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A Lawyerly Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

It always seems, wherever I turn we are the bad guys, the ones in the way the ones asking Him ...

Passim (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

The Bible, the ultimate frequently cited authority, the basis for the arguments over and over again. A legal term of ...

Gravida (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

She was a gravida Now, Don't get upset, that's the technical the term of art so the records said What ...

Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)

YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...

Alcidor (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)

While Monarchs in stern Battle strove For proud Imperial Sway; Abandon'd to his milder Love, Within a silent peaceful Grove, ...

Blight (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...

Initial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...

Celestial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...

Sonnet XXVIII: To Such As Say (Michael Drayton Poem)

To such as say thy love I overprize, And do not stick to term my praises folly, Against these folks, ...

Favrile (Mark Doty Poem)

Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...

Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe A Traitor is the Bee His service to the newest Grace Present continually His ...

I’m saying every day (Emily Dickinson Poems)

I'm saying every day "If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" -- I'd do this way -- And so I ...

I play at Riches — to appease (Emily Dickinson Poem)

I play at Riches -- to appease The Clamoring for Gold -- It kept me from a Thief, I think, ...

Our journey had advanced — (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- ...

Exhilaration is the Breeze (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Exhilaration is the Breeze That lifts us from the Ground And leaves us in another place Whose statement is not ...

Always Mine! (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Always Mine! No more Vacation! Term of Light this Day begun! Failless as the fair rotation Of the Seasons and ...

Behind Me — dips Eternity — (Emily Dickinson Poem)

Behind Me -- dips Eternity -- Before Me -- Immortality -- Myself -- the Term between -- Death but the ...

At Half past Three, a single Bird (Emily Dickinson Poem)

At Half past Three, a single Bird Unto a silent Sky Propounded but a single term Of cautious melody. At ...

Your noble reign (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

The man whose term we would remember as our longest, constant serving Head of State, besides the late Sir Robert ...

Partisanship and politics (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...

Nero’s Term (Constantine P. Cavafy Poems)

Nero was not worried when he heard the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle. "Let him fear the seventy three years." ...

The Road to Roundabout (G. K. Chesterton Poem)

Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...

A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street (Amy Clampitt Poem)

While the sun stops, or seems to, to define a term for the indeterminable, the human aspect, here in the ...

A Hermit Thrush (Amy Clampitt Poem)

Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...

The Twins (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...

Prologue to Rodin in Rime (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...

The Twins (Aleister Crowley Poem)