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"Beneath the Chains, I Rise" Tina s Transformation	No longer a captive to others' strife, I'll rise, reclaiming my true...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
'Tis Opposites—entice Emily Dickinson	The Blind—esteem it be Enough Estate—to see— The Captive—strangles new— For...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
1-3-5-7 Poem about Autumn Ms. Marcella Francesca	That of being too human, too mortal, Held captive by the waning...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
2084 Lee Geoghegan	People now captive to a totalitarian state Society is now ruled with an iron fist You’ve seen those movies;...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
2099 Michael Charles Sinclair	Nevertheless, I am still held captive by pleasure and survival: Earth's competing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Broken Prayer George MacDonald	Sits, as a captive in a noisome dungeon Watches the pulses of his withered heart Lave out the sparkling minutes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Bubble Ambrose Bierce	' which was partly true, And men called her the Captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Captive Domain Kurt Philip Behm	With truth serving time —in a captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Captive Throstle Alfred Austin	The privilege to risk one's all On being nor captive, caged, nor thrall, The wish to range, the wing to soar Past space behind, through space...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A ceux qui sont petits Victor Marie Hugo	De votre crâne étroit qu'un instinct vil captive, On y verrait l'énorme horizon de la nuit ; Vous êtes ce qui bave, ignore, insulte et nuit ; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Child's Wish Abram Joseph Ryan	I wish I were the little key That locks Love's Captive in, And lets Him out to go and free A sinful heart from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Compassionate God Richard Newton Sherrer	Sing praises to extol, My faith became...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue Betwixt Cordanus And Amoret, On A Lost Heart Richard Lovelace	Then, captive heart, since that no humane spell Hath power to graspe thee his,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure Andrew Marvell	What Slaves, unless I captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue. Lute And Voice Richard Lovelace	The lyon and the panther captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Drop of Water Subhashchandra Adhav	Aquatic animals It thought They were captive criminals When the river was In high spate It itself elevated Its status and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Full Day Of Sunshine Nikhil Parekh	scores of humans from the captive jaws of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Garden Idyl George Meredith	A monster in the form of ball; The mildest captive ever snared, That neither struggled nor despaired, On half the net invading hung, And plain as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lady With A Falcon On Her Fist. To The Honourable My Cousin A[nne] L[ovelace] Richard Lovelace	From her bright pow'r to shelter thee: Her captive (foole) outgases him; Ah, what lost wretches then are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim Matthew Prior	Officers captive made, and private men, Of these twelve hundred, of those thousands ten; Tents,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Litany of Lethe Arthur Symons	And to the captive openest prison-walls, O Lethe, let us find thee and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lost Dream Paul Laurence Dunbar	But now the dream is lost, and hell Holds me her captive tight and fast Who prays and struggles for the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Passage In The Moriae Encomium Of Erasmus. Imitated Matthew Prior	Her jingling bells affect our captive ear, And in the sights we see and sounds we hear, Against our judgement she our sense employs,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue - I Anne Killigrew	Who e're their artifice can captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses Anne Kingsmill Finch	Not thy Lover, but thy Slave; To encrease thy captive Train, Never to be lov'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)