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1PoetUSA 1PoetUSA	Political system least apt to seat the venal in offices Citizens live as Citizens vote, their Political Morality Ethos of the Republic,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Border Burn Alfred Austin	Foul city, venal mart, Will cloud the fairness of your face, And desecrate your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream Robert Burns	That's unco easy said aye: The poets, too, a venal gang, Wi' rhymes weel-turn'd an' ready, Wad gar you trow ye ne'er do wrang, But aye...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream. Robert Burns	That's unco easy said ay; The poets, too, a venal gang, Wi' rhymes weel-turn'd and ready, Wad gar you trow ye ne'er do wrang, But ay...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Legacy. Henry Austin Dobson	The venal,-- The sordid friend had scarce survived A test so penal; But you--Nay, nay, 'tis...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	And modern innkeepers, who cringe and bow, And venal echoes, and Pans paid to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A poem, Sacred to the Glorious memory of King George Richard Savage	Accept this Po'esy, void of venal Aim, Made sacred by thy Royal Master's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Te Deum Alfred Austin	When lover and maiden meet, And the venal kisses they sell In the shade of the lamp-lit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Occasional Prologue, Delivered Previous To The Performance Of 'The Wheel Of Fortune' At A Private Theatre George Gordon Lord Byron	No venal views our prosress can retard, Your generous plaudits are our sole...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Doctor Rabelais Eugene Field	On her triumphant brow: 'Aha, ye venal doctors all, Ye are outwitted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy I. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country William Shenstone	I bade Augusta's venal sons farewell; Now 'mid the trees I see my smoke arise, Now hear the fountains bubbling round...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy III. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance William Shenstone	Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XIX. - Written in Spring, 1743 William Shenstone	Abjure these scenes, from venal passions free; Know, in this grove, I vow'd perpetual hate, War, endless war, with lucre and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XXII. Written in the Year ----, When the Rights of Sepulture Were So Frequently Violated William Shenstone	Some venal mourner lent his careless aid, And soon they bore me to my native soil, Where my fond...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (excerpt) George Gordon Lord Byron	For this we spurn Apollo's venal son, And bid a long "good night to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistle To The Bishop Of Landaff. William Hayley	That friendship welcomes from no venal muse, When worth time-honour'd, still as frank as youth, Owns that her words of praise are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistles To Mr. Pope. Epistle I. Edward Young	Does virtue ne'er seduce the venal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
For Righteousness' Sake John Greenleaf Whittier	Wage in your name their ancient war With venal courts and perjured...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Granta: A Medley George Gordon Lord Byron	The price of venal votes to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Independence Charles Churchill	Have stoop'd to prostitute their venal pen For the support of great, but guilty men; Have made the bard, of their own vile...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Inebriety George Crabbe	flood; The opening valves, which fill the venal road, Then scarcely urge along the sanguine flood; The labouring pulse a slower motion rules,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
La Muse Vénale (The Venal Muse) Charles Baudelaire	The Venal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nature in Perfection Richard Savage	Virgil...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Night. An Epistle To Robert Lloyd. Charles Churchill	Let every venal clanand neutral tribe Learn to receive conditions, not prescribe; Let each new year call loud...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode III: To A Friend, Unsuccessful In Love Mark Akenside	Bid her adieu, the venal fair: Unworthy she your bliss to prove; Then wherefore should she prove your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)