Post-Graduate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What do we learn from the roads not taken, of choices made without full exploration? "What if", and "where would ...
What do we learn from the roads not taken, of choices made without full exploration? "What if", and "where would ...
Little All-Aloney's feet Pitter-patter in the hall, And his mother runs to meet And to kiss her toddling sweet, Ere ...
I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly hit him on the head, saying, I hit my ...
'T was far away and long ago, When I was but a dreaming boy, This fairy tale of love and ...
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, -- Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays, Whose amorous light enfolds ...
Long, long ago I heard a little song, (Ah, was it long ago, or yesterday?) So lowly, slowly wound the ...
Who Giants know, with lesser Men Are incomplete, and shy -- For Greatness, that is ill at ease In minor ...
The Summer that we did not prize, Her treasures were so easy Instructs us by departing now And recognition lazy ...
The Lamp burns sure -- within -- Tho' Serfs -- supply the Oil -- It matters not the busy Wick ...
Removed from Accident of Loss By Accident of Gain Befalling not my simple Days -- Myself had just to earn ...
No Man can compass a Despair -- As round a Goalless Road No faster than a Mile at once The ...
It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon -- The Flower -- distinct and Red -- I, passing, thought another Noon ...
How many Flowers fail in Wood -- Or perish from the Hill -- Without the privilege to know That they ...
Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away. How fair ...
Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength -- Impregnability inheres As much through Consciousness Of faith of others ...
This was a Poet -- It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings -- And Attar so immense From ...
I'm ceded -- I've stopped being Theirs -- The name They dropped upon my face With water, in the country ...
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
And this reft house is that the which he built, Lamented Jack ! And here his malt he pil'd, Cautious ...
I THERE is one Mind, one omnipresent Mind, Omnific. His most holy name is Love. Truth of subliming import! with ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
The opposite seeks the opposite and the drop of black grows within white until turning white into black and conversely ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
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