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I Hope You Remember Me Cloey Villanueva	When then muscadine vines shrivel and the last echo of laughter leaves the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
looking through the glass Lindsey Nickoli	Or will I shrivel up and slowly die like the trees in October when they grass turns brown and our hearts warm up...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
What If Karl Constantine FOLKES	spite of limbs impaired, no longer firm but...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
What If I Like Rudyard Kipling Karl Constantine FOLKES	spite of limbs impaired, no longer firm but shrivel… Then I could ask the poet nesting at Westminster Abbey, Poet’s Corner resting— for tips...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad Of The Boston Tea-Party Oliver Wendell Holmes	Old charters shrivel in its track, His Worship's bench has...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Private Corner Ian Sawicki	thrown in a dance to me as I curl, shrivel up into this private...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Storm in the Mountains Charles Harpur	He seems to shrivel in the blasting...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Acid attack Ruchi Agarwal	Her skin could be seen, swell and shrivel into tight...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle Emma Lazarus	Shall shrivel to small...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anzac John Le Gay Brereton	I follow, though the fiery breath Of murder shrivel me in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At The Ford. Theodore Harding Rand	All night by the fords we cross, To shrivel our sinews of self And give His blessing for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Boo Sarah Brower	once pure clouds causing the skies to shrivel and age Rocks quiver under your soles afraid being turned to grit leaves falling from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
bunny Wesley Morin	there's still nothing to show for I shrivel back retract into this hole of mine hibernate in a dream state for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Buried My Daughter Courtney Wilson	I was scared the tiny thing would shrivel to dust, her bloody face, her closed eyes, I wondered if they were the color of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
By The Fates Alfred Austin	Shall I wait till I shrivel with fire, Till I perish of parching and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Campus Sonnets: 4. Return -- 1917 Stephen Vincent Benet	And the skies seemed to shrivel like a scroll And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Campus Sonnets: Return - 1917 Stephen Vincent Benet	And the skies seemed to shrivel like a scroll And disappear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chosen People Wallace Dean LaBenne	Some people grow in stature, some shrivel in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Civilisation Arthur Henry Adams	So one by one the petals of the rose Shrivel and fade, and all its splendour goes Back to the earth; and in her arms embraced Through...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cyder: Book II John Arthur Phillips	The blithsome Year: Trees of their shrivel'd Fruits Are widow'd, dreery Storms o'er all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Drop The Matter Wallace Dean LaBenne	Repair and cobble Secrete and cache Inflate and shrivel Pummel and bash Mutter and snivel Quarrel and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Flower crown Avery Maeve	I watched them dry and shrivel And I died again to grow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hora Stellatrix Amy Lowell	So give; ripe fruit must shrivel or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
HOUSE ON THE HILL Phil Roberts	Where healthy things shrivel up And only ugliness can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How Love Looked For Hell. Sidney Lanier	-- Where the rabble of souls,' cried Sense, `Did shrivel and turn and beg and burn, Thrust back in the brimstone from above -- Is banked of violet,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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