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A descent remembered Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi	When you were caught for a serious offence You professed the name of a deity To re-arm yourself and besiege our...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Deeper than the fire Evans Udozie Enyiorji	I chose not to commit an offence I chose to crawl I chose to stand tall I chose to rise up I chose not to give up I chose...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Lynch mob complete version K.V Srikanth	The Lynch brothers Started the practice Alleged offence Without trial Rope around neck Before eventual...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Mending Wall Robert Frost	And to whom I was like to give...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Old Cumberland Beggar William Wordsworth	So low as to be scorned without a sin; Without offence to God cast out of view; Like the dry remnant of a garden-flower Whose seeds are shed, or as...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Never in my Name GERRY COLGAN	And we don’t really mean offence, at least not the way it...	Rate it (4.50 / 4 votes)
Sweeney Henry Lawson	He apologised for speaking; there was no offence, he swore; But he somehow seemed to fancy that he'd seen my face...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
Covid, not just a virus ANSITA RAY	MEETING PEOPLE WAS AN...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
45 Clarke Hicombe	Then theres that southern sham, No offence, I love green eggs and ham, And what about mister weathervane, Changing his tune as if its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Ballad Charles Lamb	Wretched Age, in poverty, must brook...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem Jean de La Fontaine	A letter 's often lost, or gives offence, And many serious accidents arrive: To have a confidant 'twere better strive; But where could...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem La Fontaine	A letter 's often lost, or gives offence, And many serious accidents arrive: To have a confidant 'twere better strive; But where could...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue Betwixt Cordanus And Amoret, On A Lost Heart Richard Lovelace	I pity its sad fate, since its offence Was but for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fair Melody: To Be Sung By Good Christians Hans Sachs	Thy Christian freedom as Paul saith, Yet from offence refrain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Guide for Poits Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	An, square an' all, to show there's no offence, To show that in me 'eart true friendship lies, I gives free gratis, an wivout ixpense, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lady Forsaken Complayneth Sir Edward Dyer	Which I can judge no just offence, nor cause that I deserved disdayne, Except he mean through false pretense, through forgèd love...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Legacy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	And fear from them no treacherous offence While the mind's watchful eye thy road commands: With lively pleasure contemplate the scene...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter To Sir George Etherege. John Dryden	Nor need this title give offence, For here you were your Excellence, For gaming, writing, speaking, keeping, His Excellence for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North Jonathan Swift	There's none so ignorant or weak To take offence at what you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue - I Anne Killigrew	Wary, without the least Offence, to live, Yet none than thee more ready to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Preaching From A Spanish Ballad George Meredith	XXII...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Retir'd Friendship Katherine Philips	No horrour can be our offence; For misheif's self can doe no harme To friendship and to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A song written by the earl of surrey Henry Howard	Where many one shall rue, that never made offence : Thus your refuse against my power shall boot them no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Storm in the Mountains Charles Harpur	(On which, in the grim past, some Cain’s offence Hath haply outraged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 2. William Cowper	For infinite has been thy vast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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