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An Unfinished Life Lisa Campbell	Rotting like wormwood Burrowed deep Layer upon layer My cruel invader Cloaked in mystery It incubates Master...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Goblin Market Christina Rossetti	Her lips began to scorch, That juice was wormwood to her tongue, She loath’d the feast: Writhing as one possess’d she leap’d and sung, Rent all...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Hyde Park Larrikin Henry Kendall	There's worse than wormwood in your speech, You livid, living...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Balin and Balan Alfred Lord Tennyson	Have past--were wormwood-bitter to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
bitter wormwood star Billy Meek	wormwood star jealous of the writer that I are took...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto The Third. George Gordon Byron	The dregs were wormwood; but he filled again, And from a purer fount, on holier ground, And deemed its spring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III [excerpt] George Gordon Byron	Is gall and wormwood to an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto III. George Gordon Lord Byron	The dregs were wormwood; but he fill'd again, And from a purer fount, on holier ground, And deem'd its spring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cliff Klingenhagen Edwin Arlington Robinson	And one with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dregs Ernest Christopher Dowson	Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain; And health and hope have gone the way of love Into the drear oblivion of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Follow The Bubbles John Jessup Kennan	A drowning pool deeper than...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From A Poem Boris Pasternak	Of meadows, sinking from sight among Wormwood, mint and quails beneath the wispy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ghosts of Dreams William Herbert Carruth	'Tis a cup of wormwood and gall, When the doom of a great man is said; And the best of a man is under a pall When...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Harlan Sewall Edgar Lee Masters	We kiss forever the watchful hands That gave us wormwood, while we shudder For thinking of the wormwood, A soul that's cured is a different matter,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Honours - Part2 conclusion Jean Ingelow	By darkness, by the wormwood and the gall, I pray Thee visit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn For The Celebration Of Emancipation At Newburyport John Greenleaf Whittier	We saw the star of Wormwood...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Am In Pain And In Vain I Struggle To Free Myself Charles Darnell Jones	that eternal blaze to burn down this porch of wormwood i've...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
If This Be All Anne Brontë	And turned to wormwood,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Imminent Death Richard Newton Sherrer	Devour but none to quench, You turn justice to wormwood; Casting righteousness to drench, Into darkness where they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Memoriam—Rev. J. J. Lyons Emma Lazarus	Though ye be sick with wormwood and with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode (From The French) George Gordon Lord Byron	Like the Wormwood Star foretold By the sainted Seer of old, Show'ring down a fiery flood, Turning rivers into...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On An Old Deluded Suitor George Moses Horton	'Tis now he drinks the wormwood and the gall, And all the sweets of early pleasures pall, When from his breast the hope...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Recollection Phillis Wheatley	Her awful hand a cup of wormwood...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Paroo Henry Kendall	A taste like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pasa Thalassa Thalassa Edwin Arlington Robinson	had their day, and the dusk is on yarrow and wormwood— Dusk that is over the grass, drenched with memorial dew; Trellises lie like bones in a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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