There (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The heart quickens. My mind reels. Meet me There. Moments of love. Sanctuary in the storm. Tenderness and closeness. Safety ...
Poems about wanting (51 Poems)
Marcy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pandora's Box Burst open a year ago today Because you gave us an assignment To read a poem. I took ...
Barry in the Morning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He's on the stereo Smoky, sultry, Words dripping After waking, Start of day You in my arms Smell of you ...
Thinking Cog (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Why she asked Innocent, or was it? Cringe of every curmudgeon Fear of every manager Like Charlie in Modern Times ...
In His Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I am waiting on the Lord For his answer to prayer In His Time; Not my own Human passions And ...
Butter Melting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She marched into the kitchen all purposeful and proud stepstool from the bathroom in her four-year old arms "I'm going ...
Yearning to Bloom (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Eager, poised and ready unfurling in the hot July sun wanting, needing to join her sisters and brothers in the ...
A New Shepherd (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We heard a new shepherd in the quiet of the congregation listening, hanging on each new word our attention held ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
The Trial by Existence (Robert Frost Poem)
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
A Minor Bird (Robert Frost Poem)
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands ...
The Recumbent Posture (Marriott Edgar Poem)
The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what's called, confined to his bed, With a tight kind of pain in ...
The Battle of Hastings (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Sam Goes To It (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
Journey Of The Magi (T. S. Eliot Poem)
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
Summons To Love (William Drummond Poem)
Phoebus, arise! And paint the sable skies With azure, white, and red: Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed That ...
Sonnet XXII: Love, Banish’d Heav’n (Michael Drayton Poems)
Love, banish'd Heav'n, on Earth was held in scorn, Wand'ring abroad in need and beggary, And wanting friends, though of ...
Sonnet XXXVIII: Sitting Alone, Love (Michael Drayton Poem)
Sitting alone, Love bids me go and write; Reason plucks back, commanding me to stay, Boasting that she doth still ...
I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone (Stephen Dunn Poem)
The dogs greet me, I descend into their world of fur and tongues and then my wife and I embrace ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
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, ...
I know lives, I could miss (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I know lives, I could miss Without a Misery -- Others -- whose instant's wanting -- Would be Eternity -- ...
Free from intrusion (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You awaken this time with a welcoming smile, an experience sublime, not a dream - the boner from Hell has ...
What The Doctor Said (Raymond Carver Poem)
He said it doesn't look good he said it looks bad in fact real bad he said I counted thirty-two ...
The Retired Cat (William Cowper Poem)
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
MOTIF (Graham Burchell Poem)
Three notes I allowed aloud to sum the August beachiness of herring gull railway pigeon otherwise birdless fishless conjoin - ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The Smile on the Face of a Kouros (William Bronk Poem)
This boy, of course, was dead, whatever that might mean. And nobly dead. I think we should feel he was ...
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 ...