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A Midday Winter Dream D. S. Fly	“I donned a chartreuse linen cotte Above the silk chemise Then fitted on a coral gown And sable-lined...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Beneath The Daisies Frank Kortuem	She lay down in a towel -- pillowed linen for the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Ol' Arrowman Adam Roachford	O'er silver linen with beadless snow Such times wherein crows bar the plagues As piercing inwards borrow...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Penelope Dorothy Parker	Brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
"entice" Steven Louis Chapman	Drift away on sheets of white linen, soft angel eyes, the sky's the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
"heather gray" Steven Louis Chapman	So soft her skin shades of white linen, Kayla smells of spring rain fallen on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
"I wish I were enough" Steven Louis Chapman	I can't help myself, she is white...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
"revenge" Steven Louis Chapman	white, draped in sheets, of white linen, tales to tell, to finish a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Cold Dooas. John Hartley	An a linen shirt makes but a poor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Description of a City Shower Jonathan Swift	Brisk Susan whips her Linen from the Rope, While the first drizzling Show'r is born aslope, Such is that Sprinkling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy Ogden Nash	add that a sachet is what many a housewife's linen is fragrantly entrusted to, But that a cliché is what a dog owner must eventually get adjusted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac. John Milton Hay	Wrapped in his pride and linen duster; Two noisy New York stockbrokers, And twenty British...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Glimpse Of China Francis William Lauderdale Adams	Behind a linen awning Sits an ancient wight half-dead, And a little dear of a girl is Examining — his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Glimpse Of China. In A Chair. Francis William Lauderdale Adams	Behind a linen awning Sits an ancient wight half-dead, And a little dear of a girl is Examining - his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Good Boy Robert Louis Stevenson	My bed is waiting cool and fresh, with linen smooth and fair, And I must be off to sleepsin-by, and not forget my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Martyr Charles Baudelaire	A flow of red blood, which the linen drinks up With a thirsty meadow's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Night At Dago Tom's John Masefield	Until we fetched to Land o' Nod atween the linen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Palace Of Dreams Nikhil Parekh	shirts of pure cotton floss, grey linen flannels hanging down, semicircular marble arches with potted plants, strips of black...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Peal Of Bells Christina Georgina Rossetti	Fast asleep; There's plaited linen round his head, While foremost go his feet— His feet that cannot carry...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Phantom Charles Baudelaire	In kisses of the linen and the silk, And with each charming movement, slow or quick, Display a cunning monkey's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Piccaninny James Brunton Stephens	Or any rag of consciousness or linen, Or anything that one could stick a pin...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prophecy : To George Keats In America John Keats	Its cradle still are in the lake, Though the linen that will be Its swathe, is on the cotton tree, Though the woollen that will keep It warm, is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prophecy: To George Keats In America John Keats	Its cradle still are in the lake -- Though the linen that will be Its swathe, is on the cotton tree -- Though the woollen that will keep It warm, is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Social Call Ambrose Bierce	For admiration is like linen left Upon the line-got easiest by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A vision of cheerful serenity johnnybee	Of white and red checkered linen cloths Spread Across a picnic table as far as the eye can see baskets brimming with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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