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Idiots (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Feeble knats Buzzing in my classroom Inane questions Blank looks On doe-like faces Frozen in time By my knowledge Unable ...

In His Presence (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

In His presence, at His feet longing to hear the master speak Aware of the power, authority, the words of ...

Balkans (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

I often pause to wonder of the two sides of the man from the Balkans who graced my life with ...

An Angel, a Deacon, and a Eunuch (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

What was it that the daily reflection asked? Oh yeah, it was, "If you were set down beside the carriage ...

Child and mother (Eugene Field Poem)

O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you ...

The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...

The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...

Richard Minutolo (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...

For the Better (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)

A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...

To the Recluse, Wei Pa (Tu Fu Poem)

Often in this life of ours we resemble, in our failure to meet, the Shen and Shang constellations, one of ...

Ballad of the Army Carts (Tu Fu Poem)

The carts squeak and trundle, the horses whinny, the conscripts go by, each with a bow and arrows at his ...

Snow (Robert Frost Poem)

The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...

The Tuft of Flowers (Robert Frost Poem)

I went to turn the grass once after one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun. The dew ...

We Astronomers (Rebecca Elson Poem)

We astronomers are nomads, Merchants, circus people, All the earth our tent. We are industrious. We breed enthusiasms, Honour our ...

Four Quartets 2: East Coker (T. S. Eliot Poem)

I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...

Under Siege (Mahmoud Darwish Poem)

Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...

Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)

Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...

Nepenthe (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...

What did They do since I saw Them? (Emily Dickinson Poem)

What did They do since I saw Them? Were They industrious? So many questions to put Them Have I the ...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes (Emily Dickinson Poem)

After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -- The stiff Heart questions was ...

Uncommon common sense (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

The other day I listened to a man on the radio who made uncommon common sense, 'specially since it was ...

Water Babes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

We were water babes, born in the arms of a sparkling brook that patiently took us into its heart. At ...

The Logic Of This State (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...

The Scratch (Raymond Carver Poem)

I woke up with a spot of blood over my eye. A scratch halfway across my forehead. But I'm sleeping ...

The Hermit (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...

The Hermit (Aleister Crowley Poem)