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Couplets about their Subjects, #2 (Alms). Kaleb Suedfeld	Covetous, starved, dry of lips, devoid of bread, Pay your tributes my way, lest you be in my...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
REALITY-WARNING Norbert Tasev	Happy now can only he be Who, with confident and covetous cupidity, The fragile-footed happiness found, That sought not, but only listened to his...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Solitude Joe Strickland	A covetous yearning, a deep-seated desire, For a moment of peace, a quiet...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Riaxo	So let go the green, the covetous leer, Embrace your own, hold it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
"Thou Shalt Not ..." Kurt Philip Behm	Where old injunctions miss their mark a covetous reminder Desirous of another’s place —the devil painted green (Dreamsleep: March,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
# 526 States of Emotion Jean Gorney	I'm covetous of others' stalwartness When things are not quite as they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Greater Love Elizabeth Waterton Carlisle	Of this earth I am My body locked in your covetous embrace Every fiber Screaming of love Of mortal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Book1 Prologue Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi	The pitcher of the desire of the covetous never fills, The oyster-shell fills not with pearls till it is content; Only he whose garment...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dark Embrace Alexander Rosenkrantz	Covetous, compromised ruling class, complicit, this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Deep Thought in Suffix- ion Noah Trahan	are feeding my extreme starvation, I'm covetous for discernment, and craving...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Envy Sits Alone Kurt Philip Behm	covetous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
For President, Leland Stanford Ambrose Bierce	Mahomet Stanford, with covetous stare, Gazed on a vision surpassingly fair:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gotham. Book I. Charles Churchill	Without enjoyment, covetous of pelf, Tiresome to friends, and tiresome to himself; His faculties impair'd, his temper...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Heavenly Sham Kurt Philip Behm	Seeking to own what they can’t understand A covetous folly —a heavenly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hero And Leander. The Fifth Sestiad George Chapman	The hard streets were beds For covetous churls and for ambitious heads, That, spite of Nature, would their business ply: All thought...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Honeybee's Die Kurt Philip Behm	in your verse Covetous of those words you read, jealous—maybe...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Invern Ezra Pound	Or crouch covetous of warmth O'er scant-logged ingle blaze, Must take cramped joy in tomed Longinus That, read I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Knife-Grinder, The George Canning	Covetous parson, for his tithes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Nicholas Breton	Wanton love is too unholy; Greedy love is covetous; Idle love is frivolous; But the gracious love is it That doth prove the work of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun William Cowper	Why, stooping from the noon of day, Too covetous of drink, Apollo, hast thou stolen away A poet’s drop of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of Humility. From Proverbial Philosophy Martin Farquhar Tupper	A gift rejoiceth the covetous, and praise fatteneth the vain, And the pride of man delighteth in the humble bearing of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of The Right Honourable The Lord Viscount Bayning William Strode	No Citizen so covetous could be Of getting wealth, as of bestowing, He; His Body and Estate went as they came, Stript...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Planh For The Young English King Ezra Pound	Who made the freest hand seem...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Psalm 119 part 11 Isaac Watts	Let no corrupt design, Nor covetous desires, arise Within this soul of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Repentance William Wordsworth	THE fields which with covetous spirit we sold, Those beautiful fields,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)