Spider is a Swear (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On our mission trip, At the camp, each swear costs a quarter. On our job, "spider" is a swear. "Thousands" ...
On our mission trip, At the camp, each swear costs a quarter. On our job, "spider" is a swear. "Thousands" ...
Crisp air Ripe fruit Heavy on the bough. Cool in the hand. Filling my bag. Snap of a McIntosh Tart ...
A hole in the wall shop, Counter and seller Plastic cups and pitchers A bit of rum, a bunch of ...
Bass player back of the room middle of the set Mouthing a message to me "Nice Tie" 'till I got ...
Heads snap at the Yankee white boy Anachronistic and jarring Tie dyed top hat Garish and loud Quilted and heavy ...
TO MISS GRACE KING Down in the old French quarter, Just out of Rampart street, I wend my way At ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
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 ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Mr. Ramsbottom went to the races, A thing as he'd ne'er done before, And as luck always follers beginners, Won ...
I'll tell you the tale of an old country pub As fancied itself up to date, It had the word ...
On young Albert Ramsbottom's birthday His parents asked what he'd like most; He said to see t' Tower of London ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
What is better than leaving a bar in the middle of the afternoon besides staying in it or not having ...
I make His Crescent fill or lack -- His Nature is at Full Or Quarter -- as I signify -- ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived ...
High stretched upon the swinging yard, I gather in the sheet; But it is hard And stiff, and one cries ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
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