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Brother Of All, With Genesrous Hand Walt Whitman	By you, Potomac, laving the ground Washington trod--by you Patapsco, You, Hudson--you, endless Mississippi--not by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Second. George Gordon Byron	Thus bending o'er the vessel's laving side, To gaze on Dian's wave-reflected sphere, The soul forgets her schemes of Hope and Pride,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Costanza Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Binding his wounds, and oft in silence laving His brow with tears that mourn'd the strong man's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eleu Loro Sir Walter Scott	There through the summer day Cool streams are laving: There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving; There thy rest shalt thou...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Help Franklin P. Adams	Your gowns shall be of lace and silk, Your laving shall be done in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Indra August Strindberg	Shaking our wings, And laving our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Metempsychosis Ambrose Bierce	This sacred spot; perchance some water-nymph Who laving in the crystal flood her limbs Has taken cold, and so, with raucous voice Afflicts the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song Of The Chattahoochee Sidney Lanier	The willful waterweeds held me thrall, The laving laurel turned my tide, The ferns and the fondling grass said `Stay,' The dewberry dipped for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Drowned Lover Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thy love's pallid corse the wild surges are laving, O'er his form the fierce swell of the tempest is raving; But, fear not, parting spirit;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The First Grey Hair Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert	And drown thy taunts in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Forest Sanctuary - Part I. Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Lend it no tone: His wide savannahs laving, It is not murmur'd by the joyous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ocean Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	My ship-steed sniffing its flank is laving With buoyant zest in the cooling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poppy Francis Thompson	And his smile, as nymphs from their laving meres, Trembled up from a bath of tears; And joy, like a mew sea-rocked apart, Tossed on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sea By The Wood Duncan Campbell Scott	They are weary of laving the seaman's eyes With their passion prayer unsaid, They are weary of sobs and the sudden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Song Of The Chattahoochee Sidney Lanier	The willful waterweeds held me thrall, The laving laurel turned my tide, The ferns and the fondling grass said `Stay,' The dewberry dipped for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Poesy Charles Harpur	Round beauty in thy fountain laving, Move in music through the air, Gathering increase everywhere, The more to bless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Where Shall the Lover Rest Sir Walter Scott	There, through the summer day, Cool streams are laving; There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving; There, thy rest shall thou...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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