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Lethargic Joe Strickland	Imagination writhes, like a temptress, Provoking the dormant depths...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Female of the Species Rudyard Kipling	And the victim writhes with anguish - like the Jesuit with the...	Rate it (4.00 / 2 votes)
'Peaceable Expulsion' Ambrose Bierce	The fashionable caper now in writhes- The very swellest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
19 Brooks Schmitt	up into stumbling feet as the boat writhes on the collision of waves the implosion within itself While all is calm beneath and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hopeless Cause Emile Pinet	Smitten by a flawless beauty, it's heart writhes in pure...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Million More Hanford Lennox Gordon	For Freedom wounded writhes in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Shade of Blue Juan Nieves	Holding me Leaving sighs and writhes And yet, empty and pretentious A haughty man with big words You...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Town Jane Taylor	Pain writhes within those stately walls ; Here pallid want hath been ; That casement where the curtain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AFFLICTION Alexander Rosenkrantz	Republic writhes in ignominy, Hubris, incompetence led...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua Stephen Vincent Benet	'Tis said they break alone When poison writhes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Algernon Charles Swinburne Francis William Lauderdale Adams	What writhes and dies not in its rotten root: Two things made flesh, the visible desire To match in filth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alsace-Lorraine George Meredith	Unwounded even by cruel blows on a body that writhes; Nor whimpering under misfortune; elusive of obstacles; prompt To quit any threatened...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ashes on the Slide Eugene Field	The soul, elate with joy to-day, to-morrow writhes in woe; And till a man has turned his face unto the wall and died, He must expect to get his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Between shadows FrankCalle	behind himself, and writhes in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cassandra George Meredith	Is the prophetess with rods Beaten, that she writhes in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Conscience's Dawn: A Poem of Justice and Hope Mawphniang Napoleon	Injustice writhes, strives to blind and beguile But truth and light shall always reconquer guile ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XX. He Compares His Humble Fortune With the Distress of Others William Shenstone	Here the dry dipsa writhes his sinuous mail; Can we not here secure from envy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Injustice Simply Boomerangs Wallace Dean LaBenne	as you read these words the one who hurts you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Interlude: The Window And The Hearth Christopher John Brennan	Chimaera writhes beside the tragic flame of the old hearth: her starting jaws proclaim, a silent cry, the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lead Soldiers Amy Lowell	and back - and the red rose writhes and wriggles, thrusting its flaming petals under and over one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Luther Benson James Whitcomb Riley	I see a penitent who reels, And writhes, and clasps his hands, and kneels, And moans for mercy for the sake Of that fond heart he dared...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nero’s Incendiary Song Victor Marie Hugo	To leap with hiss of thousand snakes where Tiber writhes and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Odes From Horace. - To Licinius Murena. Book The Second, Ode The Tenth. Anna Seward	The pine, that lifts so high her stately boughs, Writhes in the storms, and bends beneath their might, Innoxious while the loudest tempest blows...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Part of an Irregular Fragment Helen Maria Williams	But who is he,* convuls'd with pain, That writhes in every swelling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peace on Earth William Carlos Williams	The Serpent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)