Palmetto (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A slower pace On the Banks Palmettos sway Translucent green Or tawny papyrus brown Mesmerize A northerner Away from the ...
A slower pace On the Banks Palmettos sway Translucent green Or tawny papyrus brown Mesmerize A northerner Away from the ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over ...
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
is what we called her. The story was that her father had thrown Drano at her which was probably true, ...
The Soul should always stand ajar That if the Heaven inquire He will not be obliged to wait Or shy ...
Of Yellow was the outer Sky In Yellower Yellow hewn Till Saffron in Vermilion slid Whose seam could not be ...
I watched the Moon around the House Until upon a Pane -- She stopped -- a Traveller's privilege -- for ...
I saw no Way -- The Heavens were stitched -- I felt the Columns close -- The Earth reversed her ...
There came a Day at Summer's full, Entirely for me -- I thought that such were for the Saints, Where ...
I have been spiritually poisoned by the unclean, in ignorance blessed their springs. In consequence I withered and drifted down ...
cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod stove-warmed flatiron slid under the covers, mornings a damascene- sealed bizarrerie of fernwork ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
I knew that James Whistler was part of the Paris scene, but I was still surprised when I found the ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman When the world itself looked exhausted, revolving round the sun; when a bumble-bee sounded tired of humming ...
Another time. It was still night. Water slid Silently on the black ground, And I knew that my only task ...
Voices out of the shade that cried, And long noon in the hot calm places, And children's play by the ...
In a blue series towards his sleepy eyes they slid like wonder, women tall & small, of every shape & ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
On the unbreathing sides of hills they play, a specklike girl and boy, alone, but near a specklike house. The ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
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