Smells of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Freshly tilled soil, rot on the forest floor chocolate bubbling on the stove Gardenias, violets, garlic breath Sulphur of the ...
Freshly tilled soil, rot on the forest floor chocolate bubbling on the stove Gardenias, violets, garlic breath Sulphur of the ...
You were my first love Gone when I was thirteen On May Day, your day. Your smiling face and the ...
I.--TO MISTRESS BARBARA There were three cavaliers, all handsome and true, On Valentine's day came a maiden to woo, And ...
See, what a wonderful garden is here, Planted and trimmed for my Little-Oh-Dear! Posies so gaudy and grass of such ...
WEEP no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone: Violets pluck'd, the sweetest rain Makes ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
Erewhile, before the world was old, When violets grew and celandine, In Cupid's train we were enrolled: Erewhile! Your little ...
When April scatters charms of primrose gold Among the copper leaves in thickets old, And singing skylarks from the meadows ...
When primroses are out in Spring, And small, blue violets come between; When merry birds sing on boughs green, And ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...
I first tasted under Apollo's lips, love and love sweetness, I, Evadne; my hair is made of crisp violets or ...
Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro' the village -- Sauntered ...
When Roses cease to bloom, Sir, And Violets are done -- When Bumblebees in solemn flight Have passed beyond the ...
One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There's only one recorded, But both belong to ...
IN the tavern of my heart Many a one has sat before, Drunk red wine and sung a stave, And, ...
He wrapped them carefully, neatly in costly green silk. Roses of ruby, lilies of pearl, violets of amethyst. As he ...
My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, ...
There was a land where lived no violets. A traveller at once demanded : "Why?" The people told him: "Once ...
Behold, the grave of a wicked man, And near it, a stern spirit. There came a drooping maid with violets, ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
The blue bell is the sweetest flower That waves in summer air; Its blossoms have the mightiest power To soothe ...
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
When I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind, I light my lamp in the evening: My ...
When I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind, I light my lamp in the evening: My ...
Among these latter busts we count by scores, Half-emperors and quarter-emperors, Each with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest, Loricand low-browed ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
Of what she said to me that night-no matter. The strange thing came next day. My brain was full of ...
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