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A Humble Beginning...Lesson Three Robert Catron	Lepers were made outcasts from their families and from...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
The Litanies Of Satan Charles Baudelaire	You who teach even lepers, accursed pariahs, through love itself the taste for Paradise, O Satan, take pity on my...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
General William Booth Enters into Heaven Vachel Lindsay	) Walking lepers followed, rank on rank, Lurching bravoes from the ditches dank, Drabs from the alleyways and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Helian Georg Trakl	Lepers behold their image in dark water; Or they lift the hemp of their dung soiled attire, And weep...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Homelessness philip lacey	The homeless young the social lepers No fixed abode no “room with a view” We’re on the edge we could be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
King Canute William Makepeace Thackeray	Loathsome lepers, if he touch them, start up clean upon their feet; Surely he could raise the dead up, did...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to a Sinister Dr. Seuss Caroline Claffey	they moan like the outcasts, the lepers, the ones on the fringes of society, the ones kept miserable and at bay by frosty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Only Those - part 2 Nikhil Parekh	disease rendering them as hapless lepers, Can envisage the grandeur of immaculate skin; the resplendent complexion sparkling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peaceful Mountain kaveh L. Afrasiabi	Who dares to throw you to the valley of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Protection from What Richard Groff	Jesus did not fear the touch of lepers And he could show it By reaching out his unprotected hand So, all would know it He...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE 500 PENNIES Phil Roberts	But we must have been lepers or something in those days For the buses took off whenever we came near, It seemed every...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Branded Hand John Greenleaf Whittier	They, the loathsome moral lepers, blotched from footsole up to crown, Give to shame what God hath given unto honor and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The King's Job Rudyard Kipling	He put on a leper's cloak (people leave lepers alone), Out of the window he broke, and abdicated his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Leper John Newton	Come lepers, seize the present hour, The Saviour's grace to prove; He can relieve, for he is pow'r, He...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prisoners Of Naples John Greenleaf Whittier	Bound with the felon lepers, whom disease And sins abhorred make loathsome; let them share Pellico's faith, Foresti's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prodigal Son James Weldon Johnson	The beggars and lepers of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ten Lepers Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	And His mournful gaze soon rested on ten lepers, who, afar, Stood motionless and suppliant, in sackcloth rudely clothed, Poor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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