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Experience Jane Taylor	But grief extorts conviction ; brings to view Those slightest words, and answers--'very...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Family Record Oliver Wendell Holmes	voices join, For no quartette extorts their scanty coin; Then while both hands their black-gloved palms display, Lifts his gray...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Advice To Believe In Christ Rees Prichard	Unless thy faith extorts this grace divine, And makes the renovated creature shine, It is in vain;- it answers to no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To William Hogarth. Charles Churchill	Virtue from Vice itself extorts applause: Her very foes bear witness to her state; They will not love her, but they cannot...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn George Gordon Lord Byron	Your strong yet just reproof extorts applause From me, the heedless and imprudent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Answer To Some Elegant Verses Sent By A Friend To The Author, Complaining That One Of His Descriptions Was Rather Too Warmly Drawn. George Gordon Byron	Your strong yet just reproof extorts applause From me, the heedless and imprudent cause; For this wild error, which pervades my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistles To Mr. Pope. Epistle II. From Oxford. Edward Young	Provokes the muse, extorts Apollo's curse: His sacred influence never should be sold: 'Tis arrant simony to sing for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
February Thomas Chatterton	Now Drury's potent kind extorts applause, And pit, box, gallery, echo, "how...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In What World Joseph Flick	That exploits and extorts and strives To turn their lives into mayhem And so you ask, “In what world”, and I say “In...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Letters To Anna (part 1) Christine Elaine Gwaltney	Your Deathmark- A Yellow-Ribboned Pize, Extorts more than my eyes; Disperses, then flicks my soul- Words steadfast in sphector strophe;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode--Shell the Old City! Shell! William Gilmore Simms	Each roof that falls, The pang extorts the tear, That things so precious, dear To memory, love, and care, Sink with our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Secret Friedrich Schiller	'Tis thus that man, with toil ne'er ending Extorts from heaven his daily bread; Yet oft unseen the Gods are sending The gifts of fortune on his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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