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Fallen leaves that curled and shrank - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)


And goblins all to the damp dungeon shrink - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

Presses down my shrinking heart - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

That shrink from garish noon - C.S. Calverley "Evening"

That in the act of seizing shrinks - John Clare "What Is Life?"

Why do I shrink to own the bitter truth? - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

the days shrink and fold away - Didi Jackson "Fall"

Shrinks at the thought of day - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"

We shrink eventual to the ultimate bone - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

A shrinking dread of an unearthly morrow - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Shrinking from the spear of light - Thomas MacDonagh "Inscription on a Ruin"

Coward shrinking from the brave - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

Along the shrinking sands will crawl - Alice Wellington Rollins "Andromeda"

My finite heart shrinks from the infinite - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"

Silence shrinks deeper in - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"


Astonished at their shrunken estate - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

Our vast psychic habitat shrunk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

And the sun shrunken yellow in smoke - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"

No bitterer than the shrunk grape - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

The shrunk grape clinging to the wasted stem - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

Shrunk in the shade of the cypress - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Heliotrope"


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