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America is Dead and So Am I H.L. Dowless	from town to town, wherever gainful possibilities might still be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Born To Be Playful Wallace Dean LaBenne	Born to be gainful, to be wealthy, to be flush; to be loaded and prosperous, to be comfy, to be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. Samuel Johnson	This task perform'd - he sought no gainful post Nor wish'd to glitter at his country's cost; Strict on the right he fix'd his stedfast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Extend complete sway Hasmukh Mehta	He has many faces for gainful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Externalism Robert William Service	For gainful guys like you and me, It still can be extremely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Holy Sonnet XI: Spit In My Face You Jews, And Pierce My Side John Donne	But to supplant, and with gainful intent: God clothed himself in vile man's flesh, that so He might be weak enough to suffer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode II: To Sleep Mark Akenside	The sober gainful arts of modern days To such romantic thoughts have bid a long...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode XIII: On Lyric Poetry Mark Akenside	Of wealthy care or gainful age; Whose barren souls thy joys disdain, And hold as foes to reason's reign Whome'er thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Orlando Furioso Canto 1 Ludovico Ariosto	With his good hand most gainful succour lent, And slew most paynims in the martial...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
St. Matthew John Keble	Bade the meek Publican his gainful seat...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Succeptable To Suggestion Tracy Bollinger	Wicca as wisdom is a gainful employ, but left-handed offense is pagan...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce; Or, The Slave-Trader In The Dumps William Cowper	in vain I have studied an art So gainful to me, all boasting apart, I think it will break my compassionate heart, Which nobody,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The King Of Denmark's Sons William Morris	And each morrow of fight was a gainful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To James Norton Esq. Charles Harpur	“But fame he sought not through a gainful hand” (This of my being let future tell), “Nor through the arts of popular...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
We are all sinners Tahir Rabiu Musa	Sometimes, truthful when it gainful Truthful, when it touches the interior side And sometimes because it a habit to be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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