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A Psalm Of Fortitude Joseph Furphy	(He often baskets mine) And balks you of renown and pay, Squirm not, but laugh, and darkly say, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Babel: The Gate Of The God Gordon Bottomley	Though piled-up bricks should pulp the sappy balks, Weight generate a secrecy of heat, Cankerous charring, crevices' fronds of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beowulf's Expedition To Heort Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Had in his keeping, Bear o'er the balks The bright shields, The war-weapons...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brothers James Weldon Johnson	Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Sing The Body Electric Walt Whitman	The love of the Body of man or woman balks account--the body itself balks account; That of the male is perfect, and that of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The City Of Slaughter (excerpt) Hayyim Nahman Bialik	That bellows, and before the altar balks, I will make hard thy heart, yea, I Will not permit a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Journey of the Heart: A Pilgrim's Odyssey Mawphniang Napoleon	The one insisting you must rush, make speed Who balks at any progress slow styled Hush now impetuous one, still impatience Walk on with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Journey of the Heart: A Pilgrim's Odyssey Part II Mawphniang Napoleon	The one insisting you must rush, make speed Who balks at any progress slow styled Hush now impetuous one, still impatience Walk on with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Next, Please Philip Larkin	Of disappointment, for, though nothing balks Each big approach, leaning with brasswork prinked, Each rope...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Raptors Chase Kurt Philip Behm	falcon stalks Vision prescient it never balks A broken wing once clipped in fear the raptors chase —with canids near (The New...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
She's a Certain Slant-Hating White CthulhuIsKing	She may teach it—racist— Thesaurus she balks— A chalkboard crucifiction turned Social justice...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Seven Old Men Charles Baudelaire	Whoever smiles at my anxiety, and balks at shivering, the un-fraternal, consider then, despite their senility, those seven vile...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherds Calendar - March John Clare	Of rushy balks that bend the lands between While close behind em struts the nauntling crow And daws whose...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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