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Those Evil Few John W. May	They seem so modest, but I warn, Their modesty is but a...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
No means No!!!! Bella Hobobo	Their modesty honored, their dignity intact, Yet violated, their spirit under...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Praising the LORD Richard Newton Sherrer	Righteousness endures forever; Honorable with modesty, To a love that will not...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Happy birthday to all," Surprise God restore the Prize for you All" Astghick Moradkhanians	February: Amethyst for sincerity and violet for modesty for April: Diamond for innocence, and sweet pea for love for may: Emerald forhappiness Lily of...	Rate it (3.50 / 2 votes)
The Causes of Anger and Its Medicine Al-Ghazali Abu Hamid	Self-praise is to be removed by...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Castaway Augusta Davies Webster	word will fit the sense but...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication Robert Burns	Set up a face how I stop short, For fear your modesty be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication To Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Robert Burns	Set up a face, how I stop short, For fear your modesty be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue At Fiesole Alfred Austin	But modesty in poets is too rare, To be reproved for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Funeral Elogy Anne Bradstreet	Truth would be thought to forfeit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hymn Of Heat Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	And, with mer-maiden modesty, Frisk in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North Jonathan Swift	Affected by each vulgar dame, To modesty a weak pretence; And soon grow pert on men of sense; To show my face with scornful air; Let...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ballad III: Solicitude William Shenstone	With her wit she engages the free; With her modesty pleases the grave; She is ev'ry way pleasing to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Portrait Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Inshrined Modesty—supply the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A True Story. George W Doneghy	I only quote that you may comprehend How modesty in me has missed its end, And why it is I ever undertook to write The story that I'm going...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Word To Two Young Ladies. Robert Bloomfield	The charm of female modesty: And let sweet Music give it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alexandreis Anne Killigrew	Cancell'd the bashful Laws and nicer Bar Of Modesty, which did her Sex restrain) First boldly did advance before her Train, And thus she...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alexis And Dora Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Oft have I seen thee go, with modesty clad, to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amyntor's Grove, His Chloris, Arigo, And Gratiana. An Elogie Richard Lovelace	The boy adorn'd with modesty, Yet armed so with majesty, That if the Thunderer againe His eagle sends, she stoops in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland Francis Beaumont	That e'er with modesty was called a span, Since the Almighty left to strive with man; Mankind is sent to sorrow; and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An English Girl William Schwenck Gilbert	r, For prudery knows no haven there; To find mock-modesty, please apply To the conscious blush and the downcast eye. Rich in the things contentment brings,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To William Hogarth. Charles Churchill	Had I made Modesty in blushes speak, And drawn the tear down Beauty's sacred cheek; Had I (damn'd then) in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Essay on Man: Epistle II Alexander Pope	Trace science then, with modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode Frederick George Scott	20 Sweet modesty to wear; To keep thine honour sure, Thy bosom pure— That is it to be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Apple-Pie and Cheese Eugene Field	And heresies called fashions Have modesty effaced, And baleful, morbid passions Corrupt our native...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)