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Gently Rolling Helene Cauchon	move towards transparency, lightness, lessening, and yet-- there is a quickening, an intensifying of Love, so much that we hold dear, and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Pelican Chorus Edward Lear	We heard them singing in a lessening cry, - Farther and farther till out of sight, And we stood alone in the silent...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
XI. Written at Ostend William Lisle Bowles	lessening cadence now they fall, And now, along the white and level tide, They fling their...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
Sacred To the Memory of Algernon R. G. Stanhope Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Nor noble origin Wounds him by lessening trust betwixt Him and his...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
A Destiny Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	Her thoughts lay folded from Life's lessening light, Like the sweet flowers which close themselves at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershire Percy Bysshe Shelley	Around whose lessening and invisible height Gather among the stars the clouds of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Summer Evening Churchyard. Percy Bysshe Shelley	Around whose lessening and invisible height Gather among the stars the clouds of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Hour With Thee Sir Walter Scott	The increasing wants, and lessening gains, The master's pride, who scorns my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Indian at the Burial-Place of his Fathers. William Cullen Bryant	The rivers, by the blackened shore, With lessening current run; The realm our tribes are crushed to get May be a barren desert...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 Alan Seeger	Fairer with every foot of lessening height Shone the sweet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bound For California Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	his comrades stood with him and watched the lessening land, His clear laugh rose the loudest ’mid that gay gold-seekers’...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bridge-Guard in the Karroo Rudyard Kipling	More than a little lonely Where the lessening tail-lights...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brooklyn Bridge Lola Ridge	I feel your coils tightening… And the world’s lessening...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brother and Sister George Eliot	Clung to us lessening, and pursued us...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
By A Child's Bed Duncan Campbell Scott	That bears implicitly Her lessening pearl of shadow Clasped in the crescent silver of her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Camp Follower's Song, Gomal River Violet Nicolson	sky. We hear the sound of the river, An ever-lessening moan, The hearts of us all turn backwards To where he is left alone. We sing up a little...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Second. George Gordon Byron	Till the broad sun withdraws his lessening ray; Then must the pennant-bearer slacken sail, That lagging barks may make their lazy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Third. George Gordon Byron	the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto III. George Gordon Lord Byron	the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Comfort of the Fields Archibald Lampman	Drive round and round the lessening squares of hay, And hear upon the wind, now loud, now low, With drowsy cadence half...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Death of the Stag James Thomson	To leave the lessening murderous cry behind: He bursts the thickets, glances through the glades, And plunges deep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dreaming in digital Nighttiger	Next, lessening speeds of god given intricate and instrumental spirits within the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy VIII. He Describes His Early Love of Poetry, and Its Consequences William Shenstone	Such lessening fleeces must the swain behold, That e'er with Doric pipe essays to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Farewell Sydney Thompson Dobell	Wheel lessening out of sight, and swoop again as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fourth Sunday After Easter John Keble	And homeward to Thy Father's throne, Still lessening, brightening on their sight, Thy shadowy car went soaring on; They tracked Thee up th' abyss...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)