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Her Name Is Beauty
K.NG
herself would look at you with a bit of detestation
For your radiant skin is something only goddesses could boast...
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Exposure of a Caste
Deborah Burris-Kitchen
and fury for any person of color that proves,
even with your exploitation and alienation,...
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A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix And Timothy
Jonathan Swift
So thou art grown the detestation
Of all thy party through the nation:
Thy peevish and perpetual teasing
With plots, and...
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Forever green
Shashini Pabasara Kularathna
To lean
And watch and chill

Deforestation
With detestation
Can downturn green
And decline nature
Fruits that are immature
Don't have a...
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Plans of the Heart
Richard Newton Sherrer
Those of having pride in the heart,
A detestation to the Lord;
His wrath for punishing to thwart,
When His warnings have been...
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Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
Jonathan Swift
To merit humbled in the dust;
  The detestation you express
  For vice in all its glitt'ring dress;
  That patience under torturing pain,
 ...
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Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
Jonathan Swift
To merit humbled in the dust;
The detestation you express
For vice in all its glitt'ring dress;
That patience under torturing pain,...
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Stella's Birthday, March 13, 1726
Jonathan Swift
To merit humbled in the dust;
The detestation you express
For vice in all its glittering dress:
That patience under to torturing pain,...
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The Scourge of Villainy
John Marston
Fair Detestation of foul odious sin,
  In which our swinish times lie wallowing,
  Be thou my conduct and...
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The Tear
George Gordon Lord Byron
But the hypocrite's wile,
To mask detestation, or fear;
  Give me the soft sigh,
  Whilst the soultelling eye
Is dimm'd, for a time, with...
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The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts)
Samuel Johnson
90 And detestation rids th' indignant...
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The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Im
Samuel Johnson
The form distorted justifies the fall,
  And detestation rids th' indignant...
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Unity
Nikhil Parekh
divine,
With irony; comes detestation,
With shivering; comes nervousness,
With amalgamation; comes power,
With emancipation;...
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