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Goblin Market Christina Rossetti	Wind sang to them lullaby, Lumbering owls forbore to fly, Not a bat flapp’d to and fro Round their rest: Cheek to cheek and breast to breast...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Bank Fraud Rudyard Kipling	He purchased raiment and forbore to pay'; He stuck a trusting junior with a horse, And won gymkhanas in a doubtful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Serenade At The Villa Robert Browning	When the owls forbore a term, You heard music; that was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Absalom and Achitophel John Dryden	Some warm excesses, which the Law forbore, Were constru'd Youth that purg'd by boyling o'r: And Amnon's Murther, by a specious Name, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Address, Spoken At The Opening Of Drury-Lane Theatre. Saturday, October 10, 1812 George Gordon Lord Byron	And made us blush that you forbore to blame; If e'er the sinking stage could condescend To soothe the sickly taste it dare not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
By The Fireside : King Witlaf's Drinking-horn Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	But not for this their revels The jovial monks forbore, For they cried, 'Fill high the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 01 Sa di	' The king, moved with pity, forbore taking his life but another vezier, the antagonist of the former, said: 'Men of our rank ought...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Second. George Gordon Byron	Which envious eld forbore, and tyrants left to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Third. George Gordon Byron	Did yet inspire a cheer, which he forbore to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XXII. Written in the Year ----, When the Rights of Sepulture Were So Frequently Violated William Shenstone	'I spoke, nor Fate forbore his trembling spoil; Some venal mourner lent his careless aid, And soon they bore me to my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eve Christina Georgina Rossetti	From his cloud station; Larks on thyme beds Forbore to mount or sing; Bees drooped upon the wing; The raven perched on high Forgot his ration;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From the Commemoration Ode Harriet Monroe	Who knew the path, and yet forbore To tread, till all men should implore; Who saw the light, and led the way Where the gray...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ginevra Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ginevra saw her lover, and forbore To shriek or faint, and checked the stifling blood Rushing upon her heart, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Harmosan Richard Chenevix Trench	hand he took the goblet, but awhle the draught forbore, Seeming doubtully the purpose of the foemen to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 112 Isaac Watts	The wounded felt immediate ease, The camp forbore to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The Willow Shade Christina Georgina Rossetti	The birds forbore a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - part 02 Torquato Tasso	Assailed the knight; but her the knight forbore, 'Gainst other foes he proved him through the field, Yet she for that refrained ne'er the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion. Satire II Edward Young	For all but such with caution I forbore; That thou wast either, I ne'er knew before: I know thee now, both what thou art, and who; No...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Merlin And Vivien Alfred Lord Tennyson	Straight at the speaker, but forbore: he rose To leave the hall, and, Vivien following him, Turned to her: 'Here are snakes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
New Gertrude Stein	Forbore....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Orlando Furioso Canto 4 Ludovico Ariosto	" He meant the ring, but further hint forbore; Lest dearly he the avowed should...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Periander George Meredith	Still coloured him when men forbore to sting; Admiring meekly where the ordered seeds Of his good sovereignty showed gardens trim;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peter Sinning And Repenting John Newton	At once, as if by lightning struck, His tongue forbore to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prospice Robert Browning	I would hate that Death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And made me creep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet 06 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Without the sense of that which I forbore— Thy touch upon the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)