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Depression Consumed Me Charmane Joy S Belleza	An insidious beast, Consumes, devours masses That cross its furious...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Being yourself Karolina Marszałkowska	How it blinds while still unseen And how devours you from...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Petrarch to Laura Mary Darby Robinson	Bends my weak frame, my lusty youth devours; Clings to my breast where ev'ry fibre bleeds, And on its vital throne insatiate...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Rhapsody on a Windy Night T. S. Eliot	Slips out its tongue And devours a morsel of rancid...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
THE VERDILLAC (I) Phil Roberts	The verdillac devours all beasts chained or...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Community John Donne	He that but tastes, he that devours, And he that leaves all, doth as well ; Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat ; And when...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Friendly Address To Mrs. Fry In Newgate. Thomas Hood	Giles's, where fierce Sin devours Children, like Time - or rather they both prey On youth together - meanwhile Newgate low'rs...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Message of Peace John Boyle O'Reilly	His war-tax devours his subject's food; He taxes their evil and taxes their good; He taxes their salt till he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Splendor of Love Sherry Caayupan	This bequest by long forgotten ancestry devours, An advertent love gave opulence to one's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Writer Is Never Unemployed Nikhil Parekh	A demon is never sweet; devours millions of innocent in the swirl of its insatiable desire which never dies or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AIDS in Africa Liston Meintjes	the ghost from underneath devours and shrivels into death the silent walking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras To His Lady Samuel Butler	As fast as time and death devours; To whose free-gift the world does owe, Not only earth, but heaven too; For love's the only...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballade François Villon	I know death who devours all I know everything but...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Barren Soul Sherry Caayupan	One minute plays with me nd devours, Just moments, it seemed endless and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
BITTER GAME Norbert Tasev	incerity, it melts into itself false feelings, it devours everything's hyena-smile, killer-stealth, narrow business line: a gun and a dagger that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Black Blood Den Khaustov	Black blood devours poor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Break a Leg Curtis Carmen Davis	Superstitions bring comfort but luck —luck devours if relied on, dies if...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Broken Promises Maria Iesa Angela Testa	Wilt when not showered Promises, like a fire, Devours hope in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cleave Thou the Waves Mathilde Blind	Above thee; while the abysmal sea devours The untold dead insatiate, where it lowers O'er glooms unfathomed, limitless,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cotton Candy Fields tim	It wanes and worsens his thirst The more it devours , the more it melts He vigors in the pursuit of love When the yield ends , the fields...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Creation Ian Sawicki	while she devours...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
CRUEL, CRUEL WINTER Phil Roberts	Just as winter devoured spring, it now devours summer And in December we've almost come to expect...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dark Shadow Barbara DiLorenzo-McCormick	Torn apart, Pulled away, As time devours, Another day, This dark shadow, Follows and corrupts, All my beliefs, It interrupts, Waking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Death Fasonu Adams	Monsters that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Deep are the Stains Nick Gonzales	Fear devours the light of the day, Pain envelopes any destroys any hope that may...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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