Comforting Parallels (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She spoke joyfully face aglow standing in the kitchen of our church, her hands busy, preparing a meal, for a ...
She spoke joyfully face aglow standing in the kitchen of our church, her hands busy, preparing a meal, for a ...
Paul is calling us, pleading with us to be who we can be, in service to the calling the Great ...
He had a stroke, we had no car. He told his wife to give us the keys, while he was ...
We have heard the news a crisis in the congregation urgent needs for a new appeal a new infusion, a ...
Many hands raised in the hall voices raised to the ceiling, the heavens each one a voice of discernment of ...
I stood before the congregation knowing the financial crunch the hard work, done by so many for so many years, ...
She needed to be protected, provided for, to provide for Naomi, to be the best example of the converted; how ...
Finding a way, to get it all done to balance the interests, to get the access the hearing needed, to ...
Now fie upon him! what is Man, Whose life at best is but a span? When to an inch it ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Silvia, let's from the Crowd retire; For, What to you and me (Who but each other do desire) Is all ...
While Monarchs in stern Battle strove For proud Imperial Sway; Abandon'd to his milder Love, Within a silent peaceful Grove, ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag, ...
En l'an trentiesme do mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues... PIPIT sate upright in her chair Some distance ...
Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
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