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A Curate's Complaint. Edward Woodley Bowling	To regions far elope, Regions by starch untainted, And innocent of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Report From Below! Thomas Hood	Round, and sees her at a distance, As stiff as starch, and looked as dead as any thing in existence; All scorched and grimed, and more than that, I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alphabet, No. 5. Edward Lear	Where washerwomen sat; They made a lot of lovely starch To starch Papa's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Black Kate Henry Kendall	If you poke and grope about: Not a bit of starch or blue— Not a sign of soap...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Black Lizzie Henry Kendall	I will not say, O lady free from scents and starch, That you are like, in any way, The authoress of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bridegroom Dick Herman Melville	Break through the starch o' the quarter-deck realm; His coxswain late, so the Commodore's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chalk Powder Nikhil Parekh	transformed into a curry of immaculate starch, And I was easily able to whitewash the periphery of the dilapidated mansion; with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Children of Guernica Ronald Tirino	dressed in delicate dressings starch white linen in ghostly silence the lambs laid out to rest Once so shocking citizen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cinderella. Clara Doty Bates	Oh, then poor Cinderella Had to starch, and iron, and plait, And run of errands, frill and crimp, And ruffle, early and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Free Verse Robert Graves	That march, Stiff as starch, Foot to foot, Boot to boot, Blade to blade, Button to button, Cheeks and chops and chins...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Grandfather Bridgeman George Meredith	all the echoing young ones, but John, with the starch in his throat, Said, 'Father, before we make noises, let's see the contents of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lead Soldiers Amy Lowell	March Tommy's soldiers, stiff and starch, Boldly stepping to the rattle Of the drums, they go to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mothers Day, 1958 Jody Serey	mother was alive the scent of starch, and the perfume he’d bought at Christmas, the kind she’d worn when they were...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old Vets Are The Worst Stuart A. Chasmar	They lose their verve They lack the starch once their kids can serve or march Old vets are the worst...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Portrayal Of god Nikhil Parekh	God nestles in starch white currency notes, earned through perspiring hard labor, streaks of gifted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Boy Out Of Church Robert Graves	I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Faithless Wife Federico García Lorca	The starch of her petticoat sounded in my ears like a piece of silk rent by ten...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The last hem Seema Ali	My last hem I stitch it in starch Lest the good times...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The River Harold Robert Nathan Davis	The River Harold codswallop fancies for starch white tulips and balderdash...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherd's Week : Friday; or, The Dirge John Gay	Set off with kerchief starch'd and pinners...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thirty-Eight Charlotte Smith	Then the starch maid, or matron sage, Already at the sober age, We view'd with mingled scorn and hate; In...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Transparency Valentin Luchenko	its freshly baked bread, young wine, olives, starch napkins in the tavern and woolen coat, that warms you on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Where's Juliet? Chante Abbott	seas, Render thy hope of one quithering breath, Starch these words as I fade to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)