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888-373-7888 (Part 2) — eseyeex	When I was praying for guidance When I was praying for you to show my way You turned your head and looked the other way You handed me a bottle....	0 views Rate it
9-1-1 — conrad1997	9-1-1 9-1-1 It's what you callll when theres an emergency like a heart attack like a stroke like a BIG fat...	4 views Rate it
9/11 — Seema Tabassum Maqsood Ali	Early morning news September shower profuse Little baby Ali,crying in a mayhem Daddy in Kuwait and Mummy with me In Rawalpindi. Husband,begins to...	8 views Rate it
A little lost girl — Amber Rose West	I heard the footsteps getting louder and I knew they were near. Hoping that they wouldn't hurt me. Hiding to save myself but only made it worst. ...	126 views Rate it
A Poet's Home — Charles Harpur	HERE in this lonely rill-engirdled spot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot, With one vowed to me with beloved lips How sweet to draw, as hiddenly...	753 views Rate it
A Baby Running Barefoot — David Herbert Lawrence	When the bare feet of the baby beat across the grass The little white feet nod like white flowers in the wind, They poise and run like ripples lapping...	378 views Rate it
A Bachelor To A Married Flirt — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	All that a man can say of woman's charms, Mine eyes have spoken and my lips have told To you a thousand times. Your perfect arms (A replica from that...	52 views Rate it
A Back Porch Lullaby — Tommy L. Maddox	A gentle breeze blowing in from the south, with crickets chirping soft and quiet. Off in the distance, an old owl sings his song of questions. The...	57 views Rate it
A Bad Beginning — David Herbert Lawrence	The yellow sun steps over the mountain-top And falters a few short steps across the lake - Are you awake? See, glittering on the milk-blue, morning...	44 views Rate it
A bad day — M.R.P	It's a day the Lord has made It's beautiful in chaos Daybreak is still gloomy Even after prayer It's still stormy Dawn, still drowning Cares and...	32 views Rate it
A Ballad — Charles Lamb	In a costly palace Youth goes clad in gold; In a wretched workhouse Age's limbs are cold: There they sit, the old men by a shivering fire, Still close and...	322 views Rate it
A Ballad — James Whitcomb Riley	With A Serious Conclusion Crowd about me, little children-- Come and cluster 'round my knee While I tell a little story That happened once with...	110 views Rate it
A Ballad for Elderly Kids — Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones, And likewise of Bobadil Brown, Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs and Malones, And Diggle and Daggle and...	101 views Rate it
A Ballad of Bath — Algernon Charles Swinburne	Like a queen enchanted who may not laugh or weep, Glad at heart and guarded from change and care like ours, Girt about with beauty by days and nights that...	14 views Rate it
A Ballad Of Buttonry — John Kendall Dum-Dum	Clothes and the Man I sing. Reformers, note These of the Subaltern who owned a Coat. He was what veterans miscall, for short, By that objectionable...	2 views Rate it
A Ballad Of Fair Ladies In Revolt — George Meredith	I...	67 views Rate it
A Ballad of John Nicholson — Sir Henry Newbolt	It fell in the year of Mutiny, At darkest of the night, John Nicholson by Jalándhar came, On his way to Delhi...	51 views Rate it
A Ballad of John Nicholson — Henry John Newbolt, Sir	It fell in the year of Mutiny, At darkest of the night, John Nicholson by Jal�ndhar came, On his way to Delhi...	7 views Rate it
A Ballad Of Nursery Rhyme — Robert Graves	Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland...	119 views Rate it
A Ballad Of Nursery Rhyme — Robert von Ranke Graves	Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine. No need for bowl or silver...	10 views Rate it
A Ballad Of The Town Water — Robert Fuller Murray	It is the Police Commissioners, All on a winter's day; And they to prove the town water Have set themselves...	105 views Rate it
A Ballad Of Woman — Richard Le Gallienne	(Gratefully Dedicated to Mrs. Pankhurst) She bore us in her dreaming womb, And laughed into the face of Death; She laughed, in her strange agony,...	39 views Rate it
A Ballad With A Serious Conclusion — James Whitcomb Riley	Crowd about me, little children - Come and cluster 'round my knee While I tell a little story That happened once with me. My father he had gone away...	9 views Rate it
A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her — Robert Southey	The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal, And the Old Woman knew what he said, And she grew pale at the Raven's tale, And sicken'd and went to her...	183 views Rate it
A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her. — Robert Southey	The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal, And the Old Woman knew what he said, And she grew pale at the Raven's tale, And sicken'd and went to her bed. ...	13 views Rate it

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