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A Voyage To Cythera Charles Baudelaire	What we saw was a gibbet, made of three great...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Voyage To Cythera - (Twelve Translations From Charles Baudelaire) J. C. Squire	Naught save mine image on a gibbet thrust Found I on Venus island...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Watch In The Night Algernon Charles Swinburne	- Cannon and scaffold and sword, Horror of gibbet and cord, Mowed us as sheaves for the grave, Mowed us down for the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ad Astra George Essex Evans	“The cell, the cross, the gibbet, and the chain— Thus have ye crowned, O World, your mighty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An 'Exhibit' Ambrose Bierce	In shame upon the gibbet Be set before the public eye As an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Appeal Algernon Charles Swinburne	Cries for surety of blood, Help of gibbet and grave; Neither is any land great Whom, in her fear-stricken mood, These things only can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt) George Gordon Lord Byron	The gibbet or the field prepar'd to grace; A mighty mixture of the great and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epitaph on Don Francisco John Arbuthnot	Something worthy of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States Walt Whitman	men; The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Francois Villon Eugene Field	We both would mock the gibbet which the law has lifted high; _He_ in his meager, shabby home, _I_ in my roaring den-- He...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Garrison Amos Bronson Alcott	Nor politician nor base citizen Could gibbet thee, nor silence, nor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Guilt and Sorrow William Wordsworth	He looked, and saw upon a gibbet high A human body that in irons swang, Uplifted by the tempest whirling by; And,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudson's Last Voyage Henry Van Dyke	Of some tall gibbet on the Channel cliffs, While passing mariners look up and say: "Those are the rotten bones...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Llewellen Powell Ambrose Bierce	And your chains at last are broken When the gibbet's chilling shade Ceases darkly to enfold you, And the angel who enrolled you As a master of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
No Neck-Tie Party Robert William Service	Who say the gibbet's wrong and so At thirty-five they let me go, Tat I may sail the across the sea A killer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Platform Ambrose Bierce	Till I slept; and I dreamed of a gibbet reared high, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Preston Letitia Elizabeth Landon	But dark looms the gibbet on high in the air, While the shuddering gaze turns from the sight that is there...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Resurrection Keith M. Kendrick	Flying round a creaking gibbet Their hollow rattle points the compass; Returns less mute with hanging...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf III. -- Thora Of Rimol Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Two ghastly heads on the gibbet are swinging; One is Jarl Hakon's and one is his thrall's, And the people are shouting...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tampa Robins Sidney Lanier	If that I hate wild winter's spite -- The gibbet trees, the world in white, The sky but gray wind over a grave -- Why should I ache, the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Temple de la Douleur Harry Crosby	The gallows and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Burghers Thomas Hardy	From Pummery-Tout to where the Gibbet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Careless Good Fellow John Oldham	41 I'll drink in defiance of gibbet, and halter, 42 This is the profession, that never will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cemetary Of Eylau Victor Marie Hugo	The crucifix looked like a gibbet vast; The snow still fell; the fire died out at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dream of Freedom Owen Suffolk	Looked like a gibbet 'gainst the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)