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The Old Cumberland Beggar William Wordsworth	Bow-bent, his eyes for ever on the ground, He plies his weary journey; seeing still, And seldom knowing that he sees, some straw, Some...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Spider holds a Silver Ball Emily Dickinson	His Yarn of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad Of The Boston Tea-Party Oliver Wendell Holmes	Ah, little dreams the quiet dame Who plies with' rock and spindle The patient flax, how great a flame Yon little spark shall...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of My Departed Parents, Who Were Sober Living & God Fearing People William Topaz McGonagall	He plies himself with a glass of Whisky, Rum, or Brandy, To give himself courage to rob and kill,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada William Strode	With rolling hand the Lutinist then plies His trembling threads; sometimes in scornful wise He brushes down the strings and keemes them...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Virtuous Woman. Thomas Frederick Young	And far into the shades of night, Her spindle plies with busy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alsace-Lorraine George Meredith	oises, heard if but named, so hot is the trade he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Among The Timothy Archibald Lampman	The dry cicada plies his wiry bow In long-spun cadence, thin and dusty sere: From the green grass the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Enigma William Cowper	A second draws it into wire, The shears another plies; Who clips in length the brazen thread From him who, chafing every shred, Gives all an equal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Astrophel and Stella: XXIII Sir Philip Sidney	Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies; Others, because the prince my service tries, Think that I think state errors to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bouche-Mignonne Isabella Valancy Crawford	' Bouche-Mignonne her distaff plies Where the willows shiver; Round the mossy mill-wheel flies; Dragon-flies,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Conveyor belts Hubbs	Common excuse as app plies docility through mediacation Released...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy Written At Hotwells, Bristol William Lisle Bowles	Between the riven cliffs slow plies her way, And peering on the sight the white sails...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Emily Hugh Mitchell	Imagination builds the ship that plies untainted realms, And wisdom sheds its worldly cloak when a pure heart...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes Paul Laurence Dunbar	To work some potent spell, her magic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
February’s Backyard Urban Red Fox Scott Michael Potter	belly icy slides Crying plies past to present reddish lady lays on sides Gliding gazes maybe trusts musts, swollen teats...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
fragments Robert Louis Stevenson	Or rather to behold her when She plies for me the unresting pen, And when the loud assault of squalls Resounds upon the roof and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Get Work Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	shoves the shovel still his thankless calling plies, And his name is Michael Burke or Peter...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hans Carvel Matthew Prior	Not in the shape in which he plies At miss's elbow when she lies, Or stands before the nursery doors To take the naughty boy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Heroism William Cowper	(Such is his thirst of opulence and ease), Plies all the sinews of industrious toil, Gleans up the refuse of the general spoil, Rebuilds the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Defence of the Bush Andrew Barton Paterson	Wher the sempstress plies her needle till her eyes are sore and red In a filthy, dirty attic toiling on for daily...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia Alexander Pope	A stately, worthless animal, That plies the tongue, and wags the tail, All flutter, pride, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Memoriam C. G. Gordon Mary Hannay Foott	To save the lives of shipwrecked men A maiden plies the oar; Seamen and landsmen honour thee, Grace Darling,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 2 Christopher Smart	rejoice with Nautilus who spreads his sail and plies his oar, and the Lord is his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Leipzig Thomas Hardy	"To the march that yon street-fiddler plies; She told me 'twas the same She'd heard from the trumpets, when the Allies ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)