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Adele and Gilbert D. S. Fly	“A crosshatch quilt of scaly hide Defaced her furrowed brow, And desiccated flakes of flesh Trespassed her wilted...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
OUT OF THE DARKNESS Phil Roberts	Leathery flippers, scaly wings Squid-like beaks that gnash and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The River Turns to Beer Brian George Craft	The scaly ones I am sure have nothing else to fear, Except the time of disaster " When the river turns...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Dream Of Sunshine Eugene Field	And _not_ the scaly game that flies in darkness of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune Thomas Campion	Down the high mountains sliding: To whom the scaly nation yields Homage for the crystal fields Wherein they dwell: And every sea-dog pays a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lady With A Falcon On Her Fist. To The Honourable My Cousin A[nne] L[ovelace] Richard Lovelace	Unarm'd of wings and scaly oare, Unhappy crawler on the land, To what heav'n...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Parody. George Pope Morris	Oh, 'twas a scaly thing to haul This tom-cod from his native spray, And thus to frighten, one and all, The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference William Cowper	What though in scaly armour dress'd, Indifference may repel The shafts of woe, in such a breast No joy can ever...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Affianced to Agony Kenny Pariseau	awaiting the return to hell, she comes back scaly and bitter, mind is lost and spirit is frost, I can save this arc angel, I'll be her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aholibah Algernon Charles Swinburne	Large eyes whereon the brows had hold, And scaly things their slime kept...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alphabet Poem Edward Lear	Q was once a little quail, Quaily, Scaly, Whaly, Quaily,< br>Paly quaily, Little...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Annus Mirabilis, The Year Of Wonders, 1666 John Dryden	His awful summons they so soon obey; So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Around, around, around, around (Fish in a glass bowl) Mick Reid	scruffy and really scaly Around, around, around, around just like upon a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
BOISTEROUSLY Norbert Tasev	now the darkness is uncertain enough: in thin, scaly membranes, armour-hard, the frost chases on the smooth asphalt...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chinese Paper Knife Edmund Blunden	Fantastic branches warp around From the scaly uptwisting...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Circadian 1 Chapter 1 Vlad Pourer	Of bug in a shape of a scaly corkscrew, The lady in charge, also known as the shrew, She made her appearance, right...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Common Cold Ogden Nash	By fever's hot and scaly grip; By those two red redundant eyes That weep like woeful April skies; By racking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Comus (excerpts) John Milton	- And the Carpathian wizard's hook; - By scaly Triton's winding shell, - And old soothsaying Glaucus' spell;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Courtier And Proteus. John Gay	And Proteus rolled a scaly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cousin Rufus' Story James Whitcomb Riley	And scaly pain were blindly nosing it Down in the dreggy darkness of his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Crocodile Teeth and Tears Nola Debera Leech	You didn’t do anything While his scaly skin was pressed against yours Touch, bite against skin Brass knuckles, Breaking flesh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Daydreaming Nightmares Kenny Pariseau	is daily, the loss of reality has my skin...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
DEATH BRINGERS Phil Roberts	With lethal beaks and scaly wings And deadly talons instead of claws, They run down any living being Looking like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dewi the dragon Alan Parry-Booth	Dragons have a scaly coat They’re not able to perspire So if they get overheated They set themselves on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dinosaurs Muzz	up quickly by a scaly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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