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A Ballad of Freedom Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Besides their meek servility, Gentility - gentility Forbade so rash an act; but still One man there was - (his name was Bill) Who...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prouder Man Than You Henry Lawson	If you think that your profession has the more gentility, And that you are condescending to be seen along with me; If you notice that I'm shabby...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Devil's Walk On Earth, The Robert Southey	A cottage of gentility, And he own'd with a grin That his favorite sin, Is pride that apes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Emotion Or Volition Wallace Dean LaBenne	Love as clear volition makes for gentility Love as mere emotion makes for fragility Love as clear volition makes for nubility Love as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fashion fades Mgbada chukwudi cletus	fades; wedding attracts gentility not military agility and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
No! Thomas Hood	No Park, no Ring, no afternoon gentility-- No company--no nobility-- No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nothing At All In the Paper Today Anonymous Americas	(Though all gentility cries out,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pitching Popcorn For Valentine’s Glenn Marchand	compassion—to need to be affectionate: soft tug, gentility, appropriate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poetic Justice Wallace Dean LaBenne	Kindness and gentility seem like barren...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poetic Justice* Wallace Dean LaBenne	Kindness and gentility seem like barren...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the St Thomas Hardy	A type of decayed gentility; And by some small signs he well can guess That she comes to him almost...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sic transit gloria mundi Emily Dickinson	Mortality is fatal— Gentility is fine, Rascality, heroic, Insolvency,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Snippets (Some pims) L. Larry Amadore	decay with her mild gentility...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Devil's Thoughts Samuel Taylor Coleridge	A cottage of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Everlasting Gospel William Blake	Give any marks of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto VI Edmund Spenser	All civill usage and gentility, And gentle sprite deforme with rude...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Scapegoat Andrew Barton Paterson	That being a Gentile's no mark of gentility, And, according to Samuel, would certainly d--n you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vulgar Little Lady Ann Taylor	deal Than maids, and such people as they....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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