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The Ghosts That Have Not Died Kay Harlos	The ghosts who are not dead Embalm their hopes to forget Maybe in the next life they’ll find Purpose in their right mind But...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Culmination Michael Berry	Before they are buried however, They are embalmed, They will remain fresh when they feel the need to rise, Exactly how I remembered...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
A Definition of Medicine Seema Ali	And heals it with ointments which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Monumental Column John Webster	To have their corpse embalm'd to keep them sweet, Much more they ought to have their fame exprest In Homer, though it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell James Thomson	How as in years so he in virtue grew; Embalm his fame in never dying verse, As a just tribute to his doleful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Portrait. Nathaniel Parker Willis	She's noble - noble - one to keep Embalm'd for dreams of fever'd sleep - An eye for nature - taste refin'd, Perception swift, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ashes Of Soldiers Walt Whitman	Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At Fredericksburg—Dec. 13, 1862 John Boyle O'Reilly	For words of song embalm the hero...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Departmental Robert Frost	Embalm him with ichor of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy IV: The Perfume John Donne	All my perfumes I give most willingly T' embalm thy father's corse;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Endimion and Phoebe (excerpts) Michael Drayton	And from the azure starry-painted sky Embalm'd the banks with precious lunary: That now her Maenalus she quite forsook, And unto...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From Faust - III. Chorus Of Angels Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Rich spices and myrrh, To embalm Him we brought; His corpse to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Good Tidings; Or News From The Farm Robert Bloomfield	May all the sweets of meadows and of kine Embalm, O...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure Alfred Lord Tennyson	No longer caring to embalm In dying songs a dead regret, But like a statue solid-set, And moulded in colossal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure Alfred Lord Tennyson	No longer caring to embalm In dying songs a dead regret, But like a statue solid-set, And moulded...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The Vortex Of Silence Ian Sawicki	embalm the mind's ghostly transcripts and in the vortex of silence; pursed lips, colour stretches...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio John Keats	Was not embalm'd, this truth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Kangaroo Courts Nsima Offiong	A time to appear in dock, a time to kill and embalm consciences Sobriety, not a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Maidenhood Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	When the young heart overflows, To embalm that tent of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
O true and tried Alfred Lord Tennyson	No longer caring to embalm In dying songs a dead regret, But like a statue solid-set, And moulded in colossal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
RULERS Ayuk Killian Takang	Skeptical, waste dollars for self embalm Reject judgmental as traits in countrymen Renouncing personally, long live the supreme ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Silence is in Our Festal Halls Thomas Moore	Shall still, in sweetness all their own, Embalm'd by fame, undying...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XXIV. By The Same. Charlotte Smith	--they shall embalm the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Spring Bereaved 2 William Henry Drummond	But she, whose breath embalm'd thy wholesome air, Is gone--nor gold nor gems her can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The attractive rib of deceit Nicole Musango	Since my husband is away, Let me embalm you to your grave To show the goodness of my cold heart "Jezebel " I warn you,it's your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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