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A Bad Night Ambrose Bierce	Here at this grave, Which for my purposes thou, Jack of Spades- _(To Grimghast_) Corrupter than the thing that reeks below- Hast...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
AUTUMN Ken Bartlett	Nature recycles them for purposes man...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The seduction of Emma Valdoramay Moss M.Jacques	2021copyrighted material provided for educational purposes...	Rate it (4.00 / 2 votes)
Inked life of a Poet Wordskillz Neo	Some give up their purposes Defeating the ends of their destinies Family feuds feed anger of hungry demons Demons...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
California advantage Disadvantage	And, i havent seen , purposes to keep my child...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
(all natural) Joe Kelly	Completed many purposes and still moving...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Performance Of Henry V At Stratford-Upon-Avon Elizabeth Jennings	For big or little deaths, increase, grow up To purposes and means to face events Of cruelty,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Reasonable Protestation J. C. Squire	God's everlasting purposes, And never save in perplext dream Have caught the least clear-shapen gleam Of the great...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Swain To His Sweetheart. Thomas Frederick Young	Comes life, where lately life had gone; New purposes my bosom fires, To battle hard and bravely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Walk In The Park Robert Zwilling	Working at cross purposes, life is far less than the sum of its parts, a failure to launch If individuals want...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Welcome Ambrose Bierce	To paltry purposes traditions...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wren's Nest William Wordsworth	And thus, for purposes benign, A simple flower...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Absence. Fanny Kemble	Leave, and forget, life's purposes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Meaning Is Within Tracy Bollinger	What purposes, or what intentions, Or random impulses...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All was quiet, like the lull before a storm Royston	God's purposes for this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To Dr. Moore, Author Of A View Of Society And Manners In France, Switzerland, And Germany. Helen Maria Williams	But fancy words are only made To serve the purposes of trade, And when they neither buy, nor sell, Think silence answers quite as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To William Hogarth Charles Churchill	To make Vice sit, for purposes of strife, And draw the hag much larger than the life, To make the good seem bad, the bad...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle To William Hogarth. Charles Churchill	To make Vice sit, for purposes of strife, And draw the hag much larger than the life, To make the good seem bad, the bad...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
And Still We Wonder Why (TW for mention of su!c!de) Gracie Miller	And for our own selfish And greedy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Any culture; she fits herself perfect; what a brain Amir Samji	Purposes we leave behind indulge in recreation when I think, I go beyond philosophical...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Assault Weapons Brother Jacob	A baseball bat can be used for other purposes, besides hitting a home...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Between my Death and Rebirth Mabatho Makhaotse	Reminding me of the purposes to keep fighting alive She said "one day you will hear the morning birds sing your name,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Built By Immigrants Lawrence S. Pertillar	And placed on their backs, For humiliation...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Charity William Cowper	Of Heaven’s mysterious purposes and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Code. Heather Lydia Thornhill	Propeganda to catch their gaze for conversational purposes and to make them take...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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