A Thud and a Squish (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The pastor had them enthralled, And us too, describing the Shaping of each of us, Using the words of the ...
Poems about vessel (36 Poems)
An Earthenware Jar (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The potter shapes the clay each one a precious creature unique and set apart known from before forming from within ...
Putty in His Hands (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They were like putty In his hands, transfixed Watching intently, The movement of his hands, Manipulating, molding, changing, Rechanging the ...
A Call Affirmed (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They heard His call through her Knowing she was asked, by the Creator to follow this path, at this time ...
Presentable (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I saw you before You were "presentable" White chest hair, almost clear Open mouth, broken tooth Eyes at half-mast Like ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
Man’s Injustice Towards Providence (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Statuary (Nick Flynn Poem)
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
Gunner Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
Growltiger’s Last Stand (T. S. Eliot Poems)
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
Song (John Davidson Poem)
THE boat is chafing at our long delay, And we must leave too soon The spicy sea-pinks and the inborne ...
Sonnet XXX: Those Priests (Michael Drayton Poem)
To the Vestals Those priests which first the Vestal fire begun, Which might be borrow'd from no earthly flame, Devis'd ...
Ships that Pass in the Night (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I ...
If wrecked upon the Shoal of Thought (Emily Dickinson Poem)
If wrecked upon the Shoal of Thought How is it with the Sea? The only Vessel that is shunned Is ...
In Harbor (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
A young man, twenty eight years old, on a vessel from Tenos, Emes arrived at this Syrian harbor with the ...
Ye Flags of Picadilly (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
Ye flags of Piccadilly, Where I posted up and down, And wished myself so often Well away from you and ...
All Is Well (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
Whate'er you dream, with doubt possessed, Keep, keep it snug within your breast, And lay you down and take your ...
On The Loss Of The Royal George (William Cowper Poem)
Written when the news arrived. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave ...
The Castaway (William Cowper Poem)
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
A Birthday (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
A Birthday (Aleister Crowley Poem)
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Human Life (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
If dead, we cease to be ; if total gloom Swallow up life's brief flash for aye, we fare As ...
Fit the Second ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Marginalia (Billy Collins Poem)
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And ...
Power of Love (Anne Bronte Poem)
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...