your hands, my dear, adorable, Your lips of tenderness -- Oh, I've loved you faithfully and well, Three years, or ...
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
Now that I have your face by heart, I look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
It was the blue & plain ones. I forget all that. My own clouds darkening hung. Besides, it wasn't serious. ...
Cedars and the westward sun. The darkening sky. A man alone Watches beside the fallen wall The evening multitudes of ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, ...
In memory of Marjorie Carr Stevens Each day with so much ceremony begins, with birds, with bells, with whistles from ...
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