The Big Boat, the Big House (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We strive so much, so often, for that big house, the big boat, the toys, the excess of the world ...
Poems about excess (40 Poems)
Providential Provision (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
How unlikely our journey since my unemployment almost two and a half years ago we continue to be amazed, awed, ...
Her Words (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Her words were for me the reason I do this, why I care go into the ring, fight Because I ...
They Couldn’t Wait (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Eager arms pulling mine, transferring the bag with the loot from one hand to another depending on which side of ...
Raining Prayer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We were all in prayer heads bowed in the sanctuary as she began to speak to proclaim our petitions speak ...
Arguing the Essential Nature (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Now this was a conversation, as I learned later, that was not in the right place a high school classroom, ...
Rollman (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They called me rollman the herb and garlic sauce, just too good to leave on the plate that night in ...
Sausage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Forget the frank, Give me the Fenway sausage. Lansdowne or Yawkey, Just give me the street, the crowds, the carts. ...
Unprepared (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Panic fills my chest Angry that I didn't find time That my life got in the way Ever present, tantalizing, ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
Glass (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
O Man! what Inspiration was thy Guide, Who taught thee Light and Air thus to divide; To let in all ...
The Dream Called Life (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca A dream it was in which I found myself. And you ...
The Changeling (Russell Edson Poem)
A man had a son who was an anvil. And then sometimes he was an automobile tire. I do wish ...
Sonnet VII: Love in a Humour (Michael Drayton Poem)
Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the ...
The Dream (John Donne Poem)
Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, ...
The last excuse (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What is left now that we've used the last excuse, what is left to justify excess. The rhetoric at best ...
Seven suits (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Seven tailored suits, matching shoes and socks, a brace of muted ties with subtle breast pocket handkerchiefs descried, you wouldn't ...
Every Time I laugh Aloud (An Ode to Short People) (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Every time I laugh aloud, who springs to mind but Johnnie Howard? Cathartic laughter eases stress which Johnnie causes in ...
Song. Murdering Beauty (Thomas Carew Poem)
I'LL gaze no more on her bewitching face, Since ruin harbours there in every place ; For my enchanted soul ...
Exmoor (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Lost aboard the roll of Kodac- olor that was to have super- seded all need to remember Somerset were: a ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
Colophon (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
Colophon (Aleister Crowley Poem)
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
A Tombless Epitaph (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The Sea (Lewis Carroll Poem)
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
A Sea Dirge (Lewis Carroll Poem)
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...