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A reporter's sorrow Rajendra Bhandari	Nobody kidnapped any one for...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
DECK ORATOR Hubbs	Some for...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Rue Begets Rue Seah Ray	'best one can' since given 'best' his Son--as 'ransom' paid. Understanding and merciful towards 'imperfect', but repentant man like Daniel, whose...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Pain I Own Kurt Philip Behm	My chest of gold A ransom of torment No trinkets sold My treasure...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
(Brokedown) Image of a man (2) Etak Nosliw	Love and trust held at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
1930 TO 1939 Debbie Middaugh AKA TURBO1904	I am Lindbergh's son kidnapped, No...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A few days in the life of a ww1 guardsman Alan Parry-Booth	Where the ruddy boche had held our mob to ransom The gunners who had fired Were very much expired Believe you me they didn’t look too...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Florentine Tragedy - A Fragment Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde	Be as a prince's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Holy Living Calling Richard Newton Sherrer	While you honor and revere, Ransom ways were...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Life Kendle Firth	The ransom of fandom is exceedingly handsome used...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet II Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	How shall I ransom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXIX Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	What penance shall he do, what ransom pay, Of blood poured out for faith in a far land, What mute knee--service, weeping here...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A reporter's sorrow Rajendra Bhandari	Nobody kidnapped any one for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Suplication For The Joys Of Heaven Anne Kingsmill Finch	To the first born and ransom'd Church above To Seraphims whose whole composures love To active Cherubins whom wings...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Very Mournful Ballad On The Siege And Conquest Of Alhama George Gordon Lord Byron	Doubloons a hundred I would pay, And think her ransom cheap that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Agincourt Michael Drayton	King Henry to deride, His ransom to provide Unto him sending; Which he neglects the while As from a nation vile, Yet with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alaric In Italy Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Did no Camillus from the chain Ransom thy Capitol...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegy on the Lady Markham Francis Beaumont	Enough to have ransom'd many a thousand soul Captive to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
beagle Charles Bukowski	we'll not ransom our fate or his for doorknobs or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beast and Man in India Rudyard Kipling	I am the meat of sacrifice, The ransom of man's guilt, For they give my life to the altar-knife Wherever shrine is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Better And Best William Arthur Dunkerley	That my dear Lord, with His own life, my ransom bought, And I am...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Between The Gates John Greenleaf Whittier	No man his brother can redeem Or a soul's ransom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Black Day Muhammad Khalid Khan	Rape ransom and innocent killings are the part of agenda Freedom fighters pay the price in the shape of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Black Sampson Of Brandywine Paul Laurence Dunbar	If he was only a chattel, Honor the ransom may pay Of the royal, the loyal black giant Who fought for his country that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Boston Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson	Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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