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Compassion Robert William Service	As cold as clay; But as I had no silver groat To give, I buttoned up my coat And turned...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Jack-At-All-Views Ambrose Bierce	Well paid if he bestowed the kindly groat And spoke you fair and called you pretty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter From Artemesia In The Town To Chloe In The Country John Wilmot	God never made a coxcomb worth a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pair Jane Taylor	From the Land's End to Johnny Groat's ; And thousands such have swelled the herd From William, down to George the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Book I. Epistle VII. Alexander Pope	Betwixt a guinea and a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Economy, A Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets William Shenstone	only lost thou dost not lose. Even for a demi-groat this open'd soul, This boon companion, this elastic breast, Revibrates quick; and sends the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
ElegyXI: The Bracelet John Donne	Well-pleas'd with one lean threadbare groat, for hire, May like a devil roar through every street, And gall the finder's conscience, if...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Horace, Epist. I, VII Imitation Of Horace To Lord Oxford Jonathan Swift	Not rich, but owed no man a groat; In state opinions a la mode, He hated Wharton like a toad; Had given the faction many a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lieutenant-Colonel Flare William Schwenck Gilbert	Though ranking as a Colonel, His pay was but a groat, While their reward diurnal Was - each a five-pound...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Monday Morning Mourning Clothes James Kirkpatrick	On labors’ scuffled quest for groat, The perfect fit for working...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Posteriors Jonathan Swift	Who neither get nor lose a groat; For none,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Robbie's Statue Henry Lawson	” ‘But what if he had come to them ‘Without a groat and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rosabella - Purity Of Heart George Moses Horton	And not one groat a mortal wit avail Upon his last return; Be this the creature's faithful prayer, That...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Careless Good Fellow John Oldham	38 Or come faggot, and stake; I care not a groat; 39 Never think that in Smithfield I porters will heat: 40 No, I swear,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cock And The Fox: Or, The Tale Of The Nun's Priest John Dryden	She duly paid a groat for quarter rent; And pinched her belly, with her daughters two, To bring the year about with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Duellist - Book III Charles Churchill	Who would not risk one groat for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Friar's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer	By God, I shall him quiten* every...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Gipsy's Camp John Clare	And Squire and Lord were purchased with a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Last Rhyme Of True Thomas Rudyard Kipling	" The King cast down a silver groat, A silver groat o' Scots money, "If I come wi' a poor man's dole," he said, "True Thomas,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XV Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	See one who has lost a pound for every groat, For every penny of your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Red King Charles Kingsley	He gave the shipmen mark and groat, To ferry him over to Normandie, And there he fell to sanctuarie; God send his soul all bliss...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)