Saved by Stealth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Deliverers of the people each both under a death threat a dream and a basket into the land of Egypt ...
Poems about threat (31 Poems)
Cutting Through the Tension (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh to take down, the Sword of Damocles, and cut the tension from the air, to slice the stress render ...
An Earthly King (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
If only they understood, really understood that he wasn't a threat; no, he wasn't an earthly king though he was ...
Pilate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A man of power, without control an inquisitor questioned proconsul rebuked, challenged, An innocent king, brought before him, without stain, ...
A King (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A king, not of this world being baited, tested, by the emissary, the local ruler, representative of the Emperor Would ...
Coming to Enjoy Revelations (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
All it takes is faith, real faith and there is no darkness, no fear in the coming judgment, the winnowing ...
We Walked for Peace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Me and the girls, the members of the congregation, walking to the Capitol, under the dome down the street, on ...
Echoes of Words (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He was so right echoing in my mind in the sanctuary in the power of words, especially the power to ...
Out of place (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Color mismatch Movement out of place A short, broke yew, late in the summer Dark green, Leather skin Shiny Broken ...
Snow (Robert Frost Poem)
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
The Human Face (Paul Eluard Poem)
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Apparition (John Donne Poem)
When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead, And that thou think'st thee free From all solicitation from me, ...
The Quiet Eye (Eliza Cook Poem)
THE ORB I like is not the one That dazzles with its lightning gleam; That dares to look upon the ...
The Death of Nicou (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
Interior (Hart Crane Poem)
It sheds a shy solemnity, This lamp in our poor room. O grey and gold amenity, -- Silence and gentle ...
California Plush (Frank Bidart Poem)
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Lord Lundy (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career Lord Lundy from his earliest years Was ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back (John Berryman Poem)
He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back. He thought they was old friends. He felt on the stair where ...
Heretic’s Tragedy, The (Robert Browning Poems)
A MIDDLE-AGE INTERLUDE. ROSA MUNDI; SEU, FULCITE ME FLORIBUS. A CONCEIT OF MASTER GYSBRECHT, CANON-REGULAR OF SAID JODOCUS-BY-THE-BAR, YPRES CITY. ...
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island (Robert Browning Poem)
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song (Conrad Aiken Poem)
No, I shall not say why it is that I love you- Why do you ask me, save for vanity? ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 07: Porcelain (Conrad Aiken Poem)
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03: Haunted Chambers (Conrad Aiken Poem)
The lamplit page is turned, the dream forgotten; The music changes tone, you wake, remember Deep worlds you lived before,-deep ...
526. Song-The Dumfries Volunteers (Robert Burns Poems)
DOES haughty Gaul invasion threat? Then let the louns beware, Sir; There's wooden walls upon our seas, And volunteers on ...
127. Stanzas on Naething (Robert Burns Poems)
TO you, sir, this summons I've sent, Pray, whip till the pownie is freathing; But if you demand what I ...
91. The Vision (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
133. The Brigs of Ayr (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...