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God Needs Antonio George Eliot	My work is mine, And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked I should rob God - since his is fullest good - Leaving a blank instead of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Sunday morning Alcase Lorraine	She’s standing, splendid, Singing, Stolen slacked shirt, Sausage skillets simmering- Shimmering skin- Sin secluded...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A gift of Magi. Swarup Bhattacharya	I was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aged Kristina Bendepende	I could not help but notice how her shoulders slacked with every exhale Without an ounce of shame I kept my gaze plastered on her being Hoping...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Barb-Wire Bill Robert William Service	It slacked and slipped, it whined and gripped, and oh, I held my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bixby's Landing Robinson Jeffers	ed; wild buckwheat blooms in the fat Weather-slacked lime from the bursted barrels. Two duckhawks darting in the sky of their cliff-hung nest are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Domestic Scene Robert William Service	The Daughter never slacked to sew; The Father read his evening news, The Son was playing solitaire: If peace a happy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I've Been Around Jessie Jones	Worked hard, slacked off, lived dirty and clean Been innocent and guilty, on my own, on a team Acted stubborn,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Exitum Cuiusdam Ezra Pound	But where's the old friend hasn't fallen off, Or slacked his hand-grip when you first gripped...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In falling Timbers buried Emily Dickinson	Neither—could be heard— Never slacked the Diggers— But when Spades had done— Oh, Reward of Anguish, It was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mazeppa George Gordon Lord Byron	And smoothed his fetlocks and his mane, And slacked his girth, and stripped his rein, And joyed to see how well he fed; For until now he had...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Security Robert William Service	" So greatly bold she slacked her hold And launched on the laughing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bay Fight Henry Howard Brownell	But the fire of the Fort had slacked, (So fierce their volleys had been)— And now, with a mighty din, The whole fleet came grandly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Palace Rudyard Kipling	Lime I milled of his marbles; burned it, slacked it, and spread; Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shipwreck Of Idomeneus George Meredith	Where'er the press was hottest; never slacked My arm its duty, nor mine eye its aim, Though terribly they compassed us, and stood Thick as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Souls of the Slain Thomas Hardy	To some humble trade, And so slacked his high fire, And his passionate martial desire; Had told him no stories to woo him and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Souls of the Slain. Thomas Hardy	To some humble trade, And so slacked his high fire, And his passionate martial desire; Had told him no stories to woo him and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Way It Wuz James Whitcomb Riley	An' Mike he slacked that grip o' his An' fell, all spraddled...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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