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Anywhere Out of the World Charles Baudelaire	There the sun only grazes the earth obliquely, and the slow alternation of light and darkness suppresses variety and increases monotony,...	Rate it (2.00 / 2 votes)
A Death in the Bush Henry Kendall	Of one fierce day of many slanted down Obliquely past the nether jags of peaks And gulfs of mist, the tardy night came vexed By belted clouds...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song : The Sparkling Eye William Cowper	So when on earth the god of day Obliquely sheds his tempered ray, Through convex orbs the beams transmit, The beams that gently...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne	Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
November Monsoon Hathef Khazvini	this Sunday afternoon; Obliquely the voice of the breeze the most odd &...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode To Hope James Beattie	Suspicion hides her head, Nor dares th' obliquely gleaming eyeball raise, Despair, with gorgon-figured veil o'erspread, Speeds to dark...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On A Miser, 2 (From The Greek) William Cowper	' The mouse her host obliquely eyed, And, smiling, pleasantly replied: 'Fear not, good fellow, for your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Portraits Lola Ridge	y, so that little wry souls reflecting each other obliquely as in cracked mirrors… beheld in your luminous spirit their own reflection, transfigured as in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stealing Milk From Blind Cows Wallace Dean LaBenne	" Some people squint obliquely, yet their "blind spot"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bridge: Atlantis Harold Hart Crane	And on, obliquely up bright carrier bars New octaves trestle the twin monoliths Beyond whose frosted capes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hind and the Panther: Part I (excerpts) John Dryden	New swarming sects to this obliquely tend, Hence they began, and here they all will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The Fourth Mark Akenside	Oft as the giant flood obliquely strides, And his banks open, and his lawns extend, Stops short the pleased traveller to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Puzzler Rudyard Kipling	Obliquely and by inference, illumination comes, On some step that they have taken, or some action...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 Alexander Pope	The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Triumphs Of Philamore And Amoret. To The Noblest Of Our Richard Lovelace	Look with one sun, though 't but obliquely be, And if not shine, vouchsafe to wink on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Triumphs Of Philamore And Amoret. To The Noblest Of Our Youth And Best Of Friends, Charles Cotton, Esquire. Being At Berisford, At His House In Straffordshire. From London. A Poem Richard Lovelace	Look with one sun, though 't but obliquely be, And if not shine, vouchsafe to wink on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thunderstorm Albeej A	Strong winds blow the falling rain obliquely downward drenching all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vida's Game Of Chess Oliver Goldsmith	Yet must they ne'er obliquely aim their blows; That only manner is allow'd to those Whom Mars has favour'd most,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Walking on Air Yousif Ibrahim Abubaker	y, so that little souls are reflecting each other obliquely as in cracked mirrors; behold in your own...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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