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Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power William Shakespeare	She may detain, but not still keep her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet IX: Ye, Who in Alleys Green Mary Darby Robinson	Then how can she his vagrant heart detain, Whose Lyre throbs only to the touch of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet X. Fernando Pessoa	Thus with deceit do I detain the heart Of which deceit's self knows itself a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stages Hermann Hesse	And let no sentiments of home detain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stolen happiness MICHAEL OSEI ASUMANI	Cause of you, I have to detain from seeing others How could I live a normal life...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Aged Patriarch Felicia Dorothea Hemans	On earth by nought but pity's tie, Detain'd a moment from on high; One to sublimer worlds allied, One from all passions...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Athenaid: Volume II: Book the Seventeenth Richard Glover	I have detain'd thee from Timothea long, The first entitled to thy grateful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Borough. Letter X: Clubs And Social Meetings George Crabbe	And to detain the struggling appetite; On such occasions minds with one consent Are to the comforts of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Death Of Carthullin James Macpherson	The winds detain thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Faithful Few: An Ode William Hamilton	So when great Juno came near Latium's Land, Detain'd, by Fate, the Guardian Vessel stood, No human Force could make it touch the Strand, Fix'd,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Gossips Ella Wheeler Wilcox	And I saw you reach out trying hard to detain him, But he just tapped your cheek and flew by to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Last Ride Together (after Browning) James Kenneth Stephen	A theme to detain a man for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Letter Charlotte Brontë	Remote colonial wilds detain Her husband, loved though stern; She, 'mid that smiling English scene, Weeps for his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Merry Have No Form Naveed Akram	like gain and surrender, as tall as someone can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mine-Sweepers Rudyard Kipling	Warn all traffic and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Monster Within Ajike Chioma Peace	This feeling, thick and heavy, I seek to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Monster Within Ajike Chioma Peace	This feeling, thick and heavy, I seek to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherd's Calendar - October John Clare	As every trifle will his eye detain The free horse rustling through the stubble land And bawling herd boy with his motly band Of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The shut-eye train Eugene Field	In your pretty cap and gown, Don't detain The Shut-Eye train -...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Splendid Shilling John Arthur Phillips	In Durance strict detain him, 'till in form Of Mony, Pallas sets the Captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Swagman Andrew Barton Paterson	Some rum things I will mention, And I'll not detain you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Treasure Of Abram John Boyle O'Reilly	the subtle smile detects the secret fear: 'Detain the chest! nor cloth nor gold, but precious silk is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vision Of The Holy Grail Eugene Field	Go with thy damosels away-- Lo, I'll detain ye...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Three Black Crows, The John Byrom	Not to detain you from a thing so strange, A gentleman, that lives not far from 'Change, This week, in short,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To C. Lloyd, On His Proposing To Domesticate With The Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Which latest shall detain the enamoured sight Seen from below, when eve the valley dims, Tinged yellow with the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)