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A Last Confession Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Then I bethought me suddenly of the famine; And how the church-steps throughout all the town, When last I had been there a month ago,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Year's Address, 1870. Margaret Dixon McDougall	Let us but think of that beleaguered town Where famine's blackness sits in every face, War cutting thousands, want ten thousands...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Parisian Episode Ellis Parker Butler	The siege the sacre famine Then some had but a crust encore, We mange the last least ham-an' ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A poem, on the rising glory of America Hugh Henry Brackenridge	The shore so long unknown, thro' various toils, Famine and death, the hero made his way, Thro' oceans bestowing with eternal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A qui la faute? Victor Marie Hugo	Il détruit l'échafaud, la guerre, la famine Il parle, plus d'esclave et plus de...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satire against the citizens of London Henry Howard	The flame of wrath shall on thee fall; With famine and pest lamentably Stricken shall be thy lechers all; Thy proud towers and turrets...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Sorrowful Lament For Ireland Augusta, Lady Gregory	Our fatherless children are wasted and weak, Famine and sickness travelling over Ireland, And every other scourge that was ever known, And the rest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Triad Christina Rossetti	And one was blue with famine after love, Who like a harpstring snapped rang harsh and low The burden of what those...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Triad Christina Georgina Rossetti	And one was blue with famine after love, Who like a harpstring snapped rang harsh and low The burden of what those were...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Watch In The Night Algernon Charles Swinburne	Rapine and famine and fright Crouch at our feet and are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Afar in the Desert Thomas Pringle	Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear; Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone, With the twilight bat from the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Africa's SoliloQUESTIONS Emmanuel Odoi-Anim	; famine, wars, disunity, plagues and diseases...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alcohol's Requiem Upon Prof. P. F. K., A Gifted Man, Who Died A Victim Of Strong Drink Ella Wheeler Wilcox	I bring you more souls than famine or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All In a Family Way Thomas Moore	Is as good for the soul as to pray; And famine itself is genteel, When one starves in a family...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Saint's Day John Keble	To wanton with some fearless child, So Famine waits, and War with greedy eyes, Till some repenting heart be ready for the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alphonso Of Castile Ralph Waldo Emerson	You have tried famine: no more try it; Ply us now with a full diet; Teach your pupils now with plenty, For one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegy on the Lady Markham Francis Beaumont	To bring a plague, a famine, or the sword, Upon the land, though she should keep her word; Yet, ere an hour be past, in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode, Written October, 1819, Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty Percy Bysshe Shelley	Though the slaves that fan her Be Famine and Toil, giving sigh for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
And the Greatest of These Is War James Weldon Johnson	Gaunt Famine, with hollow cheek and voice, arose and spoke,— 'O, Prince, I have stalked the earth, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Andy's Return Henry Lawson	With tales of flood and famine, On distant northern tracks, And shady yarns—‘baal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Angels of Hell: Canto I, Part I Chris ~cliff~ Reichard	Pestilence, Famine, War and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
ARRIVAL OF A STRANGER HON. CHIBUZO ANIWETALU	Famine is a household name in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arsenal at Springfield, The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The wail of famine in beleaguered...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies Emily Dickinson	A Nutrition...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At the Long Sault: May, 1660 Archibald Lampman	Through the snow-laden woods, like famine let loose; And he turns at last in his track Against a wall of rock and stands at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)