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ABIKU Dr. Idowu James ADEKUNLE	Under the bamboo trees With a leaf of plantain Tied to your waist In the market of your spirit...	Rate it (3.29 / 35 votes)
Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo William Lisle Bowles	Fresh breezes stir the waving plantain grove; The fisher carols in the winding cove; And light canoes along the lucid tide With...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Attempt to Glue Ludy Bührs	out of a plantain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Evarra And His Gods Rudyard Kipling	Abhorrent, shapeless, crowned with plantain tufts, And when the cattle lowed at twilight-time, He dreamed it was the clamour of lost...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
God’s Acre Conrad Potter Aiken	She prods a plantain Of too ambitious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion Wallace Stevens	Here is the plantain by your door And the best cock of red feather That crew before the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Les Doukhobors Guillaume Apollinaire	PARMI le tan et le plantain Et les ruines légendaires Chaque richard stavelotain Ingurgitant diverses...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lilith. The Legend Of The First Woman. Book I. Ada Langworthy Collier	When we together plucked the plantain leaves; Yon leopard lowly stretched at my command Its lazy length beneath my soothing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Morning at Sea in the Tropics George Gordon McCrae	Peeped forth ’tween plantain-patches at the sky, Or smiled through groves of cocos on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet To Love Helen Maria Williams	That paint the broad-leav'd plantain's glossy bower: Calm was my bosom as this silent hour, When o'er the deep, scarce heard,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Battle of the Summer Islands : Canto 1 Edmund Waller	With candied plantains, and the juicy pine, On choicer melons, and sweet grapes, they dine, And with potatoes fat...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer	Were full of plantain or of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Indian City Felicia Dorothea Hemans	And the plantain glitter'd with leaves of gold, As a tree midst the genii-gardens old, And the cypress lifted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Morai Helen Maria Williams	Led in mystic mazes, twine Garlands, where the plantain weaves With the palm's luxuriant leaves, And o'er each sacred knot is spread The plant devoted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Negro Girl Mary Darby Robinson	"He sent thee far away;-- "And prison'd in the plantain grove-- "Poor ZELMA pass'd the day-- "But ere the moon rose high above the main, "ZELMA, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Peasant Of The Alps Charlotte Smith	More dear to him his hut with plantain thatch'd, Where long his unambitious heart attach'd, Finds all he wishes, all he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Red Ridges LXIV Tochukwu Esq	We are going to give you yam and beans and plantain We are going to uproot our cassava farms for you We are going to farm rice and corn and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Tropics Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen	Of plantain-frond and paddy-field, nor dread The fierceness of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Undertaker's Horse.. Rudyard Kipling	Down the plantain-bordered highway, (Heaven send it ne'er be my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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