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On A Bank Of Flowers Robert Burns	Her closèd eyes, like weapons sheath'd, Were sealed in soft repose; Her lips, still as she fragrant breath'd, It richer...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
So We'll Go No More a-Roving George Gordon Lord Byron	For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
What Purpose Did Life Have To Exist? Nikhil Parekh	the astoundingly scintillating sheath of perpetual dewdrops; the mystical rejuvenation that they imparted at the crack of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
III. The Shadow Of Lilith Christopher John Brennan	close on open'd calyx and slipt sheath thro' all the garden bosom-bound beneath dense night that hangs, her own perturbing moon: ...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
A Dedication Robert Burns	And in the fire throws the sheath; When Ruin, with his sweeping besom, Just frets till Heav'n commission gies him; While o'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication To Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Robert Burns	And in the fire throws the sheath; When Ruin, with his sweeping besom, Just frets 'till Heav'n commission gies him: While o'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Demagogue Ambrose Bierce	Misses the foeman to mangle the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Faith On Trial George Meredith	Weak out of sheath downy leaves Of the beech quivered lucid as dew, Their radiance asking, who grieves; For nought...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Family Record Oliver Wendell Holmes	Without its blade, a knife's embroidered sheath; Save for the stroke his trusty weapon dealt His scalp had dangled at their owner's belt; But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fantasy of War Henry Lawson	To fasten plank and rib and beam, and sheath and iron...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Friend Of Mine. James Barron Hope	His keen sword rusted in its splendid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter Of Gratitude Pulkit Dwivedi	Innocent you Effervescent lust Scramble for sheath And murder of trust Your acid tears Ravishing sins Beds of betrayal, needles, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Place In Heaven Nikhil Parekh	sheath of hair transformed to grizzly white, bone mass shrunk beneath tunnels of skin, teeth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Serenade Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	Deep slumbers the villa In night's dusky...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song of Truce Robert Fuller Murray	While the sword is in its sheath, While the cannon's mouth is dumb, Soldier, rest awhile at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Spring Carol Alfred Austin	That have strained and split their sheath, And are listening...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Torchbearer Edith Wharton	That in the sober sheath of tranquil tasks Hide the attempered blade of high emprise, And leap like lightning to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Virginal Ezra Pound	I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness, For my surrounding air hath a new lightness; Slight are her arms, yet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ad Manus Puellae Ernest Christopher Dowson	When it slid from its silken sheath, her glove; With its odours passing ambergris: And that was the empty husk of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alaric In Italy Felicia Dorothea Hemans	He of the sword that knows no sheath, The avenger, the deliverer -...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
America's New War Kathy A. Wittman	rusty machete, shrouded by its worn, canvas sheath; inscribed cryptic words, "Born to kill", on a USMC helmet; our graduation gift to you: a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode to Antares Alan Seeger	Those robes that make a silken sheath For each lithe attitude that flows beneath, Shrouding in scented folds sweet warmths and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anniversary Poem John Greenleaf Whittier	A clouded sky: Not yet the sword has found its sheath, And on the sweet spring airs the breath Of war floats...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Another Thomas Lovell Beddoes	So poets fly the critics snappish heat, And sheath their minds in scorn and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
April Remy Belleau	To the young flowers that beneath Their bud sheath Are guarded in their tender...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)