Gage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Little man Newly five years old Devil in your blue eyes, Sly smile and infectious laugh Sharing candy with me, ...
Little man Newly five years old Devil in your blue eyes, Sly smile and infectious laugh Sharing candy with me, ...
Today you are ten. But, with that Sly smile and Those knowing eyes, You are Going on twenty. That sparkle ...
She was beautiful elegant, sly, alluring In her rich color long supple body full flowering envy of others less able ...
Hair just so in her pretty pig tails Don't you know "How do I look, daddy?" Drips from her lips ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Those who have touched it or been touched by it Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed, Or ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
Mr. Ramsbottom went to the races, A thing as he'd ne'er done before, And as luck always follers beginners, Won ...
The priest never used blueprints, but worked all the many designs out of his head. Father Wilerus, transplanted Alsatian, built ...
To hang our head -- ostensibly -- And subsequent, to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Of late, in one of those most weary hours, When life seems emptied of all genial powers, A dready ...
1. Dear relatives and friends, when my last breath Grows large and free in air, don't call it death -- ...
A Thurn Among them marble where the man may lie lie chieftains grand in final phase, or pause, 'O rare ...
His malice was a pimple down his good big face, with its sly eyes. I must be sorry Mr Frost ...
Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path--how soft to pace! This May -- ...
I. Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple: leave them as ...
I. Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would ...
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