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An Enchantress Roberto Suárez Torres	black sackcloth that in a sound grot...	Rate it (4.50 / 2 votes)
"I didn't know" Tamar Ingleton	I didn’t know it was a sackcloth my soul had to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Ballad Of Boding. Christina Georgina Rossetti	The next like glittering wire, But sackcloth were the sails of the least; And all the crews made music, and two had spread a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Bush Girl Henry Lawson	Her threadbare dress of sackcloth seems— But, like her mother, years agone, She has her dreams; she has her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Protean Glimpse. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop	He brings the world in sackcloth to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Reward Henry Kendall	About his breast is tied a sackcloth grey, And knots of thorns deface his lordly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Street Corner Robert Fuller Murray	Never take rooms in a corner house; Or sackcloth and ashes and sad self-scorning Shall be for a portion unto...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Achan Henry Kendall	And think of a shadow in sackcloth and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Andromeda Charles Kingsley	Fasting in sackcloth and ashes they came, both the king and his people, Came to the mountain of oaks, to the house...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arisen At Last John Greenleaf Whittier	I wore, undreaming of relief, The sackcloth of thy shame and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Austerity Of Poetry Matthew Arnold	A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bats In Sunshine Ambrose Bierce	That were a wasteful deed Which you'd repent in sackcloth extra rough; For books cost money, and I'm told you care To lay up treasures Here as well as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bible Defense Of Slavery Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	Take sackcloth of the darkest dye, And shroud the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
By The Waters Of Babylon Christina Georgina Rossetti	Vainly we gird on sackcloth, vainly kneel With famished faces toward Jerusalem: His heart is shut against us not to feel,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cassandra Southwick John Greenleaf Whittier	And mate with maniac women, loose-haired and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chicago John Greenleaf Whittier	thee throw The ashen sackcloth of thy woe; And build, as to Amphion's strain, To songs of cheer thy walls...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Crackhead Margaret Tracey Lovings	sackcloth; And branding instead of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Easter Communion Gerard Manley Hopkins	With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elevenses with Ghosts John Beevers	Why I wear my poppy Like sackcloth and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eudoxia. Second Picture Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	Uplifts her from sackcloth and ashes and black mourning weeds, Re-crowns and re-clothes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
even the bus groans John Jessup Kennan	of breath mourns in sackcloth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
God's Anger Was Turned Away (Bussokusekika) Edwin Tanguma	Not a single soul Has donned sackcloth and ashes None is repentant Even mighty Nineveh Was repentant of their sins God's anger...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Grief's Harmonics Francis Thompson	My soul like sackcloth did her body rend, And thus with Heaven contend:- 'Let pass the chalice of this coming dread,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Heliodorus In The Temple Felicia Dorothea Hemans	With the rude sackcloth girt their beauty's pride, And thronged the streets in hurrying, wild dismay; While knelt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 86 Isaac Watts	Th' obedient sun forbears; His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies, And seals up all the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)