Balance – Stephano’s Lament (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
"Caliban, Trinculo, My insolent mates, Don't you know me?" It is Stephano. Pour me another mug of mead To block ...
"Caliban, Trinculo, My insolent mates, Don't you know me?" It is Stephano. Pour me another mug of mead To block ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
Beyond the pale of memory, In some mysterious dusky grove; A place of shadows utterly, Where never coos the turtle-dove, ...
Whilst thus my pen strives to eternize thee, Age rules my lines with wrinkles in my face, Where in the ...
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, ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
To be forgot by thee Surpasses Memory Of other minds The Heart cannot forget Unless it contemplate What it declines ...
The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man For is it not his Bed -- His Advocate -- his Edifice? ...
Glory is that bright tragic thing That for an instant Means Dominion -- Warms some poor name That never felt ...
An Antiquated Tree Is cherished of the Crow Because that Junior Foliage is disrespectful now To venerable Birds Whose Corporation ...
Above Oblivion's Tide there is a Pier And an effaceless "Few" are lifted there -- Nay -- lift themselves -- ...
A faded Boy -- in sallow Clothes Who drove a lonesome Cow To pastures of Oblivion -- A statesman's Embryo ...
Has life ever dumped you in a heap? Perhaps you've found self belief so strongly reinforcing that doubt never enters ...
Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
I LORD of the grass and hill, Lord of the rain, White Overlord of will, Master of pain, I who ...
Lord of my heart's elation, Spirit of things unseen, Be thou my aspiration Consuming and serene! Bear up, bear out, ...
I Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the sea? LORD, said a flying fish, Below the foundations of ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, ...
I can scare children as the Victorians aimed to do even on an August beach tell a fairy tale one ...
( A Poem in Remembrance) Bhaskar Roy Barman Jimmy, a black, snub-nosed bitch, a jaw shoved out, your eyes throwing ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman Once in my childhood I watched mesmerized a magician magic everything away from before my eyes and ...
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