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A Prayer from Distress TommyD	My outward trouble , and inward distress Is just a reflection , this world is a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prologue - To A Play For Mr Dennis's Benefit, In 1733, When He Was Old, Blind, And In Great Distress, A Little Before His Death. Alexander Pope	As when that hero, who, in each campaign, Had braved the Goth, and many a Vandal slain, Lay fortune-struck, a spectacle of woe! Wept by each friend,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Distress Beacon Menachem Rephun	Night settles like black wire on the runway Concealing the fuselage, the chromium hull The long gash of wing-tips piercing the darkness. Rain crashes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Distress Call Gelene Beverly	My friend you're in distress, Please give me your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Distress Cry Richard Newton Sherrer	Hear my prayer, O Lord, I plea for mercy; Not to be ignored, Answer Your decree. In Your righteousness, Enter not judgement; Showing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Distress Sale Raymond Carver	Early one Sunday morning everything outside - the child's canopy bed and vanity table, the sofa, end tables and lamps, boxes of assorted books and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XX. He Compares His Humble Fortune With the Distress of Others William Shenstone	Why droops this heart with fancied woes forlorn? Why sinks my soul beneath this wintry sky? What pensive crowds, by ceaseless labours worn, What...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
LOST SOULS IN DISTRESS Phil Roberts	Distress by what life has given them, And when it seems best to give up Only the love of their kids has driven...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. And From A View Of The Painting Of Mr. Richard Wilson Phillis Wheatley	Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring Of ills innum'rous, tuneful goddess, sing! Thou who did'st first th' ideal pencil give, And taught'st the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet: On seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep at a tale of distress William Wordsworth	She wept.--Life's purple tide began to flow In languid streams through every thrilling vein; Dim were my swimming eyes--my pulse beat slow, And my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Distress'd Travellers; or, Labour in Vain William Cowper	I. I sing of a journey to Clifton, We would have perform'd if we could, Without cart or barrow to lift on Poor Mary and me through the mud; Slee,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Yearly Distress; Or, Tithing-Time At Stock In Essex William Cowper	Come, ponder well, for 'tis no jest, To laugh it would be wrong; The troubles of a worthy priest The burden of my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Friend In Distress (Translated From Owen) William Cowper	I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend; For when at worst, they say, things always...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698 John Dryden	'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age, As damns not only poets, but the stage. That sacred art, by heaven itself infused, Which Moses,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Written For A Gentlewoman In Distress, To Her Grace Adelida, Dutchess Of Shrewsbury. Mary Barber	Might I inquire the Reasons of my Fate, Or with my Maker dare expostulate; Did I, in prosp'rous Days, despise the Poor, Or drive the friendless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Allure in distress TAYYBA NOREEN	Discomforts in my writings, a burden I must bear Surviving it all, though the darkness I must share Tears roll down my face, and no one is there ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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