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What If I Were a Shadowless Man? Karl Constantine FOLKES	me up to every...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
I'm Disrespectful Respectfully Robert T. Davenport	I dance on the line, between humor and scorn, Leaving others torn, feeling...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Search Me, O Lord” (A Prayer of Petition) Karl Constantine FOLKES	Though some as nonbelievers may scorn you, may, inquiring, find you quite odd, in psalms you declare them ignorantly foolish, ...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
"And Yet It Moves" Kurt Philip Behm	Burning the ladder Immune from the scorn Nuance to sleepwalk As reality dreams Proof in the eye Galileo ...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was Percy Bysshe Shelley	To bear scorn, fear, and hate, a woful...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
An Unwritten Tragedy Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Deaf to his fellows' scorn, and held it gain To lie a living corse unburied there Among the reeds of Time and hidden in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Australia's Peril (The Warning) Henry Lawson	of paltry swindlers who are fathoms beneath our scorn, Or the army of brave sons grown from the children who should have been...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Compassion Robert William Service	For my sleek self a savage scorn,-- Urge to atone; So when a starving cur I saw I bandaged up its bleeding...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Content, To My Dearest Lucasia Katherine Philips	In Mirth some place her, but she scorns Th'assistance of such crackling thorns, Nor owes her self to such thin sport, That is so...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Cotter's Saturday Night, The Robert Burns	With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end: My dearest meed a friend's esteem and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
False hoods Victoria Holcombe	You bear the weight of his relentless scorn, As he manipulates, your spirit...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Frightened Heather Lydia Thornhill	its restless being will scorn all...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
GLADIATOR Daniel Mayon	Then grasps reflections That embrace his...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Hypatia Lyric Estuary	You play your part dutifully Or scorn they will reveal Step out of line and feel the wrath as they started once with me Bite...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed Edna St. Vincent Millay	I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn wtih pity, -- let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Least Of Mosts Sprout	I’ll obscure your thoughts And scorn your...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Life's Scars (Poem No. 604) Ging Alburo D.	If you forget to pray, You will take the scorn Seriously; Either you fire back Or die of heart...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Lost senses O. Santos	So with no scorn and being born from rags to learn to re-purpose to rid this curseness of slurness that caused...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson	Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; He...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
MY MOTHER DEAR Mark Schroettner	At times she can say harsh words to scorn me so to protect me from the worldly...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Ode X: To Thomas Edwards, Esquire: On The Late Edition Of Mr. Pope's Work Mark Akenside	From such a militant divine: How Milton scorn'd the sophist vain Who durst approach his hallow'd strain With unwash'd hands and lips...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Scorn motherless child Ashley Totty	I'm a scorn motherless...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Self-love Bella Hobobo	Yet judgments come from those who scorn, Prejudice against our shape...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Sonnet 47: What, Have I thus Betray'd Sir Philip Sidney	May get no alms but scorn of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Choir Invisible George Eliot	In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)

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