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Half Way To Memphis Kurt Philip Behm	Guitar strings bust or missing, motel clerk at my door I’m half way to Memphis, bathroom window as...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Retirement Wazir Sourjah	Puny Clerk in the corporate cage, to Inspecting Cop Zigzagged many a slot in Khaki and civvies to occupy...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Wages Of Sin Kurt Philip Behm	my chariot parked The clerk’s eyes on fire, as she asks me my name “It’s there on the check” I repeat in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot	A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Song of Brave Men Henry Lawson	And the clerk with what he laid hands on; but all were ready to...	Rate it (2.00 / 2 votes)
10APR2022 1PoetUSA	1780 Thomas Paine, Clerk of the General Assembly Furthermore Absalom Jones and Richard Allen Land where Wisdom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication Robert Burns	Howl thro' the dwelling o' the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication To Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Robert Burns	Howl thro' the dwelling o' the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Doe In The City William Makepeace Thackeray	'Madam,' says the old chief Clerk, 'Sure we can't admit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hundred Collars Robert Lee Frost	"No room," the night clerk...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lay of St. Gengulphus Richard Harris Barham	Ere a spruce young spark of a Learned Clerk Had called on his Lady and stopp'd to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Damon And Pythias Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	UNIMPORTANT CLERK (Advancing): Well, spare my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Smuggler's Song Rudyard Kipling	Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song From A Sandhill Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	fire: is it never going to stop? Has the weather-clerk gone crazy, with his drop, drop,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Strange Wild Song Lewis Carroll	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Summary History of Lord Clive William Topaz McGonagall	And got to be a clerk in a merchant's office, but for it he didn't care; The only pleasure he found was in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tale Of Queuing Up At A Hotdog Stand eliseo guerrero cervantes	" The order clerk says--...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's James Henry Leigh Hunt	Not with his trout or gudgeon, but his clerk: The clerk leaps gaping at a tempting bit, And,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A War Song to Englishmen William Blake	The Norman William, and the learnèd Clerk, And Lion Heart, and black-brow'd Edward, with His loyal queen, shall rise, and welcome...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Woeful New Ballad Of The Protestant Conspiracy To Take The Pope’s Life William Makepeace Thackeray	'What hever can be easier,' said this Clerk—this Man of Sin, 'When you are called to hoperate on His Holiness's chin, Than just to give...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Worm Will Turn William Schwenck Gilbert	) A poor attorney's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Above Crow's Nest [Sydney] Henry Lawson	The tired, bowed mechanic And pallid clerk flit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adam John Kendall Dum-Dum	'The Blacksmith in his Sunday things, The Clerk that leaves his till, Can give their thoughts of labour wings, And frolic as they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Al Purdy Honoured Douglas Blair	— that lovers live and desk clerks...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Alibi Ambrose Bierce	Clerk, bailiff, constables and all Heard Morpheus sound the trumpet call To arms-his arms-and all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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