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An Epistle To William Hogarth. Charles Churchill	And ladies, simpering, own'd it vastly sweet; Rogues, in thy prudent verse with virtue graced, Fools mark'd by thee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
But Yet I Surrendered Nikhil Parekh	The most simpering of deserts on this Universe stupidly failed to scorch me; as I celestially floated in a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Come With Me JaceSon P. Barrus	keep me in the pillows but you insist with your simpering look, an allusion to something I can't quite...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Delinquent Loneliness Nikhil Parekh	the lecherously venomous thorn of; simpering...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Drapers Dummies Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	' No simpering lady e'er turns up: For, still in their windows...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt) George Gordon Lord Byron	Immeasurable measures move along; For simpering folly loves a varied song, To strange mysterious dulness still the friend, Admires...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women ) Alexander Pope	Or drest in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine, With simpering Angels, Palms, and Harps divine; Whether the Charmer sinner it, or saint it, If Folly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Know The Face Of Falsehood And Her Tongue Edna St. Vincent Millay	To hear her simpering accents in the hall, Nor force an entrance past mephitic airs Of stale patchoulie hanging on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Johnsonian Address James Brunton Stephens	From grisly Johnson in his suit of snuff To simpering Chloe in her native buff— Those cloisters, in whose tesselated aisles Sits Nicotina wreathed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Miss Thompson Goes Shopping Martin Armstrong	Peeped in the glass with simpering blush, From camphor-smelling cupboard took Her thicker jacket off the hook Because the day...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Oh terrible, beloved! A poet's loving Boris Pasternak	Because, where they distort and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Gallows Of Nikhil Parekh	ghost of criminally derogatory and atrociously simpering;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens	And then, the simpering Byzantines Fled, with a noise like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Game Charles Baudelaire	pale, eyebrows blacked, eyes ‘tender’, ‘fatal’, simpering still, and from their skinny ears loosing their waterfalls of stone and metal: Round the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pantomime Super to His Mask William Schwenck Gilbert	Excellent type of simpering...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Philistine And The Bohemian Robert William Service	" This simpering dandy, so sleek and spruce; This languorous lily in garments loose; They sought to brace from...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Youthful Friend George Gordon Lord Byron	There dost thou glide from fair to fair, Still simpering on with eager haste, As flies along the gay parterre That taint the flowers they scarcely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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