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The Hebrew's Appeal Grace Aguilar	Vain, vain, the mother's piteous shriek of woe, Her dying infants clinging to her breast; And age infirm, and youth, whose...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Idiot Boy William Wordsworth	Is sick, and makes a piteous moan As if her very life would...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
1866 -- Addressed To The Old Year Henry Timrod	And swept the piteous round of mortal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Career Paul Laurence Dunbar	To regions vast of boundless sky; Nor I, like piteous Daphne, be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream Christina Georgina Rossetti	Of far-off piteous bleat of lambs and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Last Confession Dante Gabriel Rossetti	So then this child Was piteous to me; for all told me then Her parents must have left her to God's chance, To man's or to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Legend Abram Joseph Ryan	"Poor little bird," in such a piteous tone; He took the bird and laid it in His hand, And breathed on it -- when to his amaze The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Shepherd's Dream Nicholas Breton	And in the slumber as he lay, He gave a piteous groan; He thought his sheep were run away, And he was left...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tryst Celia Thaxter	As if in piteous plea; The ardent sun sent slow tears down its face Soft flowing to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adoption Robert William Service	Whose tiny hands in piteous plight Seemed to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
After This The Judgement Christina Georgina Rossetti	And feel no pity for its piteous moan; But thou, O Love of God, remember yet, Through the dry desert, through the waterflood...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alchimie de la douleur (The Alchemy of Sorrow) Charles Baudelaire	makest me a Midas — peer of that most piteous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alice Fell, Or Poverty William Wordsworth	'Whence comes,' said I, 'this piteous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Fools' Day Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	This yearly task of harking back; For what a piteous fool I see Comes tumbling up that thorny...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Extempore John Keats	The Dwarf with piteous face began to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Imitation of Spenser William Blake	Or have thy soft piteous eyes beheld The weary wanderer thro' the desert...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode - Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers Matthew Prior	May some kind friend the piteous object see, And equal rites perform to that which once was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode To Himself Ben Jonson	They die with their conceits, And only piteous scorn upon their folly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ariosto. Orlando Furioso, Canto X, 91-99 Alan Seeger	And, drowned in tears and making piteous moan, Left for that ravening beast, chained on the rocks...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aspetto Reale Maurice Henry Hewlett	" Piteous I held my indeterminate breath And sought thee out, and saw how he had painted Thine eyes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Astrophel Edmund Spenser	And with your piteous layes haue learnd to breed Compassion in a countrey lasses...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At The Feast Edith Nesbit	Can music drown the little piteous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At The Foot Of The Cross. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	With Thy mild gentle piteous face, provide Promise of help and mercies multiplied, And hope that yet my soul secure may...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At The Gate Edith Nesbit	Of piteous wanderers, sinful folk and sad, And still the brothers ministered, but long The day seemed,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire) Algernon Charles Swinburne	The barren kiss of piteous wave to wave That knows not where is that Leucadian grave Which hides too deep the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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