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The House with Nobody in It Joyce Kilmer	A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and held up his stumbling feet, Is the saddest sight, when it's left alone, that ever your eyes could...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Always Keep It Real Melissa Calcote	eventually leave you scarred, even if you've held up a...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Kinda like Job David Linsday	And I'd habitually failed I kept my head held up high For a hint of wind in my sails And...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Renascence Edna St. Vincent Millay	The definition on my mind, Held up before my eyes a glass Through which my shrinking sight did pass Until it seemed I must...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Secure to You Paul E Wells	My feet rise above the night, Like a cup held up to the heavens, My soul meets the Pascal Light, Like a serpent lifted o’er the desert, Like...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Sweet innocence Regene hamilton	Feeling all alone even though she was held up by two other, Side by side although they really could not bother As the dust settled...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Beauty of Venerability: The Wisdom of Time and Age Mawphniang Napoleon	Their words and deeds held up for all to see, Their stories, myths, and legends to be shared, A glimpse of what once was...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Follicle Chronicle Dee-Dee Carter	" She cleared her throat as to make a speech, I held up my hand, "You don't have to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot	Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon peeped out (Another hid...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Unacceptable Activities Lawrence S. Pertillar	With their thumbs held up...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
For the Foxes Charles Bukowski	say water held up Christ: to come through you better be nearly as...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
A Beautiful Macabre Chase Walker	You keep your shoulders tucked back and your head held up high, And you keep looking forward because you know soon that you, Will get through the rain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Cry For Help BlackAngel Evo	Confused, down and desperate I held up the blade Lost in my thoughts Admiring its gleaming...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A German Christmas Eve (Prose) Michael Fairless	arms awaiting the world's embrace--Mary's Son, held up in loving hands to bless; or the Heavenly Child-King with crown and lily sceptre, borne high...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A London Fête Coventry Patmore	A single cry, that shook the air; Mothers held up their babes to see, Who spread their hands, and crow'd for glee; Here a girl from her vesture...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Rhyme Of The War. Margaret J Preston	Poor heart, - that has held up so brave in the past, - Poor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Thunder Storm. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey	And the earth held up her fearless face And listened as if to a signal blown,-- A signal-trump in some heavenly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Albert Down Under Marriott Edgar	He were properly held up for bobbins, As the folk in the mill used to say, Till he hit on a simple solution - He'd go...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At The West India Docks Francis William Lauderdale Adams	hand she brandished a lash, and the other held up a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Before I die Josane santiago	in my head I didn’t find it I felt like I was held up in confinement for a crime that I did not commit trust me I was dam near blinded I guess...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Before I die I think first Josane santiago	in my head I didn’t find it I felt like I was held up in confinement for a crime that I did not commit trust me I was dam near blinded I guess...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Before I die I think first Eazzy duzit	in my head I didn’t find it I felt like I was held up in confinement for a crime that I did not commit trust me I was dam near blinded I guess...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beginning Stage Irene Akopyan	Convinced it is best to stall Keep my head held up...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childhood in New York Ronald Tirino	red balloons on whitened twine held up to oxen’s of the sun They do not notice the noise and grime tenements with close...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cobbler Keezar's Vision John Greenleaf Whittier	He held up that mystic lapstone, He held it up like a lens, And he counted the long years coming Ey...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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