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Renaissance Thomas Sturge Moore	And ran through life like squandered pelf:-- This that till now has been thy self Forget, O happy soul,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Self-Made Man Robert William Service	Had I bet, beered and blown my pelf, I would have been as poor as...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Hard Luck Andrew Barton Paterson	I filled his purse with pelf, And then he gave me half-a-quid To back one for...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad for Elderly Kids Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Was encouraged to struggle for pelf, And to strive very hard in his own little yard, But never to think for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fairy Tale. Thomas Hood	Till he had made his pelf, And then retired - if one may call it so, Of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A More Ancient Mariner. Bliss Carman (William)	Then battens his store of pelf galore Under the tautest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Parody Charles Lamb	Gardener gratuitous, careless of pelf, Leave her to water her Lily herself, Or to neglect it to death, if she chuse it; Remember,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Walgett Episode Andrew Barton Paterson	Then he smiled a smile as he pouched the pelf, "I'm glad that I'm quit of them, win or lose: You can fetch them in when it suits...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ad Olum Robert Louis Stevenson	And escaped at once from slavery and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An April Fool Of Long Ago. Jean Blewett	"Of pedigree, and place, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An honest Valentine Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	If, should times grow harder, We have lack of pelf, Little in the larder, Less upon the shelf; Will you, never tearful, Make your old gowns...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric Adam Lindsay Gordon	Greed and glory, power and pelf — These are won by clowns and kings; Wherefore weariest thou thyself With thy vain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At The Gate Of The Convent Alfred Austin	``I speak of love divorced from pelf, I speak of love unyoked and free, Of love that deadens sense of self, Of love that loveth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Barbara's Courtship. Horatio Alger Jr	"Far be thoughts of rank or pelf; Dear, I love thee for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Boy-Dreams Mabel Forrest	Till my ship was choked to the decks with pelf, And no one dare touch it except myself And my black flag waved to the tearing breeze, And I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Boy-Dreams M. Forrest	Till my ship was choked to the decks with pelf, And no one dare touch it except myself And my black flag waved to the tearing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Breathes There the Man... From the Lay of the Last Minstrel Sir Walter Scott	Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Captain Teach alias Black Beard William Topaz McGonagall	Whether his wife knew where he had buried his pelf, When he impiously replied that nobody knew but the devil and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Complete Trust Wallace LaBenne	<> <> <> … the value of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cragwell End R C Lehmann	Not vain or dull or mean or keen for pelf, But splendid - as he mostly saw...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Crispus Attucks John Boyle O'Reilly	from inhuman soil, from garbage of pomp and pelf; His heart beats not with the common beat, he has changed his life-stream's hue; He deems...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dyspeptic Clerk Robert William Service	Though scant am I of pelf, And hold the hope that it may yield A living for myself; For I have toiled ten thousand days...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epigram IV: Circumstance Percy Bysshe Shelley	The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf, The halter found; and used...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Exeunt E. Radomsky	He drank in the 'plause and gathered the pelf that he'd long embrace; his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Farewell To Brother Jonathan Anonymous Americas	of pelf, Self-righteous, self-glorious, yes, every inch self, Your loyalty now is all bluster and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)