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Your Birthday Night Ludy Bührs	a room that reeked of disease, my laptop on my lap, working for my bread, because one has to do...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
The Drunken Preacher Joe Strickland	And the air reeked of alcohol fumes, I sat, nursing my drink, lost in my thoughts, When a loud mouthed...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Meditation Herman Melville	Of North or South they reeked not then, Warm passion cursed the cause of war: Can Africa pay back this blood Spilt on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dirge Charles Stuart Calverley	We heard last New Year's Day, - (They reeked not of Hereafter, Or what the Doctor'd say,) - For those small forms that fluttered...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Disillusioned - By an Ex-Enthusiast William Schwenck Gilbert	Existing in an atmosphere That reeked of gin and pipes and beer - Conceited, fractious,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Faustine Algernon Charles Swinburne	All round the foul fat furrows reeked, Where blood sank in; The circus splashed and seethed and shrieked All round...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Heccar and Gaira Thomas Chatterton	Their bloody jav'lins reeked one living steam, Their bows were broken at the roaring stream; Heccar the Chief of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Marmion: Introduction to Canto VI. Sir Walter Scott	There the huge sirloin reeked; hard by Plum-porridge stood, and Christmas pie; Nor failed old Scotland to produce, At such...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Apologies Lorenzo Chidiac	Every time I dragged your name In dirt until it reeked of shame I am the one feeling shame now And I vow Until my dying breath I will try to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Say my name Shermaine	Your dried up lips reeked of thirst But you poured the tea in my cup first Gazing softly, your gesture never...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tannhauser Emma Lazarus	For his sagacious horse that reeked of sweat, Trembling in every limb, confirmed his thought, That nothing human scaled that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cageing Of Ares George Meredith	Though these two billowy urchins reeked of craft, It signalled some adventurous master-trick To set Olympians buzzing in debate, Lest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Colossus Rohan Sehgal	soil reeked of a madness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Creed To Be Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Too long man reeked with lawless thought, And leaned upon a tortured...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The General Public Stephen Vincent Benet	The buildings reeked with vapor, black and harsh Against the deepening darkness of the sky; And each lamp was a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Girl at the Table William Renshaw	That reeked the embers in your beautiful hair, Your eyes still and will always reflect that fiery hope, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Scapegoat Andrew Barton Paterson	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Splendour And The Curse Of Song George Essex Evans	What reeked they where they slumbered calm and strong Crowned with the splendour of Immortal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Uncles in '55, reminiscence in prose Charles Prévost Linton	Their hands reeked of tobacco and news-printer's ink And jangled loose change in their pockets as they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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