Prayers of Peace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Prayers for peace rose up in many tongues from the congregation gathered round a new pole hewn by parishioner hands ...
Prayers for peace rose up in many tongues from the congregation gathered round a new pole hewn by parishioner hands ...
An amber plastic vial sat wedged in the top of a chain link fence held in place by the dull ...
I couldn't see whether they were for a boy or a girl never had that chance all I saw was ...
That is what the bright neon sign read this bit of fun, this whimsy this place Leno would love to ...
Under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781 AT Eutaw Springs the valiant ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
Pan came out of the woods one day,-- His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, The gray ...
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
This salt-stain spot marks the place where men lay down their heads, back to the bench, and hoist nothing that ...
How blind the toil that burrows like the mole, In winding graveyard pathways underground, For Browning's lineage! What if men ...
I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...
W'en daih's chillun in de house, Dey keep on a-gittin' tall; But de folks don' seem to see Dat dey's ...
The Sunrise runs for Both -- The East -- Her Purple Troth Keeps with the Hill -- The Noon unwinds ...
The Future -- never spoke -- Nor will He -- like the Dumb -- Reveal by sign -- a syllable ...
My period had come for Prayer -- No other Art -- would do -- My Tactics missed a rudiment -- ...
He touched me, so I live to know That such a day, permitted so, I groped upon his breast -- ...
A Tooth upon Our Peace The Peace cannot deface -- Then Wherefore be the Tooth? To vitalize the Grace -- ...
Her -- "last Poems" -- Poets -- ended -- Silver -- perished -- with her Tongue -- Not on Record ...
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the ...
When our yacht sails seaward on steady keel And the wind is moist with breath of brine And our laughter ...
The restaurants on hot spring evenings Lie under a dense and savage air. Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
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