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Magi Corneigh Hoff	cold famine on the way wishing for a house of bread or an inn, at least murder on the way sniping from...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
-The Scar's Enchanted- Marsha Schunemann	She's weathered the weather, war and famine, and still feels as though she's not...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Joseph Israel Chinonye Uche	Then his brothers came to buy food in Egypt, because the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Many Never Hear It Richard Groff	It’s written: there’s a famine coming on the land, But not of hunger or...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
NEW AGE POETRY : DANCE of DEATH . Phanibhusan Basu	Cloud-burst , droughts ; floods or famine other so many ways...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Hebrew's Appeal Grace Aguilar	'Till want and famine mind and life consume, And sorrow's poison'd chalice, all is drain'd Oh God, that this should...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Last of the Light Brigade Rudyard Kipling	That though they were dying of famine, they lived in deathless...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Triumphant Believers Richard Newton Sherrer	Distress or nakedness thereof, Famine or peril be...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
In The Days BrotherJacob	earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and...	Rate it (4.00 / 2 votes)
Arms of the divine Lisa Campbell	Separated by war, plague and famine I walk towards her Breast plate and sword covered in dust and blood At last I am home...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
My Optimism Henry Louis White	Earth will have ironed out every flaw, Such as famine, racism, even...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
My prayer Perpetua Aperocho	abundance to prevent hunger And famine In a long...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
The White Man's Burden Rudyard Kipling	Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,...	Rate it (3.67 / 3 votes)
" The Great Unknown " Juan Rivera	Man suffers from war and famine, To evole, man must further...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
"My God" Kurt Philip Behm	More killed by religion in His holy name Than famine and pestilence ever can claim The tenets left foreign to God’s true intent Epiphanies...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
"Shouting" For A Camel Banjo Paterson Andrew Barton	If I give him any more there'll be a famine in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
'Shouting' For A Camel Andrew Barton Paterson	If I give him any more there'll be a famine in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A British PHILIPPIC Mark Akenside	With Famine sunk, the deep heart-bursting Groan Suppress'd in Silence; view the loathsome Food, Refus'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A couple of happy hearts Joey Black	me that love can be so strong, it can end famine, poverty, and even war For love is God's manifestation within man And why humans can't love...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Critic Ambrose Bierce	As folly, fame or famine smartly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue between Old England and New Anne Bradstreet	51 Is 't drought, is 't Famine, or is 't...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Last Confession Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Then I bethought me suddenly of the famine; And how the church-steps throughout all the town, When last I had been there a month ago,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Year's Address, 1870. Margaret Dixon McDougall	Let us but think of that beleaguered town Where famine's blackness sits in every face, War cutting thousands, want ten thousands...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Parisian Episode Ellis Parker Butler	The siege the sacre famine Then some had but a crust encore, We mange the last least ham-an' ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A poem, on the rising glory of America Hugh Henry Brackenridge	The shore so long unknown, thro' various toils, Famine and death, the hero made his way, Thro' oceans bestowing with eternal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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