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The Duellist - Book III Charles Churchill	In a dark corner, shunning sight Of man, and shrinking from the light, One dull, dim taper through the cell Glimmering, to make more horrible The face...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Female Martyr John Greenleaf Whittier	Yet shrinking not from offices of dread For the wrung dying, and the unconscious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Forsaken Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	Its vanish'd sound still haunts her shrinking ear,-- ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The FourFold of Poetics Scott Michael Potter	as bliss, those of us panting-still emptied-shrinking-inside-outside-swelling-filled know an experience of Nature as Artemis seen and reacted to ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Haunted Hazel James Bernard Dollard	A nameless horror seizes on his spirit, bowed and shrinking, And making oft the Holy Sign, he hurries home...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Heaven vests for Each Emily Dickinson	Some bashful Summer's Day— Half shrinking from the Glory It importuned to see Till these faint Tabernacles drop In full...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Human Sacrifice John Greenleaf Whittier	No, from the wild and shrinking dread, With which he saw the victim led Beneath the dark veil which divides Ever the living...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Island Hawk Alfred Noyes	Dumb is the shrinking plain, And the songs that enchanted the woods are still As I shoot to the skies...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lady Of The Castle Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Seem all too joyous for her shrinking eye; Check'd on her lip the flow of song, which fain Would there have linger'd; flush'd her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Long, Lone Road Roderic Quinn	'When I walk, a spirit shrinking, Where the grey shadows fall, There'll be little need, I'm thinking, For the rich delights...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier	And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnamable pain Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mercenary View Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	While, lo, the money that was mine Is shrinking, seriatim; And faced by serious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Missionary - Canto Seventh William Lisle Bowles	No wanton exercise of barbarous power Harrows my shrinking conscience at this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Notice Of White Shroud Aranyak Shams (Mohammed Shams Uddin)	The sun is shrinking like a 'white...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Burying-Ground John Greenleaf Whittier	The distant pines reply; Like mourners shrinking from the dead, They stand apart and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Whim Horse Edward George Dyson	And the lightnings lash at the shrinking trees, Or the cattle down from the ranges blunder As the fires drive by on the summer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Organist Archibald Lampman	She started, and in shrinking-wise Besought him with her liquid eyes And little features, very sweet and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pang More Sharp Than All. An Allegory Samuel Taylor Coleridge	And inly shrinking from her own disguise Enacts the faery Boy that's lost and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Passing Of The Year Robert William Service	And You, deep shrinking in the gloom, What find you in that filmy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Physical Conscience Ada Cambridge	In shamed limbs shrinking from unloved embrace, In love- born passion, that no laws compel, Nor gold can purchase,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pigeons Of St. Marks Robert William Service	Mankind we no longer trust; Shrinking from the tendered hand, pick we corn from out the dust; While on guileless pilgrim pate,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poet, The Oyster, And Sensitive Plant William Cowper	And each by shrinking show’d he felt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poor Man's Guest Edith Nesbit	I warmed him in my shrinking breast, I gave him all I had, and said: 'You, only you, have been my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Reply Of The Fountain Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Our purest feelings, and our best, Yet shrinking from the common view; Rarely except in song exprest, And yet how tender, and how...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ship of Death David Herbert Lawrence	itself shrinking, wincing from the cold that blows upon it through the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)