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Ontological Masque of Scales - Nature's Thespian Ruse Mawphniang Napoleon	This reptile's theatrics transcend their trope's...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Dialogue To The Memory Of Mr. Alexander Pope. Henry Austin Dobson	Unmix'd with Bathos and unmarr'd by Trope, I fling my Cap for Polish--and for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Excellent New Song Being The Intended Speech Of A Famous Orator Against Peace Jonathan Swift	I made use of a trope; that 'an heir to invite, Was like keeping her monument always in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Any Saint Francis Thompson	Trope that itself not scans Its huge significance, Which tries Cherubic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Binding Spells and Love's Epistles: A Library's Song Mawphniang Napoleon	The eternal trope of you and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eclogue The Second Thomas Chatterton	Kyng Richarde, thorough everyche trope dothe flie, And beereth meynte of Turkes onto the greene; Bie hymm the floure of Asies menn...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) Samuel Butler	His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto I Samuel Butler	His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Johnsonian Address James Brunton Stephens	” What a sorry trope For this grand culmination of our hope— This lordly pleasure-house that we have built— This...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle Wallace Stevens	This trivial trope reveals a way of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nilsson Sidney Lanier	O, if one trope, clear-cut and keen, May type the art of Song's best queen, White-hot of soul, white-chaste...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer William Cowper	But, male for female is a trope, Or rather bold misnomer, That would have startled even Pope, When he translated...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Poetry Dot Con Job. Stuart A. Chasmar	on your site you prefer the trivial trope and trivium to the septenary...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ramparts Of Freedom Kurt Philip Behm	creation’s lord, every word indentured trope In towers of despair each phrase a step —on the stairs to love and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERSITY Badal Pal	not to strive means you have a tainted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book I. The Prologue. Coventry Patmore	And, severing thus the truth from trope, ‘In you the Commentators see ‘Outlines occult of abstract scope, ‘A future for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Metaphysical Sectarian Samuel Butler	His mouth, but out there flew a Trope: And when he hapned to break off I'th middle of his speech, or cough, H'had hard words,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nevers of Poetry Charles Harpur	And no true trope should ever rest on fancy, But claim a universal relevancy; Nor think a line is racy to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Owl And The Sparrow John Trumbull	To solid learning bent his mind, In trope and syllogism he shined, 'Gainst reigning follies spent his railing; Too much a Stoic--'twas...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Peace Convention At Brussels John Greenleaf Whittier	To capsize navies with a windy trope; Still shall the glory and the pomp of War Along their train the shouting millions draw;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poetry Thesaurus Stuart A. Chasmar	Enter here to find that trope and the trophy that you grope for along with helio and calliope sound-like words you hope for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Rev. J. Gilpin, On His Improved Edition Of The "Pilgrim'S Progress." Patrick Bronte	Relaxes half to vacant smile, And aims with trope and polished style, And lisp affected, to pourtray Its silly self in colours gay, Its fusty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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