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In the Height of Fashion Henry Lawson	Then our country, cold and scornful, Answered, “Go and get a...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
One Being Brought From Africa To America Phillis Wheatley	Some view our sable race with scornful eye, 'Their colour is a diabolic...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Sonnet 08: Celebrating Black Grandeur Christen Kuikoua	A brutal echo of the world's scornful...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Fan : A Poem. Book I. John Gay	But still unmov'd remains the scornful dame, Insults her captive, and derides his...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Village Street Edgar Allan Poe	She, the silent, scornful maiden, Walking calmly at my side, With a step serene and stately, All in beauty, all...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	And a scornful laugh laughed...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Trust God Richard Newton Sherrer	He is scornful to the scorners, But the humble, He gives them grace; They are the righteous sojourners, ...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
QUEST Olusesan Adesanya	“In this scornful city of painful drama” Lost to lustful lunatics leaning...	Rate it (4.00 / 4 votes)
A Scurvy Plight Stacy Mevoli	How could thine heart be of scornful mockery Shall thou live forever in my dire...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
A Calendar of Sonnets: October Helen Hunt Jackson	Like jewels on her costliest array; October, scornful, burns them on a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Complete 100 Floors Nikhil Parekh	wailed in discordant unison about the scornful creases to their immaculate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix And Timothy Jonathan Swift	When to look scornful, when to smile; Nor sputter out your oaths so fast, But keep your swearing to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream Ayomidse Damilare	I glanced with a scornful look of “how could you when i'm dead” Clothed and sheltered giving a refuge by a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Few Remarks on Goats, Asses and the Dead Hand Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	each decline his scornful and uptilted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Last Confession Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Into her scornful face; and heard the sea Still trying hard to din into my ears Some speech it knew which...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Little Green-Eyed Lass Christopher Commodore	From seeing what those scornful grown-ups find The judgments that they heap on me Oh, how my spirit starts at what will be ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Man's a Sliding Mood Mary E Fullerton	Loud in the market, timid in debate: Scornful of foe unbuckled in the dust At whimper of a child compassionate, A man's a sliding mood from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North Jonathan Swift	To show my face with scornful air; Let others match it if they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Political Violet Ambrose Bierce	Will rise from earth and point At you a scornful finger which May lack, perchance, a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A song written by the earl of surrey Henry Howard	' But such a scornful chere, wherewith she him rewarded...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada William Strode	His trembling threads; sometimes in scornful wise He brushes down the strings and keemes them all With one even stroke; then takes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Valentine Eugene Field	And though she rolls a scornful eye On doting me when I go by; And though she scouts at everything As tribute unto her I bring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Vision of Poesy - Part 02 Henry Timrod	from cities, I Forgot the scornful world that passed me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Vision Out West Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	Where grass land stretches mile on mile, keep scornful solitary guard; Where the sweet spell is not yet broke, while from her wind-swept,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Vision Out West Barcroft Boake	Where grass land stretches mile on mile, keep scornful solitary guard; Where the sweet spell is not yet broke, while from her wind-swept,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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