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An Ode : On Exodus iii. 14 Matthew Prior	thy knowing pride, Mortify thy learned lust: Vain are thy thoughts while thou thyself art...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Do not say “My Ailment”. Do not possess it. Doug Blair	to death. Paul tells us in Colossians 3 to "mortify" the things in us which tend toward sin and handicap. We are to undergo a change of raiment: ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ed Eugene Field	I mortify the flesh 'nd smoke for the sake uv my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How long with your lies Kadot36	And you celebrate as you slowly mortify...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Musketaquid Ralph Waldo Emerson	The polite found me impolite; the great Would mortify me, but in vain: I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Interlude V. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Writ by the monks of long-ago, Who loved to mortify the flesh, So that the soul might purer grow, And rise to a diviner state; And one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Disagreeable Man William Schwenck Gilbert	And vanity I always do my best to mortify; A charitable action I can skilfully dissect; And interested motives I'm delighted to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable William Cowper	Shall hear of this thy deed: My dog shall mortify the pride Of man’s superior breed: But chief myself I will enjoin, Awake at duty’s call, To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Gascon Punished La Fontaine	To mortify still more the silly swain, And fill his soul with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Gulf of All Human Possessions Jonathan Swift	How soon all human pleasures pass; How will it mortify thy pride, To turn the true impartial...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Revolution At Market-Hill Jonathan Swift	That her own maid should over-top her, To mortify the creature more, We'll take her heels five inches...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Lady Who Commanded Me To Send Her An Account In Verse Mary Barber	I want not to be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys Henry King	The mortify'd may hear the wise King preach, When his repentance made him fit to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems Jonathan Swift	Resolved to mortify your pride, I'll here expose your weaker...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon The Bee John Bunyan	Do thou it, in the first place,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon The Vine Tree John Bunyan	Good are they, if they mortify their sin, But without that, they are not worth a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. Jonathan Swift	If they have mortify'd my pride, And made me throw my pen aside; If with such talents Heav'n has blest 'em, Have I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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