Menemsha (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A village where time forgot to reset the clock Where homes are clad in grey hiding a joy in starting ...
A village where time forgot to reset the clock Where homes are clad in grey hiding a joy in starting ...
Play that my knee was a calico mare Saddled and bridled for Bumpville; Leap to the back of this steed, ...
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name ...
There's a dear little home in Good-Children street - My heart turneth fondly to-day Where tinkle of tongues and patter ...
Tis true of courage I'm no mistress No Boadicia nor Thalestriss Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter For such ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Thy summer voice, Musketaquit, Repeats the music of the rain; But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee, as thou through ...
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
I hang about the streets all day, At night I hang about; I sleep a little when I may, But ...
The mind, with its own eyes and ears, May for these others have no care; No matter where this body ...
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Whose Pink career may have a close Portentous as our own, who knows? To imitate these Neighbors fleet In awe ...
Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy -- For Greatness, that is ill at ease In minor ...
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart -- That knows -- and does not know -- And tosses like a Fleet of ...
Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were ...
Joy to have merited the Pain -- To merit the Release -- Joy to have perished every step -- To ...
How fleet -- how indiscreet an one -- How always wrong is Love -- The joyful little Deity We are ...
Frigid and sweet Her parting Face -- Frigid and fleet my Feet -- Alien and vain whatever Clime Acrid whatever ...
Endanger it, and the Demand Of tickets for a sigh Amazes the Humility Of Credibility -- Recover it to Nature ...
Dust is the only Secret -- Death, the only One You cannot find out all about In his "native town." ...
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
I LORD of the grass and hill, Lord of the rain, White Overlord of will, Master of pain, I who ...
Lord of my heart's elation, Spirit of things unseen, Be thou my aspiration Consuming and serene! Bear up, bear out, ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
A Mother's breast: Safe refuge from her childish fears, From childish troubles, childish tears, Mists that enshroud her dawning years! ...
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