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A Meditation On Rhode-Island Coal William Cullen Bryant	Of hewing thee to chimney-pieces talked, And grew profane--and swore, in bitter scorn, That men might to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Vision Out West Barcroft Boake	Hewing canals whose banks are fringed by willows bending deeply down To waters flowing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ah Ling, The Leper Edward George Dyson	Planing, sawing, nailing, hewing—just a skin and bone...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Living John Boyle O'Reilly	And go on hewing for a far ideal, — This were a life worth giving to a cause, If cause be found so worth a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Masters kiandavid	Waves have a heavier, more massive language, Hewing closer to the literal, the actual, the flesh— Bastardy the wind may never have meant to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mogg Megone - Part I. John Greenleaf Whittier	And slow through the rock its pathway...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mother and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning	'Twere imbecile, hewing out roads to a wall ; And, when Italy 's made, for what end is it done If we have not a son...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On A Great Hollow Tree William Strode	Halfe so much hunger for his punishment As hewing this would doe by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet Sir Henry Parkes	A score of men, in coarse habiliments, Hewing the rock...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Spring On The River Archibald Lampman	With sound of hewing and hammering nails, Planing and painting and swinging pails, All day in their shrill...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Black Hawk War of the Artists Vachel Lindsay	Warriors of Art, We will hold council there, Hewing in stone Things to the trapper fair, Painting the gray Veils that the spring moons wear, This...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Discipline Of Wisdom George Meredith	So following her, your hewing may attain The right to speak unto the mute, and shun That sly temptation of the illumined...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Downy Woodpecker John Burroughs	hatchet's muffled sound Hewing in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dungeon Luke A, Fink	For us to keep Swords be a swinging Axes be a hewing Blood be a spilling Gold be a spewing to all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hoosier Hew Ainslie	Such as chopping and hewing and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lumbermen John Greenleaf Whittier	Manhood's rugged play Still renewing, bravely hewing Through the world our...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Night Shelter Basil Fillis	There's hewing, hacking, spewing out; Thus, in the day, they scrape...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prairies William Cullen Bryant	Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Roll of the Kettledrum Adam Lindsay Gordon	Steeds rearing and plunging, men hacking and hewing, Fierce grinding of sword-blades, sharp goading of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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