A Dangerous Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh, We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer ...
My Portion is Defeat -- today -- A paler luck than Victory -- Less Paeans -- fewer Bells -- The ...
Delight is as the flight -- Or in the Ratio of it, As the Schools would say -- The Rainbow's ...
This was a Poet -- It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings -- And Attar so immense From ...
I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died -- The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in ...
To Jesus, the crown of my hope, My soul is in haste to be gone; O bear me, ye cherubim, ...
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my Soul ...
Hatred and vengence-my eternal portion Scarce can endure delay of execution- Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
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ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'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! ...
Missolonghi, Jan. 22, 1824 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move: Yet, though ...
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
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