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'I Dips me Lid' Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Yon glittering stream and bound the chafing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Coarse Morning Augusta Davies Webster	The surging, chafing, murderous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Cry to Arms Henry Timrod	who by the chafing tide Have roughened in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hymn Of The Many Ambrose Bierce	'We sank beneath the Master's thong, Our chafing chains were ne'er undone; Now clash your lances in the sun And bless your banners with a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Always Mercy Tom Kennedy	Her tired chafing robe Cuts across her terse torment lies As...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Enigma William Cowper	From him who, chafing every shred, Gives all an equal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
anxiety kwuantum	chafing on my skin deepens the pain yet you still comfort me¿ my hands hold the distortion of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eye-Service Maurice Henry Hewlett	So my Love takes My soul's thin hands and, chafing them, she makes My life's blood lusty and my life's hope high For the strong lips and eyes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
FREEDOM ON A FLAT EARTH Zarah Grant	clear like the cheap wool we weave into chafing blindfolds - Marketed as ethical pure silk and Tenderly tied over our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Geraint And Enid Alfred Lord Tennyson	With gold and scattered coinage, and the squire Chafing his shoulder: then he cried again, 'To the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ghost Glen Henry Kendall	Whenever the sea-creek is chafing and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hayeswater Matthew Arnold	Black, chafing water: and afloat, And lonely as a truant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
King Saul at Gilboa Henry Kendall	Across the reefs of chafing Galilee, The car of Abner and the sword of Saul Drave Gaza down Gilboa’s southern wall; But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
La Muse Vénale (The Venal Muse) Charles Baudelaire	Shall you have any fire at all to huddle by, Chafing your violet feet in the black snowy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Let Us play Yesterday Emily Dickinson	Make the Blind—leap— Still at the Egg-life— Chafing the Shell— When you troubled the Ellipse— And the Bird...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Meteoric Bruce Neeb	By lifting ourselves above that chafing atmosphere We might sustain our lives and make the most of the time we...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mortuus Molly Michaels	Chafing bonds around me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to I Am Kiki Stamatiou	The salt, it burned my chafing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
One Of Those Days Wallace Dean LaBenne	Absolute chafing set in before...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Orara Henry Kendall	THE STRONG sob of the chafing stream That seaward fights its way ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rope Of love Nikhil Parekh	like the frisky giraffe after chafing my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Said The Coal To A Diamond Allama Muhammad Iqbal	My darkness lights the chafing-dish before I am...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Samuel Brown Sydney Thompson Dobell	Our noise was like the wind Chafing the wordy Deep; but broad and blind They stood...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sixth Sunday After Epiphany John Keble	But win her fearless way against the chafing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song John Davidson	THE boat is chafing at our long delay, And we must leave too...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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