A Doppler Greeting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Crossing the street toward home, I gave a quick thank you to the crossing guard. A small voice growing coming ...
Crossing the street toward home, I gave a quick thank you to the crossing guard. A small voice growing coming ...
A Song for My Muse A wish, a prayer, a hope, a promise, shouted in the Highland air. A stone, ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I ...
By June our brook's run out of song and speed. Sought for much after that, it will be found Either ...
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Would you hear a Wild tale of adventure Of a hero who tackled the sea, A super-man swimming the ocean, ...
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
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 of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
In the pleasant time of Pentecost, By the little river Kyll, I followed the angler's winding path Or waded the ...
The Bobolink is gone -- The Rowdy of the Meadow -- And no one swaggers now but me -- The ...
Tales in the beginning didn't begin in the telling, they would have started no doubt, but not without a concrete ...
It happened by Bretton Wood (although that wasn't it's real name) and I recall a clear, grey dawn and the ...
And all at length are gathered in. --LOUISE BOGAN By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
Whenas-(I love that "whenas" word- It shows I am a poet, too,) Q. Horace Flaccus gaily stirred The welkin with ...
Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate, All souls claims to adjudicate Saying to some souls, "Enter in!" "Go to Hell," ...
It was not when temptation came, Swiftly and blastingly as flame, And seared me white with burning scars; When I ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion There was a Boy whose name was Jim; ...
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...
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