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A Friend Of Mine. James Barron Hope	Rich thought hidden in the basest thing, Which he transmuted into golden words, So that in hearing him I often...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Last Appeal Edith Nesbit	First in your palace, or last in our den, Basest or best, we are all of us...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Man And His Image Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Though I be basest of my old red clan, They shall not scale, with cries or sacrifice, The stature of the spirit of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satyre Against Mankind John Wilmot	Which is the basest Creature Man, or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Afridi Love Violet Nicolson	All of life's best and basest you must...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Christ's Triumph after Death (excerpts) Giles Fletcher The Younger	With blasphemies by all the basest tore, Now worshipped by Angels, that him low...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cur And Mastiff. John Gay	"Trust not to curs of basest station, With itching palms - a plot is laid, And man and master are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epigrams William Watson	Pluck'd by his hand, the basest weed that grows Towers to a lily, reddens to a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Exultation Emma Lazarus	Of whom the basest have their aspirations, High impulses of courage or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Seditionem Horrendam, Corruptelis Gallicus Ut Fertue, Londini Nuper Exortam William Cowper	She hires the worst and basest of our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
John Lackland George Meredith	And thou, John Lackland, despicable prince - Basest of England's banes before or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Licia Sonnets 28 Giles Fletcher The Elder	The basest thoughts we see in time aspire, And greedy minds in time do wealth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion. Satire VII. Edward Young	No mask in basest minds ambition wears, But in full light pricks up her ass's ears: All I have sung are instances...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue Spoken at the Opening of The New House, March 26, 1674 John Dryden	And, like his stamp, makes basest metal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Queen Mab: Part III. Percy Bysshe Shelley	Even to the basest appetites-that man Heeds not the shriek of penury; he smiles At the deep curses which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ribbons Thomas Richard Prendergast	Hailing our basest ability Ribbons for wars we all lose...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Run to Death Amy Levy	Tho' a woman be the lowest, and the basest, and least fair, In your manliness forget not to respect her womanhood, And thou, gipsy, that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen William Shakespeare	Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet 40: As Good To Write Sir Philip Sidney	That hast my mind, none of the basest, brought My still-kept course, while others sleep, to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Beasts' Confession Jonathan Swift	I broke my fast: But I defy the basest tongue To prove I did my neighbour wrong; Or ever went to seek my food By rapine, theft, or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dead King Rudyard Kipling	He spoke and exacted the truth, and the basest believed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dread Of Height Francis Thompson	Most hapless I Turn utterly to love of basest rate; For low they fall whose fall is from the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The New Year John Greenleaf Whittier	And he,2 the basest of the base The vilest of the vile, whose name, Embalmed in infinite disgrace, Is deathless in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Plate Of Gold James Henry Leigh Hunt	his finger's first touch it changed to basest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sleeping City George Meredith	Leans listening, now when every breast Its basest or its purest heaves, The soul that joys, the soul that grieves;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)