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Petition Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	OH thou sweet maiden fair, Thou with the raven hair, Why to the window go? While gazing down below, Art standing vainly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Petition Mike	Have you ever been arrested for possession Possession of your doctor prescribed medication Didn't know that was legal could cops be that corrupt My...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Search Me, O Lord” (A Prayer of Petition) Karl Constantine FOLKES	PART A: Coram Deo; domine, probasti me. Search me, O Lord, Thou hast me tried. Guide me onward to the straight path. For you too long have I...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
PETITION FROM PURGATORY Marshall K. McGregor	My last winter is soon to come and the kids are already on fire As I look back at their burning ashes rising in the human smoke like...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Beech Tree's Petition Thomas Campbell	O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! Though bush or floweret never grow My dark unwarming shade below; Nor summer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I will Petition the gods DONG-BONGMAH DONATUS DASSAH	It’s a social dislocation; leaders are served They thrive on the sweat of the disadvantaged majority As they give with the right hand, so they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Petition of a Patriot of Our Constitution Larry Tucker	The Constitution of The United States Was created by the Guardian of our nation And is the established document for United Order and Operation With...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ghost's Petition Christina Rossetti	‘There’s a footstep coming: look out and see,’ ‘The leaves are falling, the wind is calling; No one cometh across the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dogs Petition Ehsan Sehgal	We have eyes, ears, tongue, And also legs However, we don't have the hands We also have not the words To express our feelings But we have the sense ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Alchemist's Petition Vachel Lindsay	Thou wilt not sentence to eternal life My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep Like a white statue dropped into the deep, Covered with sand,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Petition Amy Lowell	I pray to be the tool which to your hand Long use has shaped and moulded till it be Apt for your need, and, unconsideringly, You take it for its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Petition Thomas Bailey Aldrich	To spring belongs the violet, and the blown Spice of the roses let the summer own. Grant me this favor, Muse--all else withhold-- That I may not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lover's Petition Ralph Waldo Emerson	Good Heart, that ownest all! I ask a modest boon and small: Not of lands and towns the gift,-- Too large a load for me to lift,-- But for one proper...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Widow Gordon's Petition Mary Barber	To the Right Hon. the Lady...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mrs Frances Haris's Petition Jonathan Swift	The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve and die a maid if it miscarries; Humble sheweth, that I went to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Georgina Rossetti	'There's a footstep coming: look out and see,' 'The leaves are falling, the wind is calling; No one cometh across the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Petition To Time Barry Cornwall	TOUCH us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream. Humble voyagers are We, Husband,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Petition for an Absolute Retreat Anne Kingsmill Finch	Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost and trees so high That the world may ne'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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