Jessie (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
You were my first love Gone when I was thirteen On May Day, your day. Your smiling face and the ...
You were my first love Gone when I was thirteen On May Day, your day. Your smiling face and the ...
Good editor Dana--God bless him, we say-- Will soon be afloat on the main, Will be steaming away Through the ...
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
I thought myself indeed secure, So fast the door, so firm the lock; But, lo! he toddling comes to lure ...
POOR River, now thou'rt almost dry, What Nymph, or Swain, will near thee lie? Since brought, alas! to sad Decay, ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca A dream it was in which I found myself. And you ...
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable, And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy. I look up our southern ...
The green grass is growing, The morning wind is in it, 'Tis a tune worth the knowing, Though it change ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Count not the cost of honour to the dead! The tribute that a mighty nation pays To those who loved ...
The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches by the tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream ...
I love the church: its labara, its silver vessels, its candleholders, the lights, the ikons, the pulpit. Whenever I go ...
The Sun revolving on his axis turns, And with creative fire intensely burns; Impell'd by forcive air, our Earth supreme, ...
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; O bear me, ye cherubim, ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
The Saviour, what a noble flame Was kindled in his breast, When hasting to Jerusalem, He march'd before the rest. ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
O God! if this indeed be all That Life can show to me; If on my aching brow may fall ...
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