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The Worker John M. Broadhead	Showed no longer the grief of a soul straining deep; From his life without rest he’d forevermore...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Fallen Arches Joe Strickland	As if bones and sinew Were conspiring, Straining against The weight of existence, Each step A battle against An invisible...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
For Travis William Stephen Edwards	So far below the unreachable sky Wanting and straining, but unable to fly They struggle each moment forward Until, finding a small, safe...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Infallible prayersfor	imperfect outreach straining for Heaven having reached an equilibrium of thought unto itself and all it deems and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Stock Market Mark A. England	The markets are straining, Against the tide, Of corruption and greed, And to much Pride; Perhaps we can learn, from...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Waiting Paul Laurence Dunbar	) My eyes are seaward straining For the coming of a sail; But void the sea, and void the beach Far and beyond where gaze can...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Wind Boris Pasternak	Is shaking house and forest, straining Not single fir trees one by one But the whole wood, all trees together, With all the distance...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
In the Pale Brightness Steven Maugham	Swinging slowly to and fro Falling sky Straining eye Seeking moon Darkening soon In the pale brightness Calming dark Quietly stark ...	Rate it (4.33 / 3 votes)
"Exhausting Pain." CThornes	Waning Straining Breaking Mothers' words draining, waning I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
"I'm ok" Paul Grenek	o, I'm not complaining, but, my mind, it keeps on straining, and in my head, it just keeps...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Certain Lady Dorothy Parker	And all the straining things within my heart You'll never...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Chilly Night Christina Rossetti	But never a sound of words Fell on my straining...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Death - Scene Emily Jane Brontë	But no glimpse of a further shore Has blest my straining...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Death-Scene. Emily Bronte	But no glimpse of a further shore Has blest my straining...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream. Sophie M Almon Hensley	With wistful, straining eyes I waited, and the sunshine flecked the bank Happy with arbutus and violets where I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lamentation Algernon Charles Swinburne	With snapping of chariot-poles And with straining of oars I have grazed in the race the goals, In the storm the shores; As a greave is cleft with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Minor Poet Amy Levy	No muttering of mute lips, no straining out Of a weak throat a-choke with pent-up...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Rhapsody Of A Southern Winter Night Henry Timrod	And now, if I may trust my straining sight, The heavens appear with added stars to-night, And deeper depths, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song Of Winds Roderic Quinn	And straining engines and racing screws; Of pumice-stone and brown weeds riven, Cast up and flung on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet Anne Kingsmill Finch	Old Mammon digging, straining, sweating, As Bags of Gold he thence was getting; Who, when reprov'd for such Dejections ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Vision Out West Barcroft Boake	They sink, as, driven from the North by straining oar and favouring gale, A misty barge repels the froth which hides her with a sparkling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Vision Out West Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	They sink, as, driven from the North by straining oar and favouring gale, A misty barge repels the froth which hides her with a sparkling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo William Lisle Bowles	comes to bless The isles again; but my long-straining eye, No speck, no shadow can, far off, descry, That I might weep tears of delight, and say, It is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adieu to Belshanny William Allingham	The boat comes straining on her net, and heavily she creeps, Cast off, cast off - she feels the oars, and to her berth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adrift Donna F Newton	I saw for myself exactly why straining my eyes as it float softly down and an instant smile took over my frown landing at my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)