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On an Infant dying as soon as born Charles Lamb	That has his day; while shrivell'd crones Stiffen with age to stocks and stones; And crabbed use the conscience sears In sinners of an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Remembering When Young Lawrence S. Pertillar	' 'An attempt to recapture, What use to stiffen quick from a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Step Emma Poema	Stiffen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tempora Mutantur Ambrose Bierce	'(The fatal horrors of her snaky pate, That stiffen men into a stony...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto II. Coventry Patmore	Third-winter'd in that dreadful dock, With stiffen'd cordage, sails decay'd, And crew that care for calm and shock Alike, too dull to be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bridge of Sighs Thomas Hood	Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Country Clown John Trumbull	Is swallow'd in the trembling throat; The stiffen'd gait, the drawling tone, By which his native place is known; The blush, that looks by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The First Flowers John Greenleaf Whittier	So, when this fluid age we live in Shall stiffen round my careless rhyme, Who made the vagrant tracks may puzzle The savants of the coming...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Labourer George Meredith	He would bend tough oak, he would stiffen the reed, point Reason to swallow the passions, Bid Britons awake two steps to take where one is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto II. Sir Walter Scott	With toil his stiffen'd limbs he rear'd; A hundred years had flung their snows On his thin locks and floating...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Morai Helen Maria Williams	The eye that once on thee shall gaze No more its stiffen'd orb can raise; The lips that could thy power reveal, Shall lasting silence instant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Revolutionary David Herbert Lawrence	Must be excruciating: unless you stiffen into metal, when it is easier to stand stock rigid than to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Widow Of Glencoe William Edmondstoune Aytoun	Wash not off that sacred stain: Let it stiffen on the tartan, Let his wounds unclosed remain, Till the day when he shall show them At the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Threads of Innocence :Babylon of Beginnings Part I Mawphniang Napoleon	While our thoughts seize, stiffen and Solidify, the babe stays open, mining For meaning, unrefined but never consigning ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To St. Micheal in Time of Peace Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Michael of the Army of the Lord, Stiffen thou the hand upon the still sword, Michael, Folded and shut upon the sheathed sword,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Waiting Kaci Tami	Shoulder's stiffen, toes face inwards tighten, lips curl, anger exudinh from every pore ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wake of the Wandering M.D. Stankov	Of his vacant lies Now, now my love Stiffen your lip He does not know Of the crack of his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Women Louise Bogan	They stiffen, when they should...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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