Closeup (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
My eye catches, notices A small detail A flower, berry, bug Flake, fragment Texture or color drawn to it Hold ...
My eye catches, notices A small detail A flower, berry, bug Flake, fragment Texture or color drawn to it Hold ...
Electricity in the air Charged particles Sparks between us Clap of thunder Heavy rain Beats on the metal roof Blackout ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...
I count my treasures o'er with care.-- The little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue, A ...
I thought myself indeed secure, So fast the door, so firm the lock; But, lo! he toddling comes to lure ...
COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Lock me in delight awhile; Let some pleasing dreams beguile All my fancies; ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
I. LONELINESS Her Word One ought not to have to care So much as you and I Care when the ...
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
It went many years, But at last came a knock, And I though of the door With no lock to ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
Image of her whom I love, more than she, Whose fair impression in my faithful heart Makes me her medal, ...
Some man unworthy to be possessor Of old or new love, himself being false or weak, Thought his pain and ...
The Way I read a Letter's -- this -- 'Tis first -- I lock the Door -- And push it ...
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise As in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain ...
If I may have it, when it's dead, I'll be contented -- so -- If just as soon as Breath ...
Dear March -- Come in -- How glad I am -- I hoped for you before -- Put down your ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river And the flags where the butter-bump hides in forever; Farewell to ...
Blake saw a treeful of angels at Peckham Rye, And his hands could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart. ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
I said fate plays a game without a score, and who needs fish if you've got caviar? The triumph of ...
This youth too long has heard the break Of waters in a land of change. He goes to see what ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Chorus-O can ye labour lea, young man, O can ye labour lea? It fee nor bountith shall us twine Gin ...
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