The Cantor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He was our cantor, modeling the responsive lines to his homily on faith. Echoing, joining him, in remembering the mantra ...
He was our cantor, modeling the responsive lines to his homily on faith. Echoing, joining him, in remembering the mantra ...
There was a silence, before the applause this morning in church, after the fourteen voices, the lone trumpet, and pianoforte ...
The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it ...
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
AUGUST 17, 1914 The gabled roofs of old Malines Are russet red and gray and green, And o'er them in ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
I love thine inland seas, Thy groves of giant trees, Thy rolling plains; Thy rivers' mighty sweep, Thy mystic canyons ...
Read -- Sweet -- how others -- strove -- Till we -- are stouter -- What they -- renounced -- ...
I rose -- because He sank -- I thought it would be opposite -- But when his power dropped -- ...
I learned -- at least -- what Home could be -- How ignorant I had been Of pretty ways of ...
A prompt -- executive Bird is the Jay -- Bold as a Bailiff's Hymn -- Brittle and Brief in quality ...
We don't cry -- Tim and I, We are far too grand -- But we bolt the door tight To ...
Never for Society He shall seek in vain -- Who His own acquaintance Cultivate -- Of Men Wiser Men may ...
Musicians wrestle everywhere -- All day -- among the crowded air I hear the silver strife -- And -- walking ...
There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim, And never before or again, When the nights are strong ...
When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, The debt of his nature did pay, T' was Edward, the cruel, ...
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy ...
Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their window they with downward eye ...
A slant of sun on dull brown walls, A forgotten sky of bashful blue. Toward God a mighty hymn, A ...
God lay dead in heaven; Angels sang the hymn of the end; Purple winds went moaning, Their wings drip-dripping With ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
The gas was on in the Institute, The flare was up in the gym, A man was running a mineral ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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