Lost (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I crossed the parking lot The man in the convenience store beyond the gas pumps trying to cash already cashed ...
I crossed the parking lot The man in the convenience store beyond the gas pumps trying to cash already cashed ...
On the Banks of the Severn a desperate Maid (Whom some Shepherd, neglecting his Vows, had betray'd,) Stood resolving to ...
He is said to have been the last Red man In Action. And the Miller is said to have laughed-- ...
"Bright with sunny periods some cloud, occasional showers" says the local TV forecast. It has been persistently precipitating for more ...
It were after the Battle of Crecy- The foe all lay dead on the ground- And King Edward went out ...
Because finally the personal is all that matters, we spend years describing stones, chairs, abandoned farmhouses- until we're ready. Always ...
After the pangs of a desperate lover, When day and night I have sighed all in vain, Ah, what a ...
Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens, and the sea takes on ...
Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
It is amazing, while I lay in bed, I had the lines roaring through my head like locusts on the ...
The symbols that we use are T shirts of the dead thoughts of corpses without heads, a rictus without sound ...
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And ...
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And ...
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing your life flash before your eyes while you drown, ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair, Swimming in the pure quiet air! Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while ...
Since you would claim the sources of my thought Recall the meshes whence it sprang unlimed, The reedy traps which ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
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