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Adele and Gilbert D. S. Fly	Wearing mottled russet robes Who seemed to shrink away from light When light their persons...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Apostasy Charlotte Brontë	Then will Hell shrink away, As I have seen night's terrors shun The conquering steps of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Girl in the city Nandani Karn	Two guys stand near I shrink away It's not fear It's pure utter doubt That's planted in every female's mind for the opposite...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
An Indian at the Burial-Place of his Fathers. William Cullen Bryant	In the warm noon, we shrink away; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day,-- Till they shall fill the land, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Apostasy. Charlotte Bronte	Then will Hell shrink away, As I have seen night's terrors shun The conquering steps of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At A Funeral Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	For often I have seen them shrink away, As in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Backslider sorrowful Wayne Blair	Talked around Watching eye contact Shrink...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Carric-Thura James Macpherson	They see thee lovely in thy sleep; they shrink away with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dust to Glory: A Ghetto Love Story Shon White	And doesn't shrink away from danger in the face of the Beast Because the Devil is a lion He desires to eat you He...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Honour's Martyr Emily Jane Brontë	All true breasts shrink...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In the light of day Ronald Tirino	Flowered meadows in still lit beauty Shrink away our torrent rains Lived as in its starting Its fate within life’s closing With ourselves...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pardoned Out Ella Wheeler Wilcox	I dread to see men shrink away With startled looks of scorn or fear, When in life’s crowded marts some day, That name...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poetic Sketches. Sketch Third. Letitia Elizabeth Landon	As he did; and he loved to shrink away, The deep woods his companions, and to live Mid visions and wild...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Spring. (From The French Of Charles D'Orleans. XV. Century) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	And they shrink away, and they flee in fear, When thy merry step draws...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hinterland Robert William Service	The second when we shrink away into our private...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Stream Of Life William Cullen Bryant	Thy parent fountains shrink away, And close their crystal veins, And where thy glittering current flowed The dust alone...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To the Author, From the Villain Josefa Valdez	People shrink away when she...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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