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An Epistle to a Lady Mary Leapor	Gay Robes no more the aching Sight admires, Wit grates the Ear, and melting Music tires: Its wonted pleasures with each sense decay, Books please...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Climate Destruction Charles Edward York	The climate destruction grates comfort Down into flaming grains of sand My skin fries in the sun And the ocean sizzles ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
December, 1999 John dickerson	I hear that word "Millenium," it grates upon my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Foregiveness Doug Volgenau	ungated; sincere generosity grates ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Halls grew darker Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok	Grates of windows drowned in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Heard On The Mountain Francis Thompson	Like an infernal door that grates ajar its rusty throat, Like to a bow of iron that gnarls upon an iron rote, Grinded; and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Herve Riel Robert Browning	Not a ship that misbehaves, not a keel that grates the ground, Not a spar that comes to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How Fair Cinderella Disposed Of Her Shoe Guy Wetmore Carryl	Said she: 'The pride upon me grates Of Gwendolyn and Gladys...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jackaw of Rheims, The Richard Harris Barham	They take up the poker and poke out the grates, --They turn up the rugs, They examine the mugs:-- But,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
last time stephen mason	has become pain and the pain grates his temperament It shortens his stride and lowers the veil to reveal the man...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Le Flacon (The Perfume Flask) Charles Baudelaire	Whose creaking lock resists and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Pen No Longer Speaks M.Useless	The rose petal now grates abrasive, like 80 grit to oxidized...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Never Fade Asher J. Bond	My aging heart, it pounds and grates though painlessly, it just never...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pasha Bailey Ben William Schwenck Gilbert	And ornaments for empty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poetry And Reality Jane Taylor	Well, but it grates upon his classic ear ;-- 'He that hath ears to hear it, let him...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Snakes In Meeting Christopher Commodore	Puff Adder; Grates her scales, but she’s no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Columbiad: Book I Joel Barlow	Throws thro his grates a mist-encumber'd gleam, Paints the dun vapors that the cell invade, And fills with spectred...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun Stephen Vincent Benet	The prow grates on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Golden Wedding Of Longwood John Greenleaf Whittier	Singing of freedom through the grates of Moyamensing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Jackaw of Rheims Richard Harris Barham	They take up the poker and poke out the grates, --They turn up the rugs, They examine the mugs:-- But,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prisoner For Debt John Greenleaf Whittier	And through its grates the stripes and stars Rise on the wind, and fall, Think ye that prisoner's aged ear Rejoices...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part I Mathilde Blind	A few more vigorous strokes, and the sharp keel Grates on the beach, on which, inclining low Their tonsured heads, the monks adoring kneel; While...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rape of Lucrece William Shakespeare	The threshold grates the door to have him heard; Night-wandering weasels shriek to see him there; They fright him,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Siege Of Kazan. (Tartar Song, From The Prose Version Of Chodzko) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Talk of us still through the iron...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Althea From Prison. Richard Lovelace	And my divine ALTHEA brings To whisper at the grates; When I lye tangled in her haire, And fetterd to her eye, The birds, that wanton in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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