Lessons in the Adversity (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We gain more, learn, grow, it seems, through the grist of adversity the churning stomach, the flushed cheeks, wet furrowed ...
We gain more, learn, grow, it seems, through the grist of adversity the churning stomach, the flushed cheeks, wet furrowed ...
We sat sated in the den ready for pie; but not quite needing to sit a bit, settle our bloated ...
A STURGEON, once, a glutton famed was led To have for supper--all, except the head. With wond'rous glee he feasted ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace & grapple a handgun at stomach level between them. ...
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if offering my stomach, as ...
Your soul was lifted by the wings today Hearing the master of the violin: You praised him, praised the great ...
On Jubilee Day the Ramsbottoms Invited relations to tea, Including young Albert's grandmother- An awkward old . . party, was ...
One day, little Albert Ramsbottom To see 'ow much money 'e'd got Stuck a knife in 'is money-box slot 'ole ...
They will soon be down To one, but he still will be For a little while still will be stopping ...
for tess Tonight there's a crowd in my head: all the things you are not yet. You are words without ...
Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write, And say'st my lines be dull and do not move, I marvel ...
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the ...
Relax. This won't last long. Or if it does, or if the lines make you sleepy or bored, give in ...
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
Colours fade into nameless shades of grey and where the tonsure of bas-relief crudely stands effete, semantic symbolism degrades into ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
These painful, cold athritic fingers have to last much longer yet, they're all I have to keep the pages on ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache ...
Creeps in half wanton, half asleep, One with a fat wide hairless face. He likes love-music that is cheap; Likes ...
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the ...
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