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Poem Ezra Pound	Night, In the silence desultory men Pottering over small fires, cleaning their mess-tins: To and fro, from the lines, Men walk...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
Aeolian Harp, The Samuel Taylor Coleridge	How by the desultory breeze caress'd, Like some coy maid half-yielding to her lover, It pours such sweet upbraiding,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle: (To N.A.) William Watson	The high enigmas to rehearse, And touch with desultory tongue Secrets no man from Night hath...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Between The Rapids Archibald Lampman	With faint-heard song or desultory call: Oh comrades hold; the longest reach is past; The stream runs swift, and we are flying...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Composed At Clevedon, Somersetshire Samuel Taylor Coleridge	How by desultory breeze...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fireflies Rabindranath Tagore	in these desultory...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Grave William Ernest Henley	The sober Sabbath stir - Leisurely voices, desultory...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Inscription William Lisle Bowles	Save when fancy, musing long, Turns to desultory song; And wakes some lonely melody, Like the water dripping...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Marmion: Introduction to Canto III. Sir Walter Scott	To raise the desultory...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
New Morality George Canning	And wakes and points the desultory...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rokeby: Canto III. Sir Walter Scott	Plying war's desultory trade, Incursion, flight, and ambuscade, Since Nimrod, Cush's mighty son, At first the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet LXV: Known in Vain Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Thenceforth their incommunicable ways Follow the desultory feet of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Soul-Drift Mathilde Blind	On fleeting gusts of desultory song, I let my soul drift out into the Spring; The Psyche flies and palpitates among ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Aeolian Harp Samuel Taylor Coleridge	How by the desultory breeze caress'd, Like some coy maid half-yielding to her lover, It pours such sweet upbraiding,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Eolian Harp Samuel Taylor Coleridge	How by the desultory breeze caress'd, Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover, It pours such sweet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Missionary - Canto Sixth William Lisle Bowles	Then thus renewed the desultory strain: Yes, yes, we must...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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