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Nefertiti John W. May	Arise, my love, leave crook and flail, And let us from this palace flee, So we in silent love can...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Darkness Tiffany Whitaker	I kick and flail fighting to stay above the darkness But the darkness won't let go of its hold on me and I...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad Of Evesham Francis Turner Palgrave	' And smote around him like a flail, And clear'd a space to lie:-- 'Thank...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix And Timothy Jonathan Swift	The Tories' terror, scourge, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Mountain Storm Katharine Lee Bates	Shuddered like flagellants beneath the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Agricultural Implements. James McIntyre	When the machine displaced the flail, There's little work now with the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Agricultural, Implements and Machinery James McIntyre	When the machine displaced the flail ; Theres little work, now, with the hoes, Since cultivators weed the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amnesthesia Trevor Logan	I writhe and wither, flail and flounder Racing in place until the energy escapes I become exhausted and lost ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland William Topaz McGonagall	That he attacked the gipsies with his flail, and made them...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Autumn Within Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Fall and rustle and are still; Beats no flail upon the sheaves, Comes no murmur from the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Autumn. William Henry Giles Kingston	Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Barleymow And Dunghill. John Gay	To hear the music of the flail; In his quick eye he viewed his stock, - The geese, the hogs, the fleecy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Causerie (Conversation) Charles Baudelaire	O Beauty, flail of spirits, you know...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Centipede Tripping Wallace Dean LaBenne	If a centipede should trip many legs would flail It would be a steady clip tripping down the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chanukah Thoughts Morris Rosenfeld	Tho' cruel hands with mighty flail Have threshed us, yet we have not blenched: The sea of blood could naught prevail, That fire...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chivalrous Deed Quinn Massurian	The plume on his great helm a flail There in the noonday...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cognitive Creature EASN	From the day your born Throughout life you flail No getting ahead Just falling behind Making a pittance for a daily grind Nothing to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Earlier Poems : Autumn Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Early Spring John Clare	Looks oer the gate; the thresher's lumping flail Is all the noise the spring encounters...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ego Nihil Sum Gareth Evans	Continue to endure, for you are my leisure Flail upon your back Mace in your visage Pulled upon the rack The pain blurs your vision ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Engulfed Kurt Philip Behm	Treading water, spewing lies, legs to flail in wasted states Choking from each word unsaid —trailing death within my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fair Warning Sally A. Cadwgan	Your chubby limbs flail as if you see the long trip there, the long trip that in the end will seem so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Flowers in Winter John Greenleaf Whittier	The settler saw his oaken flail Take bud, and bloom before his eyes; From frozen pools he saw the pale Sweet summer lilies...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Giffen's Debt Rudyard Kipling	And flourishing a flail-like whip, came down, Breathing ambrosia, to the villages, And fell upon the simple villagers...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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