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Ceiling Paul McKenzie	House now empty, up for sale I lay on the cheerless carpet Stare at the ceiling for hairline cracks In which I hope to find you No smoke, no...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Dawn in New York Claude McKay	Manhattan's roofs and spires and cheerless...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
She Sat Alone Beside Her Hearth Letitia Elizabeth Landon	Lone, with rite cheerless dawn, And then they said, 'Can this be her We called 'The Startled...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Wretched Jonathan Walker	Wretched days we're Starved and scorned Cheerless hearts will Feast...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Years Ago Walter R. Cassels	Upon the cold, bleak, cheerless years, Till Earth should ope her grassy breast, And take me to my welcome rest, ...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Descriptive Ode Charlotte Smith	But o'er the cold and cheerless down Grim desolation seems to frown, Blasting the ungrateful soil with partial...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Farewell. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey	Cheerless we take our way, but not afraid: Will there not be more roses--by and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A little while, a little while, Emily Jane Brontë	And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lost Chance James Brunton Stephens	To the sweat of cheerless toil, the bread made bitter with the savour Of the leaven of regret and tears of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life. James Thomson	How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ode. To the Hon. Sir Richard Lyttleton William Shenstone	Must waste his cheerless even and morn, Nor praised, nor loved, nor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Plea For Our Northern Winters. Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	And I sigh to see the branches so cheerless and so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo William Lisle Bowles	On some rude shore, Around whose crags the cheerless billows roar, Watching the unwearied surges doth he stand, And think upon his father's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adrian's Address To His Soul When Dying George Gordon Lord Byron	No more with wonted humour gay, But pallid, cheerless, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Again Rejoicing Nature Sees Robert Burns	Thy gloom will soothe my cheerless soul, When Nature all is sad like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek) William Cowper	A cheerless being sole and sad; The nuptial knot I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Invitation Alfred Domett	That the Future is haply not utterly cheerless: While the Present has joy and adventure as rare As the Past when most...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anxiety Erwin Jung	Worrying me plenty Riddling a cheerless war of dying hearts Locking away my golden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Autumn Days. Will Carleton	Icy fetters round thee creeping; O'er the cheerless, withered plain, Woefully and hoarsely calling; Pelting hail and drenching rain On thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Autumn Days. William McKendree Carleton	Icy fetters round thee creeping; O'er the cheerless, withered plain, Woefully and hoarsely calling; Pelting hail and drenching rain On thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Autumnal Nightfall Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Loud mourns the chill and cheerless gale, When nightfall shades the quiet vale And stars in beauty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bellambi's Maid Henry Kendall	and cheerless falls the night On withered hearts and hopes decayed: And I have seen but little light Since...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
BLEND OF OLD WINES Nwafor Oji Awala	On this cheerless path To our last bell Aged and aged ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Child Lying Wallace Dean LaBenne	Compensation: A life that's cheerless, drab and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Childish Recollections George Gordon Lord Byron	Thus, while the future dark and cheerless gleams The sun of memory, glowing through my drearns Though sunk' the radiance of his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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