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A Farewell Alfred Austin	For you the curved-backed sexton need not stir The mould, for there is nothing to inter, No worn integument to doff, No...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad Of The Kind Little Creatures Richard Le Gallienne	Over the sexton's grave The growing grass Cried out: "Come...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pot Of Tea Robert William Service	And if I don't give some poor bloke a sexton's job to do, To-night, by Fritz's campfire, won't I 'ave a gorgeous brew (For fightin'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song Of The Seasons William Cosmo Monkhouse	And wine for the old, And a sexton in the churchyard Digging in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Christian Burial. Robert Crawford	As the old Jew who, by Beth-Peor, had God for a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Churchill's Grave: A Fact Literally Rendered George Gordon Lord Byron	He died before my day of Sextonship, And I had not the digging of this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Curfew Shall Not Ring To-Night William F Kirk	She ban talking to the sexton, and ban feeling purty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
December Georg Trakl	One still sees the sexton in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
December Sonnet Georg Trakl	A bleak tree is a sleeper's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dirge For The Year Percy Bysshe Shelley	January gray is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and rave, And April...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dow Kritt Edgar Lee Masters	Nor destroying insect, as the sexton...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Each And All Ralph Waldo Emerson	Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Earth's Immortalities Robert Browning	Spite of the sexton's browsing horse, the sods Have struggled through its binding osier rods; Headstone and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Faces Walt Whitman	This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee; An unceasing death-bell tolls...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Faithless Sally Brown Thomas Hood	They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fidele's Grassy Tomb Sir Henry Newbolt	He sent for the Sexton and bade him make A lonely grave by the shore of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Her Late Husband (King's-Hintock, 182-.) Thomas Hardy	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hughley Steeple Alfred Edward Housman	North, for a soon-told number, Chill graves the sexton delves, And steeple-shadowed slumber The slayers of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I cannot live with You (No. 640) Emily Dickinson	And Life is over there-- Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to-- Putting up Our Life--His Porcelain-- Like a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In High Life Ambrose Bierce	While good Sir John Satan attended the door And Sexton Beelzebub managed the floor, Respectfully keeping each dog to its rug, Preserving the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - part 01 Torquato Tasso	Up rose the sexton of that place profane, And missed the image, where it used to lie, Each where he sough in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
June William Cullen Bryant	And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
LA PENALE (The Fine) Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli	Sent out the sexton for me, And inflicted me the penalty for that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mozart’s Grave Alfred Austin	The sexton asked, ``What may this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Days Isaac Rosenberg	Time, like a sexton, pileth mould on mould, Minutes on minutes till the tombs are high ; But from the dust there...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)