One Page Shakespeare (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Trying to explain who Shakespeare was what his plays were, what they were about, to a ten year old on ...
Trying to explain who Shakespeare was what his plays were, what they were about, to a ten year old on ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name; A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame; But ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Nothing to say to all those marriages! She had made three herself to three of his. The score was even ...
A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, ...
'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...
In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame, From whom that sea did first derive her name, The blessed bed whereon ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhatten Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now I will allow, Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee, When ...
Her face was in a bed of hair, Like flowers in a plot -- Her hand was whiter than the ...
How Human Nature dotes On what it can't detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct -- ...
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, ...
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
When He appoints to meet thee, go thou forth- It matters not If south or north, Bleak waste or sunny ...
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot-- The veriest school Of peace; and ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
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