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A Catholic To His Ulster Brother Dora Sigerson Shorter	Do we forget or could our fond faith slacken A patriot's glow in owning Joy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fragment Thomas Gent	To slacken and decay, which might, perchance, Have borne him up on ardor's wing to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A losing battle to doze! GIDRAF MWANGI	And there’s a massive slacken of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. Andrew Marvell	And, lest their force the tender burthen wrong, Slacken the vigour of his Muscles strong; Then to the Mothers brest her softly move, Which while...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Ring Posy Christina Georgina Rossetti	While the sun shines make their hay, Slacken steps demurely: Yet even there I lead the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alphonso Of Castile Ralph Waldo Emerson	Men and gods are too extense,— Could you slacken and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At Applewaite, Near Keswick 1804 William Wordsworth	And should these slacken, honoured...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Second. George Gordon Byron	Then must the pennant-bearer slacken sail, That lagging barks may make their lazy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Contemplation Francis Thompson	The sun with resting pulses seems to brood, And slacken its command upon my unurged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Control It Nikhil Parekh	Control it; or prepare to slacken your invincible stranglehold on the periphery of precious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Deliah Adam Lindsay Gordon	Will trifle with nature's great laws, And slacken those sinews in languor That battled so well in His cause...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Discoverer Of The North Cape. A Leaf From King Alfred's Orosius. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	To the right the desolate shore, But I did not slacken sail For the walrus or the whale, Till after three days...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Duncan, an Ode Helen Maria Williams	And meekly drops the slacken'd bow; Whose gracious eye with mercy's glance Has ever gaz'd on human...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
English Eclogues VI - The Ruined Cottage Robert Southey	I could not chuse but pass with slacken'd speed By that delightful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Forerunners Ralph Waldo Emerson	Sometimes their strong speed they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Good Morrow John Donne	thou and I Love so alike that none do slacken, none can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gotham. Book II. Charles Churchill	The patient to those manly sports which bind The slacken'd sinews, and relieve the mind; The patient feels a change as wrought by stealth, And wonders...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Guilt Mark Peterson	self-derision's name nobility to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hospital Sunrise Kaci Tami	I am unable to rise So, I simply slacken and remain supine And watch the sunrise Casting dappled gold shadows On the walls of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Illileo James Whitcomb Riley	And I said the stars should slacken in their paces through the vast, Ere yet my loyalty should fail enduring to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jack Corrigan Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	And bade her never slacken in her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to Eloquence Mary Darby Robinson	'Till every slacken'd nerve new strung, Bids renovated NATURE shine, Amidst the fost'ring beams of ELOQUENCE...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Odes From Horace. - To Posthumus. Book The Second, Ode The Fourteenth. Anna Seward	- Thou canst not slacken this reluctant speed, Tho' still on Pluto's shrine thy Hecatomb should...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Reading Ballads Arthur Graeme West	And cuckoos slacken...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Open Mouthed yawn Nikhil Parekh	its speed; abdicating the exhilaration it had possessed a few hours...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)