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No Windows Juan van Niekerk	Where nothing stabs to wet my face, Pallor with listlessness and ache, If only reattachment favoured one, With a ragged, worn-out...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
536. Ode William Wordsworth 1770–1850	To perish never: Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Confession To A Friend in Trouble Thomas Hardy	I even smile old smiles--with listlessness-- Yet smiles they are, not ghastly mockeries...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lost Chance James Brunton Stephens	To have held it in my hand in vacant listlessness of wonder, Taken with its dusky lustre, all incurious of its worth— To have trod for years...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Caliban upon Setebos or, Natural Theology in the Island Robert Browning	But did, in envy, listlessness or sport, Make what Himself would fain, in a manner, be-- Weaker in most points, stronger...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eurydice Hilda Doolittle	you had let me wait I had grown from listlessness into peace, if you had let me rest with the dead, I had forgot you and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Just Where Were You? Nikhil Parekh	Just Where were you when I sat in solitary listlessness—for hours immemorial on the dining table; not wanting to savor even the most infinitesimal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Quest Bill Kurple	Wandering without direction, wandering in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Spleen (II) Charles Baudelaire	Boredom (of listlessness the pale abortion) Of immortality takes the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stanzas William Wordsworth	To banish listlessness and irksome care; He would have taught you how you might employ Yourself; and many did to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bullfrog Bell Joseph Furphy	And in listlessness I pace the river side, Where the solitude is wounded by no lighted window's ray; But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Voice Thomas Hardy	Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here, You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness, Heard...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Voice Thomas Hardy	Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here, You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To She Who Is Too Light-hearted Charles Baudelaire	Sometimes in a lovely garden where I trailed my listlessness, I’ve felt the sunlight sear my breast like some ironic weapon: and Spring’s green...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Chapel Bell Robert Southey	To linger out the hour, in listlessness or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tristesses de la lune (Sorrows Of The Moon) Charles Baudelaire	When, in her lazy listlessness, She sometimes sheds a furtive tear upon this globe, A pious poet, enemy of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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