Christian Saints (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Christian saints, in the congregation, in the faces on the family walls in the stories of them in the pages ...
Poems about helped (30 Poems)
Rahab and the Wall (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She hid the spies and the walls came down Down around the city the people lost but she was saved ...
Reporting In (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We were sent out by the congregation to be His hands, to be their hands Down East; putting on His ...
Matriarchs (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They sit, week on week, year on year, solitary matriarchs Hair of silver, grey, white, spun gold Stoic women, widows, ...
The Grindstone (Robert Frost Poem)
Having a wheel and four legs of its own Has never availed the cumbersome grindstone To get it anywhere that ...
The Self-Seeker (Robert Frost Poem)
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
Count That Day Lost (George Eliot Poem)
If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And, counting, find One ...
The ‘Ole in the Ark (Marriott Edgar Poems)
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
The Message (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
Waking from tender sleep, My neighbour's little child Put out his baby hand to me, Looked in my face, and ...
The Foolish Fir-Tree (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
What mystery pervades a well! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What mystery pervades a well! That water lives so far -- A neighbor from another world Residing in a jar ...
Read — Sweet — how others — strove (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Read -- Sweet -- how others -- strove -- Till we -- are stouter -- What they -- renounced -- ...
I rose — because He sank — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I rose -- because He sank -- I thought it would be opposite -- But when his power dropped -- ...
Had we known the Ton she bore (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Had we known the Ton she bore We had helped the terror But she straighter walked for Freight So be ...
The Sun is gay or stark (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Sun is gay or stark According to our Deed. If Merry, He is merrier -- If eager for the ...
Snowbirds (Peter Conners Poem)
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Pinup (Billy Collins Poem)
The murkiness of the local garage is not so dense that you cannot make out the calendar of pinup drawings ...
Why Washington Retreated (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them ...
An Alphabet of Famous Goops (Gelett Burgess Poem)
AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS. Which you 'll Regard with Yells and Whoops. Futile Acumen! For you Yourselves are Doubtless ...
Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse (Robert Browning Poem)
King Charles, and who'll do him right now? King Charles, and who's ripe for fight now? Give a rouse: here's, ...
A Serenade At The Villa (Robert Browning Poem)
I. That was I, you heard last night, When there rose no moon at all, Nor, to pierce the strained ...
Abt Vogler (Robert Browning Poem)
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Saul (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
Holy-Cross Day (Robert Browning Poem)
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
How Is Your Heart? (Charles Bukowski Poem)
during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores I always had this certain ...
Inferno Canto02 (Dante Alighieri Poem)
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...