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A Lost Chance James Brunton Stephens	Or opposed a pliant meekness to the driving storms of Fate: But—the merely “coming...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Parent's Love Rique Carr	A father's love feigning death pliant bullets shot from a toy gun A parent's love is an open lake rife with cod ready to be fished ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song Of Low Degree Michael Fairless	The wind that bends the pliant trees, The whisper of the summer breeze; The kiss of snow and rain; the star That shines...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To William Hogarth Charles Churchill	Had Interest, pliant Interest, been thy guide, And had not Prudence been debauch'd by Pride, In Flattery's stream...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To William Hogarth. Charles Churchill	Had Interest, pliant Interest, been thy guide, And had not Prudence been debauch'd by Pride, In Flattery's stream...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Answer From Norway To The Speeches In The Swedish House Of Nobles, 1860 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	But would Christie be so pliant, With his comrades self-reliant, If they still at Eidsvold stood, Sword-girt, building...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chaplinesque Harold Hart Crane	More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane; Our obsequies are, in a way, no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cito Pede Preterit Aetas Adam Lindsay Gordon	Our bones were pliant and limber, Could we stand a merry cross-counter then, A slogging fall over timber...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Clay Within Your Hands Tami Conklin	your fingers knead me gently to a yielding, pliant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dancing In The Light Den Khaustov	Enveloping my pliant skin, its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Description Of A Conflagration Thomas Oldham	The numerous engines; others bear aloft The pliant tubes, guiding their watery store Amid the fiercer fire; on ladders some Ascending, scale...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dog And Fox. John Gay	And language, by your skill made pliant, Can save an undeserving...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto The Seventeenth George Gordon Lord Byron	To life's small rubs should surely be more pliant, And so for one will I, as well I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XIV. Declining an Invitation To Visit Foreign Countries William Shenstone	Or form these limbs with pliant ease to play; Trembling I view the Gaul's illusive art, That steals my loved rusticity...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Extent of Cookery William Shenstone	And soon a judge's rank rewards His pliant votes and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Flora Charlotte Smith	While round her form, the pliant tendrils twined, And clasp'd the scarf that floated on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From Pent-up Aching Rivers Walt Whitman	From side by side, the pliant coverlid off-throwing, From the one so unwilling to have me leave--and me just as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hiawatha's Friends Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Brave as man is, soft as woman, Pliant as a wand of willow, Stately as a deer with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hiawatha's Sailing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Of your strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Must Have Wanton Poets Christopher Marlowe	May draw the pliant king which way I please: Music and poetry is his delight; Therefore I'll have Italian masks...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jeans (corrected) Angela Buss	We learn to flex and move freely like a pliant old pair of worn...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Le Grand Cercueil Maurice Rollinat	»...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Les cathédrales Emile Verhaeren	Qui font craquer leur stalle en pliant les...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Khalil Gibran	He kneads you until you are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Chapter II Khalil Gibran	He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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