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A Melody Unsung Kurt Philip Behm	Can your soul stay undamaged as the world tempts your heart Can you run through other voices with yours still...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Clovelly Adam Gutteridge	The street tempts further a storied decline Sledges wait ready...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Do you have depression Kameron M.	you have bladeless razors hidden away, failed attempts it tempts you to make wounds that penetrate all the way...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Take Me Back, Scatter Me, Scatter Me Gregory Baranoff	Jump in if the water tempts you, do a cannonball for me, but better yet, Swing out on the rope if it’s still...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Melody Unsung Kurt Philip Behm	Can your heart stay undamaged as the world tempts your soul Can you run through loud voices with yours still...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet II Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	'' This tempts me in the night--time, and I loose My soul to dalliance with youth's broken...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A new year'S gift,sent to sir simeon steward Robert Herrick	From the plump chalice and the cup That tempts till it be tossed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wayside Queen Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	She has little regret and less ruth As she tempts men to murder their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. William Cowper	Flies rapidly away; And as it flies, allures And tempts you to exclaim, sweet river,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alone Hasan Johnson	But she entertains the devil He tempts her and she feeds me now I’m like a rebel Removed from the garden Now I have no purpose ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anacreon: Ode 9 Samuel Johnson	But the liberal grant in vain Tempts me to be wild...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anew Rishabh Motwani	Acting still helps, ignorance sometimes tempts, what now favourite...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arrogance Hamza Amin	In the tempts of world, do not be indulged What requisite is the man to be abide Arrogance arose, an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ash Wednesday John Keble	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Asphyxiated Reverie : Riddles in the Void Mawphniang Napoleon	That taunts and tempts beyond the deadly breach How cruel the disparity appears Between the verdant trees...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Astrophel and Stella - Fift Song. Sir Philip Sidney	For thy face tempts my soule to leaue the heauens for thee, And thy words of refuse do powre euen hell on mee:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bacchanalia Matthew Arnold	Tempts not the revel...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bacchanalia Or The New Age Matthew Arnold	Tempts not the revel...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beast Brejesh Umashankar	It tempts me with visions of her, beyond compare, Compelling me to question, who's with her out...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cadenus And Vanessa Jonathan Swift	His mother's aid no youth invokes— This tempts free-thinkers to refine, And bring in doubt their powers divine, Now love is dwindled to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
December December	It was one of those December nights enticingly tempts me into...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
December December	It was one of those December nights enticingly tempts me into...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
deed of my wor siyah.el'mumba	is hate manifeesting at rate only tempts can measur thus it is passion of the man that fans thy rage to place it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eclogue the Second Hassan William Taylor Collins	Yet money tempts us o'er the desert brown, To every distant mart and wealthy town: Full oft we tempt the land...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Efficient Prayer Richard Newton Sherrer	While the whole world lies; That tempts you to be flawed, With Satan in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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