The Judge was Laughing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I have often wondered, is it better that the judge was laughing would that be my one good moment that ...
I have often wondered, is it better that the judge was laughing would that be my one good moment that ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
What Twigs We held by -- Oh the View When Life's swift River striven through We pause before a further ...
Too few the mornings be, Too scant the nights. No lodging can be had For the delights That come to ...
The Symptom of the Gale -- The Second of Dismay -- Between its Rumor and its Face -- Is almost ...
The Night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single Star -- That often as a Cloud it met ...
I should have been too glad, I see -- Too lifted -- for the scant degree Of Life's penurious Round ...
Deprived of other Banquet, I entertained Myself -- At first -- a scant nutrition -- An insufficient Loaf -- But ...
But little Carmine hath her face -- Of Emerald scant -- her Gown -- Her Beauty -- is the love ...
Of Consciousness, her awful Mate The Soul cannot be rid -- As easy the secreting her Behind the Eyes of ...
Me prove it now -- Whoever doubt Me stop to prove it -- now -- Make haste -- the Scruple! ...
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness -- I'm so accustomed to my Fate -- Perhaps the Other -- Peace ...
Glee -- The great storm is over -- Four -- have recovered the Land -- Forty -- gone down together ...
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
THINK not, 'cause men flattering say You're fresh as April, sweet as May, Bright as is the morning star, That ...
The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men-- For skimming in the ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove, And list the nightingale- she dwells just here. Hush ! let the wood-gate ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
O YE wha are sae guid yoursel', Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell ...
ELLISLAND, 21st Oct., 1789.WOW, but your letter made me vauntie! And are ye hale, and weel and cantie? I ken'd ...
HERE'S to thy health, my bonie lass, Gude nicht and joy be wi' thee; I'll come nae mair to thy ...
ORTHODOX! orthodox, who believe in John Knox, Let me sound an alarm to your conscience: A heretic blast has been ...
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
GUID-MORNIN' to our Majesty! May Heaven augment your blisses On ev'ry new birth-day ye see, A humble poet wishes. My ...
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