God’s Extravagant Love (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Nothing like the world's judgment giving only when given offering only to those who would repay holding back forgiveness, compassion ...
Nothing like the world's judgment giving only when given offering only to those who would repay holding back forgiveness, compassion ...
In what we say and do living out his commands to love one another as he loved all of us ...
The friends rightly named of the paralytic carried to where Jesus was not stopped by the barrier taking it on ...
Not those who would repay returning the blessing Christ telling them and us the measure of true hospitality Sending invitations, ...
That we would change radically hearing Christ's words his calling to all of us to offer hospitality The richness of ...
Unbowed to those who would oppress us unwilling to be silenced risking all, as our savior did spreading the good ...
Even me Lord?, yes that question lingers, kneeling at the altar rail, a piece of bread, torn from the one ...
Out of our love, the recognition of the miracle of God's grace, his saving and renewing grace we are to ...
I.--TO MISTRESS BARBARA There were three cavaliers, all handsome and true, On Valentine's day came a maiden to woo, And ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
We get on a boat, never mind if it sinks, we pay the captain by throwing him overboard. And when ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk; At rich ...
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
Can life be a blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can life be a blessing if love were away? Ah no! ...
The farthest Thunder that I heard Was nearer than the Sky And rumbles still, though torrid Noons Have lain their ...
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
If dead, we cease to be ; if total gloom Swallow up life's brief flash for aye, we fare As ...
What though the sun had left my sky; To save me from despair The blessed moon arose on high, And ...
The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done, I am, ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
Be kind and tender to the Frog, And do not call him names, As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog," Or likewise ...
Be kind and tender to the Frog, And do not call him names, As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog," Or likewise ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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