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A Conjuration To Electra Robert Herrick	By all those sweets that be I' the flowery nunnery; By silent nights, and the Three forms of Hecate; By all aspects that bless The sober...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A conjuration: to electra Robert Herrick	By all those sweets that be I'th' flowery nunnery; By silent nights, and the Three forms of Hecate; By all aspects that bless The sober...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife Who died and were buried together Richard Crashaw	That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arabian Night's Entertainments William Ernest Henley	No Brook But had his nunnery Of green-haired, silvry-curving sprites, To cabin in his grots, and pace His lilied...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arabian Nights' Entertainments - To Elizabeth Robins Pennell William Ernest Henley	No Brook But had his nunnery Of green-haired, silvry-curving sprites, To cabin in his grots, and pace His lilied...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chanson de pirates (Pirates' Song) Victor Marie Hugo	A nunnery was spied ashore, We lowered away the cutter, And, landing, seized the youngest nun Ere she a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy II: The Anagram John Donne	A Nunnery durst receive, and think a maid; And though in childbed's labour she did lie, Midwives would...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode On A Lycian Tomb Silas Weir Mitchell	WHAT gracious nunnery of grief is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Romance Of A Youngest Daughter John Crowe Ransom	“Henceforth the tightest nunnery be thy bed By the topmost...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
St. Mawgan Church and Lanhern Nunnery, Cornwall Letitia Elizabeth Landon	the old and lonely house now called the Lanhern...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio La Fontaine	WITHIN a nunnery, in days of yore, A good old man supplied the garden-store; The nuns, in general, were smart...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Immortals Dorothy Parker	Or sin, or seek a nunnery, or save My lips and give my cheek, would tread the floor And aptly mention poison and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Modern Major-General William Schwenck Gilbert	When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery, In short, when I've a smattering of elementary strategy, You'll say a better Major-GenerAL...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nun Of Kent Riba Akabusi	She joined the nunnery of Saint Sepulchre in Canterbury After miraculously curing Thomas Cobb of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Lucasta, Going To The Wars Richard Lovelace	That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Roses in the Bosom of Castara William Habington	In the chaste nunnery of her breasts-- For he'd profane so chaste...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax Andrew Marvell	A Nunnery first gave it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon roses Robert Herrick	As in a flowery nunnery; They blush'd, and look'd more fresh than flowers Quickened of late by pearly showers; And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Womanhood. Robert Crawford	Knowing the world no nunnery is For the heart stripped of its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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