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Mandalay Rudyard Kipling	'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green, An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat -- jes' the same...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
'Look at The Clock!' : Patty Morgan The Milkmaid's Story Richard Harris Barham	Her gown was a flower'd one, her petticoat green, Her buckles were bright as her milking cans, And her hat was a beaver, and made like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue Jonathan Swift	This petticoat shall save thy dear backside; Nor need I blush; although you feel it wet, Dermot, I vow,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Summer Affair Ivan Lyon	With Pretty Pink Petticoat A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Achill Girl's Song Padraic Colum	But leave me here instead, The petticoat in dye-pot here Will never fast its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Another Visit to Bob Johnson’s Department Store Sandra Nelms-Ludwig	ed, and pressed church dress covered a candy cane...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anticipation Strangles Desire Ian Sawicki	Delicate sweeps of apathy brush swirls; petticoat finery on the body of sensuality - such a fine cloud, gasps in quiet air are wrapped in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Butchered to make a dutchman'S holiday Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant	And toast: 'The trim-set petticoat We leave behind in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Charms William Henry Davies	To hear her moving petticoat For me is music's highest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Declaration Of War Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Was needful I found, My bodice is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Delight in disorder Robert Herrick	In the tempestuous petticoat; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility;-- Do more bewitch me, than when...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Descriptive Jottings of London William Topaz McGonagall	Then there's Petticoat Lane I venture to say, It's a wonderful place on the Sabbath day; There wearing apparel can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] George Gordon Byron	been Female or male? a schoolboy or a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter I Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	As any nun, she raised her petticoat One little inch more high than reason meet Was for one crossing a well--besomed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - part 07 Torquato Tasso	Stripped to her petticoat the virgin sweet So slender was, that wonder was to see; Her handmaid ready at her mistress'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
King Volmer and Elsie John Greenleaf Whittier	Below, the modest petticoat can only half conceal The motion of the lightest foot that ever turned a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Le Grenier William Makepeace Thackeray	Now by the bed her petticoat glides down, And when did woman look the worse in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Look At The Clock!: Patty Morgan The Milkmaid's Story Richard Harris Barham	Her gown was a flower'd one, her petticoat green, Her buckles were bright as her milking cans, And her hat was a beaver, and made like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom William Ernest Henley	Clutching at her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Man's Injustice Towards Providence Anne Kingsmill Finch	The finest Petticoat must take the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mary Lemaine Henry Lawson	No petticoat job—there was no time to waste, The suit she was mending she slipped on in haste, And five...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mollie. Richard Hunter	Her petticoat's of lace; Mollie's hair is golden, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Montreal Maree Robert William Service	beneez my petticoat," said Montreal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ninny Nanny Netticoat Beatrix Potter	In a white petticoat, With a red nose, -- The longer she...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ninny nanny netticoat Helen Beatrix Potter	In a white petticoat, With a red nose,-- The longer she stands,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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