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A Channel Passage Algernon Charles Swinburne	and hungering at heart, made way, and were wellnigh fain, For the ship that had fought them, and wrestled, and revelled in labour, to cease from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adieux à Marie Stuart Algernon Charles Swinburne	Yet, wellnigh as with flash of tears, The song must say but so That took your praise up twenty years...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Angelo William Watson	Had not my father wellnigh forced me to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Captain Carpenter John Crowe Ransom	But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach) John Greenleaf Whittier	And now the church was wellnigh done; One pillar it lacked, and one alone; And the grim Troll muttered, "Fool thou...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
L. e. l. Christina Georgina Rossetti	I feel no spring, while spring is wellnigh blown, I find no nest, while nests are in the grove: Woe's me for mine own heart that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Miriam John Greenleaf Whittier	Although the day was wellnigh done, And the low angle of the sun Along the naked hillside cast Our shadows as of giants...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Paean John Greenleaf Whittier	The dreary night has wellnigh passed, The slumbers of the North are o'er, The Giant stands erect at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rokeby: Canto IV. Sir Walter Scott	Dangerous to one of aid bereft, Wellnigh an orphan, and alone, Captive her sire, her house...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Russia Katharine Lee Bates	Does this wild roar of wars, That wellnigh breaks the shuddering heart of earth, Sound in the hearing of the far-off stars A golden voice...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Battle of Sempach Sir Walter Scott	Might wellnigh load a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cable Hymn John Greenleaf Whittier	Classic, or wellnigh so, in Harriet Stowe's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dwarves Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Her courage was wellnigh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fires Rudyard Kipling	And my heart is wellnigh broke For thinking on old memories That gather in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Holy Grail Alfred Lord Tennyson	Her all but utter whiteness held for sin, A man wellnigh a hundred winters old, Spake often with her of the Holy Grail, A legend handed down through...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Orphan Maid Sir Walter Scott	'Saint Bridget sent no scaly spoil; An infant, wellnigh dead, They saved, and rear'd in want and toil, To beg from you her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Princes' Quest - Part the First William Watson	Upon the gleamy steps, and wellnigh sang For joy,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Princes' Quest - Part the Ninth William Watson	Forgetful that the day was wellnigh flown: But soon the urgent spirit of the stone Itself re-entered and possessed anew His soul;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sower Victor Marie Hugo	Twilight hastens on to rule-- Working hours are wellnigh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Story and Song of Black Roderick Dora Sigerson Shorter	who cast her thorn across his path so his steed wellnigh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Swagman's Rest Andrew Barton Paterson	His strength was wellnigh sped, He gasped and struggled and tried to speak, Then fell in a moment --...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thoughts On Jesus Christ's Decent Into Hell Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Whom He, by dying, wellnigh kill'd; He shall pronounce her fearful fate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To My Old Schoolmaster John Greenleaf Whittier	For his ordination cheer, Or the flip that wellnigh made Glad his funeral cavalcade; Weary prose, and poet's lines, Flavored by their age, like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)