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A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix And Timothy Jonathan Swift	Be studious well to imitate My portly motion, mien, and gait; Mark my address, and learn my style, When to look scornful, when to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A little bread—a crust—a crumb Emily Dickinson	Can keep the soul alive— Not portly,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bacchus Marsh Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Portly dame, untuned to trouble, Destined through the years to be While the ills of earth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bantams in Pine-woods Wallace Stevens	And fears not portly Azcan nor his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien Robert Louis Stevenson	And portly tyrants dyed with crime Change, in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bert The Blacksmith Alan S Jeeves	Oxhide apron draped around This portly figure, forearms...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Circumstantial Evidence Ellis Parker Butler	She likes a man of portly size;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Constancy Ambrose Bierce	An aged lover-a portly, Bald lover, a trifle too stiff, With manners that would have been courtly, And would have...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cragwell End R C Lehmann	Pompous and purple-faced and proud; With a portly girth and a voice so loud You might have heard it a mile away When he cheered the hounds on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Demon And Beast William Butler Yeats	He splashed where an absurd Portly green-pated bird Shook off the water from his back; Being no more demoniac A stupid happy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Experience Ralph Waldo Emerson	In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, — Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift and spectral...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Funeral Of Youth, The: Threnody Rupert Brooke	PASSION, grown portly, something middle-aged; And FRIENDSHIP -- not a minute older, she; IMPATIENCE, ever taking out...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How Could You Ever Call Nikhil Parekh	it had a serrated green shell engulfing its portly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Making Cider Victoria Sackville-West	Now barrels ranged in portly line Mature through winter’s sleep, Aping the leisured sloths of wine That dreams of Tiber or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On A Great Hollow Tree William Strode	Tell mee the causes, how this portly tree Grew to this haughty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pagett, M.P. Rudyard Kipling	Lowered his portly person -- made him yearn to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poem 9 Edmund Spenser	LOe where she comes along with portly pace, Lyke Phoebe from her chamber of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poet And Peer Robert William Service	He pointed at that portly Grace Who glared with apoplectic face, While others stared with gloom; Then having...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Possibly A Probability Of A Problem Barbara Lee Vigil	that pandered and pilfered portly pompous puberty passing pork publically over pudendums with pedal pushers and pig hairs and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sir Hornbook Thomas Love Peacock	With Adjective, his lady bright, Who seemed a portly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet V Edmund Spenser	In finding fault with her too portly pride: the thing which I doo most in her admire, is of the world vnworthy most...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stans Puer ad Mensam Sir Walter Raleigh	You need not therefore think That portly strangers like your pet To share their meat and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Poet's Tale; Lady Wentworth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	While all alone within the chariot sat A portly person with three-cornered hat, A crimson velvet coat, head high in air, Gold-headed cane,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. Finale Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	portly Landlord cried;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. Interlude III. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The missing man, the portly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)