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A Day in Bed
Katherine Mansfield
Who used to creep around
And snatch at things--he was so bad,
With just that horrid...
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An Angler
William Browne
At last a hungry pike, or well-grown bream
Snatch at the worm, and hasting fast away,
He knowing it a fish of stubborn sway,
Pulls up his rod,...
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Between The Wind And Rain
Isabella Valancy Crawford
'And bleak, black clouds snatch at her purple hills--
'While mate and eaglets shriek upon the rock--
'The eagle leaves the hylas...
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Friend
Ajah Ikechukwu Emmanuel
But there lies a plan
To snatch at our emotions

Like a praying mantis,
It shall strike
At the heart of our...
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Just Done
Mei Yuan
So a boy runs...
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Life or death @ the water'S edge
James Reid
linger begs fatal end
little time to snatch at air
jumping, bucking, kicking, barking
flailing tail, whipping, lashing
darting eyes, trying...
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Philip, My King
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Rebels within thee, and foes without,
Will snatch at thy...
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Promenade
Lola Ridge
And blurs of gold
And delicate mauves
That snatch at youth…
And bodies all rosily
Fleshed for the airing,
In warm velvety surges
Passing...
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The Day Is Coming
William Morris
Of his fellow’s fall and mishap
to snatch at the work he...
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The Invective of Achilles--V. 225
George Meredith
Snatch at the prize of the one whose voice has been lifted against...
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The Newcomer's Wife
Thomas Hardy
Newcomers snatch at as a...
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The Ruined Abbey, or, The Affects of Superstition
William Shenstone
And fiends to snatch at the departing soul
With hellish emulation: if a friend,
High o'er his roof exultant angels...
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