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 ...
We heard a new shepherd in the quiet of the congregation listening, hanging on each new word our attention held ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife, Upon my word I do not heed 'em; In bed I lie With ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
O quam te memorem virgo... STAND on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
(Song for the City College of New York) O youngest of the giant brood Of cities far-renowned; In wealth and ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
AUGUST 17, 1914 The gabled roofs of old Malines Are russet red and gray and green, And o'er them in ...
You dare to say with perjured lips, "We fight to make the ocean free"? You, whose black trail of butchered ...
How do we discover an antidote to each other, a faculty to commune in spiteful space? Our bleeding hearts and ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
Thy country, Wilberforce, with just disdain, Hears thee, by cruel men and impious, call'd Fanatic, for thy zeal to loose ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to ...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man ...
Ay, workman, make me a dream, A dream for my love. Cunningly weave sunlight, Breezes, and flowers. Let it be ...
Who hath not felt the influence that so calms The weary mind in summers sultry hours When wandering thickest woods ...
It is that perennial immateriality dwelling between living and dying crouched in the corners and grappling by the hinges only ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
in these red labyrinths of London I find that I have chosen the strangest of all callings, save that, in ...
MADONNA, mistress, I would build for thee An altar deep in the sad soul of me; And in the darkest ...
When, by decree of the supreme power, The Poet appears in this annoyed world, His mother, blasphemous out of horror ...
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