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Abu Midjan. Archibald Lampman	Here in sorrow, meek and idle, Abu Midjan sits in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Acrostic #1 Betrug-eines-Dichter	Little hands: idle, idle, the devil's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ad Comitissam Rutlandiæ Francis Beaumont	And, for the last, in all my idle days I never yet did living woman praise In prose or verse: and when I do begin I'll pick...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adam's Curse William Butler Yeats	Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of ---- William Wordsworth	idle words; but take The Dirge which for our Master's sake And yours, love prompted me to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Admetus: To my friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson Emma Lazarus	Him sought the king, discovering soon hard by, Idle, as one in nowise bound to time, Watching the restless grasses blow and wave, The sparkle of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adrenaline Doctor Dashaun Rashod Snipes	It awakens me from my idle state Filling me with a powerful, electrifying faith Pushing me forward, beyond my fears As...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Advice To Believe In Christ Rees Prichard	All his belief is but an idle...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aechdeacon Barbour John Greenleaf Whittier	Suggesting vaguely to the gazer's mind A fancy, idle as the prairie wind, Of the land's dwellers in an age unguessed; The unsung Jotuns of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aeolian Harp, The Samuel Taylor Coleridge	And many idle flitting phantasies, Traverse my indolent and passive brain, As wild and various, as the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Afar Off Ada Cambridge	Great Art, no more the plaything of the idle, But nurse and handmaid to all human needs; Great Nature, curbed no more with bit and bridle,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Against Constancy Lord John Wilmot	Old men and weak, whose idle flame, Their own defects discovers, Since changing can but spread their shame, Ought to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Against Constancy John Wilmot	Old men and weak, whose idle flame, Their own defects discovers, Since changing can but spread their shame, Ought to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Against Idleness and Mischief Isaac Watts	For Satan finds some Mischief still For idle Hands to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aglaia: A Pastoral Nicholas Breton	While ye tune your pipes to play But an idle roundelay; And in sad Discomfort's den Everyone go bite her pen; That she cannot reach the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ah Me! William Schwenck Gilbert	" An idle breath - Yet life and death May hang upon a maid's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Kindled Lies Afire Kurt Philip Behm	Do the reasons then abandon, idle hope when left...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Meaning Is Within Tracy Bollinger	Of open exclusions n' idle reflection; Or an abstract arrow aimed at thee, Is decision resting in your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alle Zattere Arthur Symons	my ambition dies; I ask No more than some half-idle task, To be done idly, and to fill Some gaps of leisure when I will. I care not if the world...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amor Vitae Archibald Lampman	I let the wrangling world go by, And like an idle breath Its echoes and its phantoms fly: I care no jot for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amours de Voyage, Canto I Arthur Hugh Clough	'Tis but to change idle fancies for memories wilfully falser; 'Tis but to go and have...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amours de Voyage, Canto III Arthur Hugh Clough	oak-trees immingle, Where, amid odorous copse bridle-paths wander and wind, Where, under mulberry-branches, the diligent rivulet sparkles, Or amid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amours de Voyage, Canto V Arthur Hugh Clough	But it is idle, moping, and thinking, and trying to fix her Image once more and more in, to write the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Address to Poetry Helen Maria Williams	The idle crowd in fashion's train, Their trifling comment, pert reply, Who talk so much, yet talk in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan William Topaz McGonagall	occupied nearly three years in which he was not idle, Because when he sits down to write he does it with might and main, And to get an interview...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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