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Portrait of The City in Gray Don Stephens	vultures on carrion scent, singing the song of the city telling of free hands never taken nor...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
Each Heart Is Called Naomi Fowke	I will not sit Like a lording carrion crow On judgment's fence Ever returning To pick over The carcass of the past Nor, will...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
The Bull Ralph Hodgson	Left him there for carrion, Vilely from their bosom cast Wisdom, worth and love at...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Choice Algernon Charles Swinburne	Made Caesar carrion and made Brutus God, Faith false or true, born patriot or born priest, Smites into semblance or...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Creed John Masefield	In gibes, and mocks, and many a tear, A carrion flock of homing-birds, The gibes and scorns I uttered...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Death More Horrific Than What Death Could Ever Be Nikhil Parekh	I didn't know whether to become a live carrion for the egregiously cannibalistic vultures; or whether to surprisingly come in front of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A March Charles Kingsley	Ranks which thin as corpses thicken; While with carrion birds we eat, Calling puddle-water sweet, As we pledge the health of our general, who fares...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Mirage William Schwenck Gilbert	The rose's sigh Were as a carrion's cry To lullaby Such as I'd sing to thee - Were I thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Mirage. William Schwenck Gilbert	The rose's sigh Were as a carrion's cry To lullaby Such as I'd sing to thee, Were I thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pound of My Flesh jasminehchristian	it was quickly eaten by the carrion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Sonnet of Faith William Gay	I see the victor on his carrion stand, And see in impious blood the vanquished sink, Yea, even behold where waits the delvèd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Te Deum Alfred Austin	And the savour of summer days, For the swoop of carrion kites, And the stench of gibbeted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abd-El-Kader At Toulon Or, The Caged Hawk William Makepeace Thackeray	And the carrion buzzards round him stooped, faithless, to the cast, And the wild hawk of the desert is caught...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abel And Cain Charles Baudelaire	Race of Abel, carrion, Manure to feed the steaming...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Admiral Guinea William Ernest Henley	The carrion strung at EXECUTION DOCK; And the trim Slaver, with her raking rig, Her cloud of sails, her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Altar Stone Michael Walker	in thirst for life, chills feed midnight's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Alphabet Of Old Friends Walter Crane	A carrion crow sat on an oak, Watching a tailor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
As If The Most Ultimate Of Kings. Nikhil Parekh	feeding every ounce of my wretchedly decaying carrion; to the hideously scavenging and cold-blooded...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At The West India Docks Francis William Lauderdale Adams	I saw the shape of the Idol like a Queen turned carrion, Yet crowned and more terrific thus for her human fleshly loss, And with one clenched hand...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Battle Of Brunanburgh Alfred Lord Tennyson	Many a carcase they left to be carrion, Many a livid one, many a sallow-skin-- Left for the white-tail'd eagle to tear...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bird Song Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	I detest the Carrion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bird Song - Crow Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	I detest the Carrion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church, Rome, The Robert Browning	He graced his carrion with, God curse the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Blessedly Alive Nikhil Parekh	excoriating apart its gruesomely stinking carrion, If you bequeathed upon me the honor; of feeling just your single breath; which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Boadicea Alfred Lord Tennyson	Blacken round the Roman carrion, make the carcase a skeleton, Kite and kestrel, wolf and wolfkin, from the wilderness, wallow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)