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Inscription 05 - For A Monument At Silbury-Hill Robert Southey	May here detain thee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
kawkinum Reil Exce Rosanjelix	Movements measurements unto this favorites, rules detain this, improving payments, All inclusive students pre-payment, taxes, food, inflation, brew ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Last Blink Juvariya	They're nothing but crying in detain They asked me to move...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Last Ride Together, The James Kenneth Stephen	A theme to detain a man for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Leave Me, My Blamer XIII Khalil Gibran	Do not Detain me, my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Light John Milton	Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Longing to be with Christ William Cowper	Dissolve thou these bonds that detain My soul from her portion in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mahomet's Song Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	With their loving eyes detain him; To the plain his course he taketh,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mine-Sweepers Rudyard Kipling	Warn all traffic and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Monadnoc Ralph Waldo Emerson	Than the gray dreams which thee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mozart's Requiem Felicia Dorothea Hemans	I strive with yearnings vain, The spirit to detain Of the deep harmonies that past me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Infatuation Christina Latimer	explain, my heart beats for him, its hard to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Napoleon Victor Marie Hugo	Him, whether Paestum's solemn fane detain, Shrouding his soul with meditation's power; Or at Pozzuloil, to the sprightly strain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Night-Scene in Genoa Felicia Dorothea Hemans	On earth by nought but pity's tie Detain'd a moment from on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode IV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country Mark Akenside	Were destin'd to detain: No, nor bright science, nor the Muse's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode XII: To Sir Francis Henry Drake, Baronet Mark Akenside	O Drake, thy footsteps to detain, When peevish winds and gloomy frost The sunshine of the temper...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of That So Sweet Imprisonment James Joyce	Soft arms that woo me to relent And woo me to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ William Cowper	Dissolve thou these bonds that detain My soul from her portion in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of Damon. (Translated From Milton) William Cowper	In Tuscan Fiorenza long detain'd, But, stored at length with all he wish'd to learn, For his flock's sake now hasted to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Once I Pass'd Through A Populous City Walt Whitman	there, who detain'd me for love of me; Day by day and night by night we were together,--All else has...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied William Wordsworth	As being all unworthy to detain A Soul by contemplation...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Paradise Lost: Book 03 John Milton	Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peruvian Tales: Cora, Tale IV Helen Maria Williams	Still share the fetters which my love detain; The piercing iron to my soul is dear, Nor will its sharpness wound while thou art...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peruvian Tales: Zilia, Tale III Helen Maria Williams	The youth replied, "my spirit to detain; From thee my soul, in childhood's earliest year, Caught the light pleasure and the passing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto II. John Gay	Nor shall the mounting lark the muse detain, That greets the morning with his early strain; When, 'midst his song, the twinkling glass...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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