Read full poem →tides.
O lips that the live blood faints in, the leavings of racks and rods!
O ghastly glories of saints, dead limbs of gibbeted Gods!
Dictionary Entry
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
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. racksracks wireracks dryingracks storage
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Poetry examples for “racks”
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Read full poem →But her ears are vexed with the roar and her face with the foam of the tides.
O lips that the live blood faints in, the leavings of racks and rods!
O ghastly glories of saints, dead limbs of gibbeted Gods!
Read full poem →The racks of earth and the rods
Are weak as foam on the sands;
Read full poem →For after death all men receive their right. 40
Then though death racks[229] my bones in funeral fire,
I'll live, and as he pulls me down mount higher.
Read full poem →And snatch again,
From to-and-fro tormenting racks,
The toss'd and hustled straw;
Read full poem →Now art was tired without success,
No racks could make the stubborn malady confess.
The vain insurancers of life,
Read full poem →In dust, whose absence gives your tears to flow,
And racks your bosom with incessant woe,
Let Recollection take a tender part,
Read full poem →More hideous than their queen:
This racks the joints, this fires the veins, 85
That every labouring sinew strains,
Read full poem →Man's feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,