Ssh, Pastor Peter is Praying (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Her four-year old body figgeted, struggled to sit still in the pew to quiet her spirit where the sermon was ...
Her four-year old body figgeted, struggled to sit still in the pew to quiet her spirit where the sermon was ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
Do we reach the sea with clocks In our pockets, with the noise of the sea In the sea, or ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse. ...
Sing out, my soul, thy songs of joy; Sing as a happy bird will sing Beneath a rainbow's lovely arch ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, ...
When to the garden of untroubled thought I came of late, and saw the open door, And wished again to ...
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
Taking up the fair Ideal, Just to cast her down When a fracture -- we discover -- Or a splintered ...
I fit for them -- I seek the Dark Till I am thorough fit. The labor is a sober one ...
Good Night! Which put the Candle out? A jealous Zephyr -- not a doubt -- Ah, friend, you little knew ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
Should you be allowed sole privilege of unconscionable martyrdom? This affliction is self-pity brought by suffering as penitent to unrequited ...
(Genesis, v.24) Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
Remember him, whom Passion's power Severely---deeply---vainly proved: Remember thou that dangerous hour, When neither fell, though both were loved. That ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
When all around grew drear and dark, And reason half withheld her ray- And hope but shed a dying spark ...
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
WHITE maiden with the russet hair, Whose garments, through their holes, declare That poverty is part of you, And beauty ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth ...
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