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Issiah's Coin Collection Mark Christpher\aka Mark Lee	are those who also scour the polluted ground seeking man's disregarded coins For Issiah these pennies and dimes...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Anglers Roberto Suárez Torres	Where hooks scour from their heights at ease, So a small prey, a vulture in the trees Hunched-over with the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Channel Firing Thomas Hardy	For if it were they'd have to scour Hells floor for so much...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Nicolas Sanchez Cortes David Zapata	incredible, he knows all this information I must...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Silicon Serpent's Subtle Song : Ghostly Weave of Wires Mawphniang Napoleon	No scrub, no scour can cleanse it from the system clean, It slips and slides through any crack between, The...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
You are my remnant Wendy Rice	Scour like...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Black Job. Thomas Hood	Enough to scour a...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
Born Beautiful Maeve Sawyer Wade	hours ours to scour as time turns tauter, burned bookend to bookend, but bound back n'penned; a body bereft...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
An Experiment In Translation Alfred Austin	Some scour the seas in search of war, and storm The gates of Kings, put cities to the sword, To drain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beware The Blight Samuel Koome	I scour; wading through blurs And I can no longer find a word The keys of courage to sweep the fog ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bird Parliament (translation of) Edward Fitzgerald	And they that scour the Desert with long Feet; Birds of all Natures, known or not to Man, Flock'd from all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
BLACK HORIZON Phil Roberts	Nightlings scour the roadside Hoping to find human road kill, Or living things to rip and rend Guzzling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bonduca Beaumont and Fletcher	light shadows, That in a thought scour o'er the fields of corn, Halted on crutches to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Botany Bay Eclogues 03 - Humphrey And William Robert Southey	So nicely scour'd, you might have seen your face; And over all, to frighten thieves, was hung Well clean'd,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brockley Coomb Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Up scour the startling stragglers of the flock That on green plots o'er precipices browse: From the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brumby's Run Andrew Barton Paterson	So, off to scour the mountain-side With eager eyes aglow, To strongholds where the wild mobs hide ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bush Goblins Henry Mackenzie Green	And scour the empty heaven, and twist the air To filmiest flickerings, o’er us in vain ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cattle In Summer James Thomson	They scorn the keeper's voice, and scour the plain, Through all the bright severity of noon; While, from their labouring breasts, a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Clancy Of The Mounted Police Robert William Service	And so they scour the startled plains and mock at hurt and pain, And read their Crimson Manual, and find their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Conjured Thinking Britton Armstrong	and prey hunt by day, eaten by night scour every crevice on this planet to find meaning find every species as its handed hand you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cyclopean Gilbert Keith Chesterton	But though in pigmy wanderings dull I scour the deserts of his skull, I never find the face, eyes, teeth, Lowering or laughing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dick Whittington And His Cat. Clara Doty Bates	To pare potatoes, and scour pans, To wash the kettles and sweep the room; And she beat him dreadfully with the broom; And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Emily Ann Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Go, send out my riders, and scour Gosh for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper	Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Expositor Veritatis Ambrose Bierce	And get some emery to scour your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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