Wanting Tangible Proof (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
How like Thomas unable to believe needing some tangible proof of God's love for him needing to touch his side ...
How like Thomas unable to believe needing some tangible proof of God's love for him needing to touch his side ...
The humble carpenter not riding in a chariot walking, dust on his feet journeying with the Lord Rejecting the king ...
From the palms triumphantly entering his city the crowds shouting hosanna welcoming the king but the joy did not last ...
Not the common people the ones who had cried Hosannah who had laid their cloaks, the palms when he had ...
Bewildered standing there cloaked in sadness the rich man before the Christ unable to follow Following the ancient law the ...
Choosing, not to punish to judge my actions to cast any, into the fiery pit instead choosing, to offer himself ...
Our lives, a lesson learning the choices of life understanding the rich man the disciple, the follower his sorrow, not ...
Ordinary people, extraordinary things things they could not do done done in the name of Jesus, the martyred king the ...
A groundswell, a crack in the dyke seeds of revolt, in their words, their resolve Unwilling to be silent, to ...
(in Them) The Pentecost flame, the spirit burning in them, unable, unwilling to stop proclaiming the truth of the risen ...
A higher authority gave them a charge for them they would not silence Proclaiming his name, healing in his mighty ...
Like floodgates, opening with a storm the fire of Pentecost, the conversion spreading of the flames, the believers growing in ...
She hung on the ladder's rails unwilling to leave their safety out into the lake, even in my arms Slowly ...
Vivid memory Twenty-five years past Her hands Old, blotched, tired Gripped the sheet metal Chair below her White knuckles Held ...
Thoughts and memories Baggage carried for way too long How to shed pain and confusion When so much time has ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain --and back in rain. I have ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Love is no more. It died as the mind dies: the pure desire Relinquishing the blissful form it wore, The ...
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair! Though cold ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
DWELLER in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation! mark, Who in widow-weeds appears, Laden with unhonour'd years, Noosing with care ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
And you, ye stars, Who slowly begin to marshal, As of old, in the fields of heaven, Your distant, melancholy ...
'TIS Friendship's pledge, my young, fair Friend, Nor thou the gift refuse, Nor with unwilling ear attend The moralising Muse. ...
The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc, Her snaky hair brandishing in the winds of Enitharmon; ...
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