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A Legend Of Christ's Nativity Duncan Campbell Scott	So tall and strong that when I try, Standing on tiptoe for a kiss I could not reach, except for this, He lifts me up so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Memory of June Claude McKay	And Earth on tiptoe for her golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An honest Valentine Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	last word,-- Or, while poor Love, crying, Upon tiptoe stands, Ready plumed for flying,-- Will you smile, shake hands, And the truth beholding, With...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	When I see crowds agape and in the rain Watching on tiptoe and with stifled roar To see a rocket fired or a bull slain, When misers handle gold, when...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Who stood on tiptoe with a childish air, Her face and figure hidden in a sacque, All but her eyes and forehead...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hora Stellatrix Amy Lowell	Though the tulips stand on tiptoe to hear, So give; ripe fruit must shrivel or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hsieh Ling-Yun Linda Arnott	n. Yellow and pink explode in the East. I rise "on tiptoe atop a stone I cup a waterfall" and drink. The Three Rivers share my thirst. Memories of home...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Improvisation Boris Pasternak	Sleeves up, arms out, on tiptoe I rose; At my elbow I felt the nudging of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The Public Library Lesbia Harford	Standing on tiptoe, head back, eyes and arm Upraised, Kate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of Three Children Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch	And dress'd us and on tiptoe crept Adown the creaking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song of the Moon Claude McKay	Waiting on tiptoe in the wilding spaces, To drink your wine mixed with sweet drafts of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sport In The Meadows John Clare	One stands on tiptoe for a linnet's nest And pricks her hand and throws her flowers away And runs for plantin leaves...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lover's Farewell George Moses Horton	I steal on tiptoe from these bowers, All spangled with a thousand flowers; I sigh, yet leave them all behind, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Palace of Art Alfred Lord Tennyson	To hang on tiptoe, tossing up A cloud of incense of all odour steam'd From out a golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Progress of Taste, or the Fate of Delicacy William Shenstone	Steals soft on tiptoe through the crowd; Conveys his meagre form between, And slides, like pervious air,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sorcerer: Act II William Schwenck Gilbert	Wells, on tiptoe, followed by Alexis and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Tryst Ella Wheeler Wilcox	My heart on tiptoe pressed its eager ear Against my breast; it was such a joy to hear The tolling of the hour...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
There was a Child Once Katherine Mansfield	On tiptoe we walked among the deepest shades; We bathed in the shadow pools beneath the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Helen - 1848 Edgar Allan Poe	Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe- Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That gave out, in return for the love-light, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Victory comes late Emily Dickinson	Unless We dine on tiptoe— Crumbs—fit such little mouths— Cherries—suit Robbins— The Eagle's Golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
With Esther Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Watching on tiptoe and with stifled roar To see a rocket fired or a bull slain, When misers handle gold,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)