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Bonehead Bill Robert William Service	Fair froze me wiv affright: To fink wot God would say about The bloke I corpsed last...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Bells Edgar Allan Poe	How they scream out their...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Seven Sisters William Wordsworth	But now, upstarting with affright At noise of man and steed, Away they fly to left, to rightÑ Of your fair household,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Dead Sea-Gull Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	Nor all the elements affright, Flashing like thought across the main, Mocking the hurricane, Screaming with shrill...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad James Whitcomb Riley	When I awoke to reason I shuddered with affright Till I felt my mother's presence With a thrill of wild...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Ballad With A Serious Conclusion James Whitcomb Riley	When I awoke to reason I shuddered with affright Till I felt my mother's presence With a thrill of wild delight - Till, amid a shower of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Calendar of Sonnets: March Helen Hunt Jackson	The violets raise Their heads without affright, without amaze, And sleep through all the din, as sleeps a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Christmas Carol Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Goblin Christmas Anonymous Americas	They told how at night, in dire affright The Moon had hid in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A panegyric to sir lewis pemberton Robert Herrick	Keeping no currish waiter to affright, With blasting eye, the appetite, Which fain would waste upon thy cates, but that The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Poem On The Last Day - Book III Edward Young	With what distress, and glarings of affright, They shock the heart, and turn away the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prayer { For Those Who Shall Return} Katharine Tynan	Be they innocent of all Memories that affright,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Queen Five Summers Old. Victor-Marie Hugo	" Even love flows from her, mingled with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Year's Burden -- 1870 Algernon Charles Swinburne	Even thought, that fire nor iron can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
After-Glow. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey	And hid my eyes, and shivered with affright At thought of coming...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All's Well Francis William Bourdillon	There are widows weeping, and babes affright, And a ceaseless burial...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alleluia Height Michael Earls	Too poor for stray regret Where crowded streets affright She stood in beggary, Unknown, though faithful to her high degree,-- O, then her praise...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Appeal Algernon Charles Swinburne	Not for revenge or affright, Pride, or a tyrannous lust, Cast from thee the crown of thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Appeal To Paris Charles Mackay	Dreading the sound, shall farrow in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AN ELEGY Upon the immature loss of the most vertuous Lady Anne Rich Henry King	What horrid forms of darkness must affright The sickly world, hast'ning to that long night Where it must...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode on the Piece Helen Maria Williams	She gazes now with wild affright,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Old Song Re-sung Padraic Colum	And never wrist gave me more affright, Till I lay low upon the floor Where she stood holding the candle...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Auguries of Innocence William Blake	Does the Rising Sun...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Azrael's Count Rudyard Kipling	Fearless she lows past the camp, our fires affright her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballad Of The Banished And Returning Count Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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