Whiskey Tasting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It was the dark chocolate and the thirty-year old scotch that was the one, so smooth silk sliding down my ...
It was the dark chocolate and the thirty-year old scotch that was the one, so smooth silk sliding down my ...
We were all in prayer heads bowed in the sanctuary as she began to speak to proclaim our petitions speak ...
A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfill, As his Executor, a Kinsman's Will; And to himself his Age repeated o'er, ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
A dented spider like a snow drop white On a white Heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece ...
I went to turn the grass once after one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun. The dew ...
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece ...
I must return to that valley of vision, gather again to me flocks, crescent moon and star; God - let ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...
Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse. ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die, And yet complain'st of his great jealousy; If swol'n with poison, he ...
Death is the supple Suitor That wins at last -- It is a stealthy Wooing Conducted first By pallid innuendoes ...
Travelling on the thumb, it wasn't hard to do, you took the rides that you could get with no regrets ...
Don't talk to me of War or stalk the ground our fabled soldiers died upon, I'm sound of limb and ...
And here the precious dust is laid; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made So fine that it the guest betray'd. Else ...
Know you fair, on what you look; Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes, To kindle ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
My soul is sad, and much dismay'd; See, Lord, what legions of my foes, With fierce Apollyon at their head, ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
ALONG the banks where Babel's current flows Our captive bands in deep despondence stray'd, While Zion's fall in sad remembrance ...
AS slow I climb the cliff's ascending side, Much musing on the track of terror past When o'er the dark ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
'Tis strange to think, there was a time When mirth was not an empty name, When laughter really cheered the ...
I mourn with thee and yet rejoice That thou shouldst sorrow so; With Angel choirs I join my voice To ...
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