Boot in einer Flasche (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Okay, for those who don't speak German, the title of the poem is "A Boat in a Bottle" and that's ...
Okay, for those who don't speak German, the title of the poem is "A Boat in a Bottle" and that's ...
Mom was at home Mrs. Foss was The vacation bible school teacher, The den mother, The class mother. They were ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble ...
Love's Lunacy Why do I speak of joy, or write of love, When my heart is the very den of ...
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
W'en daih's chillun in de house, Dey keep on a-gittin' tall; But de folks don' seem to see Dat dey's ...
Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah, Frost a-comin' in de night, Hicka' nuts an' wa'nuts fallin', Possum keepin' out o' sight. ...
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then, But ...
The Frost of Death was on the Pane -- "Secure your Flower" said he. Like Sailors fighting with a Leak ...
Oh Future! thou secreted peace Or subterranean woe -- Is there no wandering route of grace That leads away from ...
A Burdock -- clawed my Gown -- Not Burdock's -- blame -- But mine -- Who went too near The ...
My thoughts are like the boots randomly arrayed in the rack outside the window, some in pairs neatly stacked, comfortably ...
(Mark, xi.17) Thy mansion is the Christian's heart, O Lord, Thy dwelling place secure! Bid the unruly throng depart, And ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men-- For skimming in the ...
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
Well hast thou spoken, and yet, not taught A feeling strange or new; Thou hast but roused a latent thought, ...
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