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Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came Robert Browning	In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk All hope of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Goblin Market Christina Rossetti	And gnash’d her teeth for baulk’d desire, and wept As if her heart would...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Different Meaning Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	That though a man's talk may be lies you must baulk At describing the talker as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lover's Litanies - Eighth Litany. Domina Exaudi. Eric Mackay	All that is past:--the yearning undefined,-- The baulk'd confession that was like a sob-- The sound of singing and the gurgling throb Of lute...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Matthew Prior	Now, if you miss of this epistle, I'm baulk'd again, and may go...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
L'Albatros (The Albatross) Charles Baudelaire	The great wings of the giant baulk his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament John Milton	Clip your phylacteries, though baulk your ears, And succour our just fears, When they shall read this clearly in your charge: ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Playtime Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Giving dull care a cunning miss in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Quis Pro Domino Christopher John Brennan	And tear the Beast, and baulk him of his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dream of Man William Watson	The spleen of fickle seasons That loved to baulk his desire, The breath of hostile climates, The ravage of blight and dearth, The old unrest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Horse of your Heart William Henry Ogilvie	For here's where the raw one will falter and baulk, And here's where the tyro is pulled to a walk, But the horse of your heart never dwells...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Leader That Was Pushed Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Of these fellows who would baulk, While they flood the land with eloquence till mentally you're...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lovers' Walk Roderic Quinn	Neither man nor maid may baulk The river on its way, As it murmurs, day by day, By the singing, scented places of the old...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Men Who Come Behind Henry Lawson	And they’ll trip you up and baulk you in their blind and greedy heat, Like a stupid pup that hasn’t learned to trail behind...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Timer's Steeplechase Andrew Barton Paterson	For fear that he might refuse 'em; He'll try to baulk with you, I'11 be bound; Take whip and spurs to the mean old hound, And don't be afraid to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Open Steeplechase Andrew Barton Paterson	And we flew it like a hurdle, not a baulk and not a blunder, As we charged it all together, and it fairly whistled under, And then some...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sale of Saint Thomas Lascelles Abercrombie	As rotten leaves in fall will baulk a stream; Then my kill'd life the muncht food of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherd's Calendar - August John Clare	Upon a smooth green baulk to ease its toil And feign would spend an idle hour to play With insects strangers to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Silent Member Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	brought up topics that they reckoned he would baulk, He'd remark, 'I never heard of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Swagman's Rest Andrew Barton Paterson	'Twas a reef with never a fault nor baulk That ran from the range's crest, And the richest mine on the Eaglehawk Is known as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Thief And Cordelier. A Ballad Matthew Prior	Find their pains no more baulk'd and their hopes no more...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Victoria Alfred Austin	The bolts and baulk the sentinels of Kings, Came o'er the sea, and in her April heart Folded his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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