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Forever Dye For The Puppet Show Adam Roachford	An encore after is before detain A box of wooden such of twinkled view So pure in spite of unrequited blot So free to me...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Gamophobia Benjamin Winter	Now I'm sure I really must detain, I wont go...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Fan : A Poem. Book I. John Gay	Nor shall Bermudas long the muse detain, Whose fragrant forests bloom in Waller's strain, Where breathing sweets from every field...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A British PHILIPPIC Mark Akenside	No more should lazy Luxury detain Our martial Youth; no more should Britain's Sons Sit meanly passive, and regardless hear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Strange City William Henry Davies	Would still detain her knight gone cold in love; It was an iceberg with long arms unseen, That felt the deep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Act V Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Still to detain him; then some twenty steps Of iron staircse winding round and down, And ending in a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Saints Edith Wharton	Or with tragic gesture would detain us From the age-long search for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Audacity of Defiance: Climbing to Unseen Heights Mawphniang Napoleon	Let not silence dishearten, nor doubt detain- Ever the peak calls through the mist and rain To rouse bold...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
CLOS TO MOZZARELLA: PREFER TO COMMIT SUCCESSFUL SUICIDE TO BRINGING CHILD FROM SWEDISH BLOOD-.EVEN Yukunno Ghirmay	FACT OF LIFE: IMPOSSIBLE TO DETAIN ANTI-STRAIGHT WITH STRAIGHT OR...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Daphne's Visit William Shenstone	My Daphne with your notes detain, Or I have rear'd my grove in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Deadly Thoughts Adolfo Camacho	This may bring horror and pain Even if it you detain Then come the earthquakes It only comes to the insane Happiness comes to the sane But if...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Design and Performance Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Aid me, of those rich visions to detain All I may grasp; until thou seest fulfilled, While time and strength allow, my hope to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Drum-Taps Walt Whitman	to part--yet not a word does she speak to detain him;) The tumultuous escort--the ranks of policemen preceding, clearing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eclogue the Second Hassan William Taylor Collins	``Farewell the youth whom sighs could not detain, ``Whom Zara's breaking heart implored in vain; ``Yet as thou goest, may every blast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Egotism Jane Taylor	Few talkers can detain themselves to weigh The true impression made by what they say ; And of all talkers, egotists...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol William Lisle Bowles	And on the lids the glistening tear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Farewell My Love conductor	A love that death cannot...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Farewell. Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney	Fare thee well, we've no wish to detain thee, For the loved ones are bidding thee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From Pent-up Aching Rivers Walt Whitman	the prostitute, who detain'd me when I went to the city; Singing the song of prostitutes; Renascent with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Garden Francies Robert Browning	But do not detain me now; for she lingers There, like sunshine over the ground, And ever I see her soft...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Give All To Love Ralph Waldo Emerson	Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hem, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
God Didnt Promise Wendy Bradley	the end we don't try to detain, God grants to our loved one a deserving relief, precious memories are all that remain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
God's plan Wil Trejo	Conversational and physical gestures no one can detain from taking its reality A Soul ascension, as mystical ecstasy pressures are now...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How noteless Men, and Pleiads, stand Emily Dickinson	O'ertakenless, as the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I'm Like The Moth Animus Vox	So please, Don't try to detain my thoughts They're just as precious as the time (Written on September 2,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)