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The Co-Existence of Two Strange Bedfellows Karl Constantine FOLKES	They remain with us today as maxims, tenets and...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Damnation Kurt Philip Behm	judgment on file So spew out your maxims and dig in your heels As millions will die for what you think you feel The universe...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Experience Jane Taylor	The cautious maxims that our fathers told, We place new objects in the fairest light, And offer generous friendship...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Stored with all maxims of a statelier age; These are her lessons for our northern blood, With its dark Saxon madness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song Of Servitude. Eric Mackay	These are the maxims that I take to heart, Do thou accept them, reader, for thine own; Love well thy work; be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Voice from the Town Andrew Barton Paterson	Unheeded all warnings, unheeded The maxims of elders...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Address to the Unco Guid Robert Burns	My Son, these maxims make a rule, An' lump them aye thegither; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To William Hogarth. Charles Churchill	Thou hast assumed the maxims of that elf, Whom God in wrath, for man's dishonour framed, Cunning in heaven, amongst us...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bill The Bomber Robert William Service	And the Maxims got us sideways, and the bullets faster flew, And I copped one on me flipper, and says I:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chamfort Carl Sandburg	Talking and talking gay maxims and grim...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Comrades An Episode Robert Nichols	' Meanwhile the Maxims toc-toc-tocked: their swish Of bullets told death lurked against the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dedication To Churchill's Sermons. Charles Churchill	Explode his maxims and assert their own) Might teach me, like himself, to be content, And let their folly be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Driver Smith Andrew Barton Paterson	"Wherever the rifle bullets flash and the Maxims raise a din, It's here you'll find the Medical men a-raking the wounded in -- A-raking 'em...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Early Rising John Godfrey Saxe	Observes some solemn, sentimental owl; Maxims like these are very cheaply said; But, ere you make yourself a fool or fowl, Pray just...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Edwin and Eltrada, a Legendary Tale Helen Maria Williams	The maxims of a servile age, The mean, the selfish care, The sordid views that now engage The mercenary...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eland’s River George Essex Evans	Our Maxims jammed: We faced them with one muzzle-loading...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XVIII. He Repeats the Song of Colin, a Discerning Shepherd William Shenstone	But what avail the maxims I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Honours - Part2 Jean Ingelow	Of customs, modes, and maxims, cumbrance rare, Shall the Myself be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 38 part 2 Isaac Watts	But thy blest maxims be our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Imitation Of Anacreon Matthew Prior	Pleasure shall triumph over Fame: And when these Maxims I decline, Apollo, may Thy Fate be Mine: May I grasp at empty Praise; And lose the Nymph, to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Kelly Of The Legion Robert William Service	Where Huns with Maxims waited, He plunged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Looking Unto Jesus John Newton	By various maxims, forms and rules, That pass for wisdom in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Merlin And Vivien Alfred Lord Tennyson	Gracious lessons thine And maxims of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Motives Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	But if her mother can succeed In gaining for her maxims heed, And softening the girl's heart too, So that she coyly shuns our view,-- The heart of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Occasion'd By Reading The Memoirs Of Anne Of Austria Mary Barber	Study the Maxims of the Florentine; Who, void of Virtue, anxious to be great, Would rise, tho' on the Ruins of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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