Beginning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Beginning his public life, in a big way, falling into the waters, dying to his former life, rising, baptized, cleansed, ...
Poems about repentance (31 Poems)
Testify to the Light (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Testify to the light, the light of God the father, the light of Christ the son, the light of the ...
Illumined in the womb (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Before he was born, before the Messiah illumined in the womb, filled by the Holy Spirit a prophet born Proclaim ...
Our Wilderness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our voices, our wilderness like John, in the river proclaiming the coming of our Lord, the son of God mightier ...
A Jewish Boy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A wayward Jewish boy separated from family, from his people, from his faith, focused on his wealth, All was lost, ...
Quiet – 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Complete silence, quiet in the sanctuary lights dimmed and heart rates slowed heads bowed in silent, singular, personal prayer hushed ...
Open the Door (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Open the door, step through the threshold enter the house of the father accepting his gift of grace his reconciliation, ...
We Are the Barriers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We are the barriers, the obstacles, the impediments, stumbling blocks to relationship with God naked and confused we live Our ...
Standing in the Water (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He was right there, in the heart of it standing in the water, calling the people chiding the charlatans, the ...
Baptism – haiku – 4 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Down into water rise with repentance of sin born new; adopted January 12, 2008 (Raymond A. Foss)
Uncomfortable Imagery (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The pastor knitted imagery that didn't go quite together that were a bit incongruous, a bit distinct images of the ...
Like a White Hot Coal (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
You were burning within me pouring over me, wave after wave of joy, of repentance, of grace heaped on me, ...
Cup (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Waiting for the cup, the blood of Christ symbolized in the grape juice kneeling at the rail waiting my turn ...
Pitch the Tent (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pitch the Tent on the lawn set up the chairs, the signs, the pulpit flagmen at the roadside, cars parked ...
A Voice for the Wilderness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Crying out for the repentance of sin for the way of the Lord, soon to come to fulfill the prophecies, ...
Turning to Sin and Back to God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
David, oh David how I know your sin your turn to the pleasures the temptation in your eyes weakness of ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Life’s Progress (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
How gayly is at first begun Our Life's uncertain Race! Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun, With which we just ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
I had a guinea golden (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I had a guinea golden -- I lost it in the sand -- And tho' the sum was simple And ...
Legend (Hart Crane Poem)
As silent as a mirror is believed Realities plunge in silence by . . . I am not ready for ...
The Twins (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
The Twins (Aleister Crowley Poem)
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Self-Interrogation (Emily Bronte Poem)
The evening passes fast away, 'Tis almost time to rest; What thoughts has left the vanished day, What feelings, in ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (Lord Byron Poem)
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
Prometheus (Lord Byron Poem)
Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods ...
448. Song-Young Jamie, pride of a’ the plain (Robert Burns Poems)
YOUNG JAMIE, pride of a' the plain, Sae gallant and sae gay a swain, Thro' a' our lasses he did ...
111. Address to Beelzebub (Robert Burns Poems)
LONG life, my Lord, an' health be yours, Unskaithed by hunger'd Highland boors; Lord grant me nae duddie, desperate beggar, ...
440. Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle (Robert Burns Poems)
STILL anxious to secure your partial favour, And not less anxious, sure, this night, than ever, A Prologue, Epilogue, or ...