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A Quiet House Tooba Butt	Startling it is, the pretence of grandeur Every pupil looks a radiant azure The world so envious of this...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
BLINDLY SEE Hubbs	I adhered to the pretence of enjoying what was tearing me apart Yet all those tears I had shed… not one came from a...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Hello Man, Be Yourself Israel Chinonye Uche	it's no good pretending; in pretence you create a false impression of yourself thereby wallowing in self-deception and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My Last Duchess Robert Browning	Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My Trust John Greenleaf Whittier	I suffer with no vain pretence Of triumph over flesh and sense, Yet trust the grievous...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Wrong Carrie Zis	I’m Missing the pretence I thought you were Finding out the hard way it was just your lure I know you don’t even...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Your Rebellious Royal Highness Varnika Veronica	to be a snarky rebel than keep up with this...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Change Boris Pasternak	Was tangible without pretence And full of substance, weighty,...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
Self-made Femi White	Living in truth, and avoiding...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
79 Joachim du Bellay	I cannot write of friendship but only...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Ballad Charles Lamb	That none to do them injury may have pretence; Wretched Age, in poverty, must brook...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Contemplation Anne Kingsmill Finch	Hypocrisy and feign'd pretence To cover foul Dissigns Shall blusshing fly as far from thence As to the deepest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fragment Of A Poem. Alexander Pope	Though still he travels on no bad pretence, To shew...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Mediocre Man Robert William Service	Of no high-brow pretence; A comfortable life I plan With care...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North Jonathan Swift	Affected by each vulgar dame, To modesty a weak pretence; And soon grow pert on men of sense; To show my face with scornful air; Let others match it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue - II Anne Killigrew	Their Roving Humour wants but a pretence With Oaths and what's most Sacred to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Portrait Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Viewing those lips, thou still may’st make pretence To judge of what she says, and swear ’tis sense: Clothed with such grace, with such...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prologue John Dryden	He'll have, at least, a fair pretence to rail; To call you base, and swear you used him ill, And put you in the new Deserters'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Psalm Of Councel Joseph Furphy	An Asiatic boundary fence Is little better than pretence Unless you're white in every sense — Unless, in fact, you're Up To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satire, in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal John Oldham	71 'Besides, who has pretence to favour now, 72But he, who hidden villainy does know, 73Whose breast does with some...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satire. A Humble Imitation. Margaret Dixon McDougall	Some who to decency make no pretence; But, skilled in arts which better men deceive, They spread the slander which they don't...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satyre Against Mankind John Wilmot	And Wit, was his vain frivolous pretence, Of pleasing others, at his own...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Satyre Against Mankind Lord John Wilmot	And Wit was his vain, frivolous pretence Of pleasing others, at his own...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Absence. Fanny Kemble	Into past days, and with some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aged alliances Sam madeyin	Make a shower and not by pretence your religious passionate desire You'd danced me to the block, if am yours tonight ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)