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A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day Thomas Love Peacock	Owners, Captain and sailors we therefore shall seize on, And whereas oxen, lambs and sheep About the roads and lanes will creep, And cocks and hens...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Reasonable Protestation J. C. Squire	Ourselves from that in which we live Nor seize on things God does not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Sabbath Scene John Greenleaf Whittier	In wrath my coat-tail seize on; I heard the priest cry,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Botany Bay Eclogues 05 - Frederic Robert Southey	Seize on his willing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lines To Fanny John Keats	More dismal cares Seize on me unawares,-- Where shall I learn to get my peace...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oh, They have Robbed Me of The Hope Anne Brontë	Well, let them seize on all they can: -- One treasure still is mine, -- A heart that loves to think on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Primroses Alfred Austin	Round his flying footsteps hover, Seize on hollow, ridge, and cover, Leave nor slope nor hill unharried, Till, his snowy trenches...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sermon in a Churchyard Thomas Babbington Macaulay	The plots and feats of those that press To seize on titles, wealth, or power, Shall seem to thee a game of chess, Devised to pass a tedious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dance Major Henry Livingston Jr.	If a pin or a hankerchief happen to fall To seize on the prise fills with uproar the ball; Such pulling and hawling & shoving & pushing As rivals...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rape of the Trap. A Ballad William Shenstone	Had the rat, which thus did seize on The Trap, less claim to reason, Than many a skull among...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love George Peele	Among the rest, That Love shall seize on her by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Earl Of Clare George Gordon Lord Byron	Nor left a thought to seize...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Translation of Petrarch's Rima, Sonnet 134 Sir Thomas Wyatt	And nought I have, and all the world I seize on; That looseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison And holdeth me not, yet can I 'scape nowise; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Virtues That Pay Joseph Furphy	They prompt you to seize on the world as your oyster, Inserting our knife with a spirit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wars In Queen Victorias Reign James McIntyre	He then resolved to seize on Canton, But soon there came a dismal cry Of slaughtered Britons from Delhi; The Bengal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Your Game Rebecca Rose McCall	I seize on this temptation You're playing on jealousy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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