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For Spiritual Brothers and Sisters &All Human Race on Earth Astghick Moradkhanians	By not tacking any life's Reason is...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
After The Sea-Ship Walt Whitman	Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface; Larger and smaller waves, in the spread of the ocean,...	Rate it (4.00 / 2 votes)
A Ballad Of Boding. Christina Georgina Rossetti	And voices sometimes loud; With endless tacking, counter-tacking, All things grasping, all things lacking, It would seem; Ever shifting helm,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Christmas Ghost Story. Thomas Hardy	And what of logic or of truth appears In tacking 'Anno Domini' to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Christmas Ghost-Story Thomas Hardy	And what of logic or of truth appears In tacking 'Anno Domini' to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aboard At A Ship's Helm Walt Whitman	The bows turn,--the freighted ship, tacking, speeds away under her gray sails, The beautiful and noble ship, with all her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jeduthan Hawley Edgar Lee Masters	Sepulchral boards and tacking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
John Underhill John Greenleaf Whittier	The two fair rivers, the flakes thereby, And, tacking to windward, low and crank, The little shallop from Strawberry Bank; And he rose in his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song Of The Universal Walt Whitman	In spiral roads, by long detours, (As a much-tacking ship upon the sea,) For it, the partial to the permanent flowing, For it, the Real to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Quarter-Gunner's Yarn Sir Henry Newbolt	But what with foul weather and tacking about, When we sighted the Fleet we were thirteen days...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Wind Speaks Alfred Austin	Or catch up my tacking sail, Can bridle my lust with scourge or frown, As I speed me away on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Wreck Of Rivermouth John Greenleaf Whittier	' Veering and tacking, they backward wore; And just as a breath-from the woods ashore Blew out to whisper of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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