Nice Teeth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Seven descended on the table Away from the crowd He sat in the middle, Back to the wall Surveying the ...
Seven descended on the table Away from the crowd He sat in the middle, Back to the wall Surveying the ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
A COUNTRYMAN, one day, his calf had lost, And, seeking it, a neighbouring forest crossed; The tallest tree that in ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
"You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Essential Oils -- are wrung -- The Attar from the Rose Be not expressed by Suns -- alone -- It ...
Each Life Converges to some Centre -- Expressed -- or still -- Exists in every Human Nature A Goal -- ...
The power of the Lake lingers still so many years beyond its fascination ending; it was there in the beginning, ...
The last unicorn was never free to chose another ending, the plaintive melody entrained with sweet orchestral strains describing it ...
Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...
Words today are how'd you say, in sad retreat, or obsolete? They slide around conducting sound, deferent to moving ground ...
I KNEW them both upon Miranda's isle, Which is of youth a sea-bound seigniory: Misshapen Caliban, so seeming vile, And ...
The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
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