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A Te Deum Alfred Austin	And the stare of the stony Sphynx O'er the ribs of the fleshless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Avec ses vêtements ondoyants et nacrés (With Waving Opalescense In Her Gown) Charles Baudelaire	Her nature, both by sphynx and angel furnished, Is old, intact, symbolic, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson	Gressie, the trivial sphynx; and to our feast Daisy and Barb and Chancellor (she not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
La Beauté (Beauty) Charles Baudelaire	azure space, a sphynx that none divine, no hateful motion mars my lovely line, nor tears nor laughter shall I ever...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Wife Is A Most Knowing Woman Stephen C. Foster	Is a riddle would puzzle a sphynx, On fair days, when we go out walking, If ladies look at me askance, In the most harmless way,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
ROARING QUIET Syed Waqar Haider Jafri.	At other times and in other places, too Sphynx of a death-dealing faith Was ever so voluble of False love and yellow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song Of The Exposition Walt Whitman	Silent through time the broken-lipp'd Sphynx in Egypt--silent those century-baffling tombs; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Giant Cactus Of Arizona Harriet Monroe	Wiser than Sphynx or pyramid, It points a stark hand at the sky, And all the stars alight or hid It counts...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Golden Journey William Vaughn Moody	All day the fountain sphynx lets drip Slow drops of silence from her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Kangaroo Barron Field	Sphynx or mermaid realiz'd, Or centaur unfabulous, Would scarce be more prodigious, Or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Toad And Spyder. A Duell Richard Lovelace	And now me thinks a Sphynx's wing I pluck, and do not write, but sting; With their black blood my pale inks blent, Gall's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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