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Hurry Cane Janet Muirhead Hill	acin’ ‘cross the sea. Batten down the hatches, ‘swain. He’s comin’ fast for thee. His wind doth blow, twist and spin As it churns up waves so...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
The Fan : A Poem. Book I. John Gay	Think how you pin'd in absense of the swain: By those uneasy minutes know my...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Bit Of Color Arthur Macy	Of many a tender, lovelorn swain; But never, I ween, brought half the woe That comes from the lips at the Porte...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things William Ernest Henley	For sot, and seer, and swain, For emperors and for churls, For antidote and bane, There is but one refrain: But one...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Bush Study, A La Watteau Arthur Patchett Martin	Pray speak unto the swain who hither paces With slow steps, as though in pain, across the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem Jean de La Fontaine	From wreaking further vengeance on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue Betwixt Cordanus And Amoret, On A Lost Heart Richard Lovelace	I shall but say, kind swain, what doth become Of a lost heart, ere to Elysium It wounded...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fairy Tale In The Ancient English Style Thomas Parnell	At this the Swain whose vent'rous Soul No Fears of Magick Art controul, Advanc'd in open sight; ‘Nor have I Cause...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life. James Thomson	In his own loose-revolving fields, the swain Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A panegyric to sir lewis pemberton Robert Herrick	To the lank stranger and the sour swain, Where both may feed and come again; For no black-bearded Vigil from thy door Beats with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Nicholas Breton	Look upon thy silly swain; By thy comfort have been seen Dead men brought to life...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ballad III: Solicitude William Shenstone	I could lay down my life for the swain, That will sing but a song in her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ballad IV: Disappointment William Shenstone	That a nymph so compleat would be sought By a swain more engaging than...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue Jonathan Swift	A Nymph and swain, Sheelah and Dermot hight; Who wont to weed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue - I Anne Killigrew	With other Swaines I see thee oft converse, Content to speak, and hear what they rehearse: But I unhappy, when...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses Anne Kingsmill Finch	Near those Beeches, scarce in view, All the Swains some Mirth pursue: To whose meeting now I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Ode. To the Hon. Sir Richard Lyttleton William Shenstone	Though school'd from Fortune's paths to fly, The swain beneath each lowering sky Would oft his fate bemoan, That he, in sylvan shades forlorn, Must...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral Of Phyllis And Corydon Nicholas Breton	Look upon thy silly swain; By thy comfort have been seen Dead men brought to life...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Pastoral. John Clare	When, to try their pleasing powers, Swains for her cull every grove,-- When she takes my meaner flowers, What can guide the choice but...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Poem For The Birth-Day Of The Right Honble The Lady Catharine Tufton Anne Kingsmill Finch	So, let my Steps pursue that Swain The humblest of th' inspired Train; Whose well-meant Verse did just appear, To lead on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Poem On The Last Day - Book II Edward Young	To teach the swain, or celebrate the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Shepherd's Dream Nicholas Breton	But as the swain amazèd stood, In this most solemn vein, Came Phyllida forth of the wood, And stood before...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song Thomas Parnell	Thyrsis, a young and am'rous Swain, Saw two, the Beauties of the Plain; Who both...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song (#3) Paul Laurence Dunbar	Nor the swart maid from her swarthier...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Song. John Dryden	Go tell Amynta, gentle swain, I would not die, nor dare complain: Thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)