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Because I could not stop for Death (712) Emily Dickinson	We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess--in the Ring-- We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-- We passed the Setting...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
America Herman Melville	Valor with Valor strove, and died: Fierce was Despair, and cruel was Pride; And the lorn Mother speechless stood, Pale...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Freedom Kaz Brekker	He strove for it so long, But couldn't find the freedom, He died a meaningless death, In the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Ode to Trump Jim Gardiner	Strove mightily to minister their fatal draught to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Complaint Of a Forsaken Indian Woman William Wordsworth	A most strange working did I see; ---As if he strove to be a man, That he might pull the sledge for me: And then he stretched his arm, how...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Last of the Light Brigade Rudyard Kipling	They strove to stand to attention, to straighten the toil-bowed back; They drilled on an empty stomach,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Tomlinson Rudyard Kipling	" -- "For that ye strove in neighbour-love it shall be written fair, But now ye wait at Heaven's Gate and not in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Unnatural Love Allen Tate	That you had strove with none At seventy-five and had deferred...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
O Sea, why art thou fair? John M. Broadhead	As heart and brain strove violently, while lustrous sea-maid...	Rate it (3.50 / 2 votes)
Cloves Neil McLeod	An obtundant for which many...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
A Brand Plucked Out Of The Fire John Newton	In vain I wish'd and strove to hide The tatter'd, filthy rags I wore; While my fierce foe insulting cry'd See what you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Christmas Hymn John Charles McNeill	And praise to God that ere men strove About his tomb in war One loved him with a mother's love, Nor knew a creed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A DAY OF PHILOSOPHISING Norbert Tasev	With little hope, I strove to save what was destined to be destroyed by the destructive time of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable Jane Taylor	'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Girl at her Devotions. By Newton Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Over earth's happiness; it tells she strove With silent, secret, unrequited...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Leave-Taking Algernon Charles Swinburne	And how these things are, though ye strove to show, She would not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lifted Finger Ambrose Bierce	_You_, for whose back the rods and cudgels strove Ere yet the ax had hewn them from the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lily And A Lute. Jean Ingelow	I strove, and it went under, And I drew, but it went down; And the waterweeds' long tresses, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Meditation Herman Melville	And, free from hate in many an after pass, Strove as in school-boy rivalry of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Medley: Ask Me No More (The Princess) Alfred Lord Tennyson	Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal'd: I strove against the stream and all in vain: Let the great river take me to the main: No more, dear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Mountain Storm Katharine Lee Bates	And goring horns that strove to charge the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Year's Gift William Strode	Than all the Golden Age when Vertue strove With nothing but with Vertue; may it bee Such as the Dayes of Saturnes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ballad William Shenstone	Now I know what it is, to have strove With the torture of doubt and desire; What it is to admire and to love, And to leave...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ballad I: Absence William Shenstone	Now I know what it is, to have strove With the torture of doubt and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ballad II: Hope William Shenstone	O how sudden the jessamine strove With the lilac to render it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)