Pursued, not merely Followed (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What an idea, a gift, a different way of seeing the familiar, the hopeful the treasured scripture He told us ...
What an idea, a gift, a different way of seeing the familiar, the hopeful the treasured scripture He told us ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
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 ...
The monster has escaped from the dungeon where he was kept by the Baron, who made him with knobs sticking ...
Brown lived at such a lofty farm That everyone for miles could see His lantern when he did his chores ...
A tree's leaves may be ever so good, So may its bar, so may its wood; But unless you put ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House -- And leave a Day at every Door A ...
The Night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single Star -- That often as a Cloud it met ...
Remembrance has a Rear and Front -- 'Tis something like a House -- It has a Garret also For Refuse ...
Not any more to be lacked -- Not any more to be known -- Denizen of Significance For a span ...
If the foolish, call them "flowers" -- Need the wiser, tell? If the Savants "Classify" them It is just as ...
I had a daily Bliss I half indifferent viewed Till sudden I perceived it stir -- It grew as I ...
Dear March -- Come in -- How glad I am -- I hoped for you before -- Put down your ...
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and ...
EXCERPT] ... O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
"Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; Often have I been to it, Even to its highest ...
The Banker's Fate They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
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