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A Greeting John Greenleaf Whittier	With old New England's flavor rife, Waifs from her rude idyllic life, Are racy as the legends old By Chaucer or Boccaccio told; To her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Memory John Greenleaf Whittier	The sport of Time, who still apart The waifs of life is flinging; Oh, nevermore shall heart to heart Draw nearer for that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Year's Burden -- 1870 Algernon Charles Swinburne	Where the waifs drift of hopes that were to be, Across the red rolled foam we look for thee, Across the fire...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adoption Robert William Service	That from the evil slums they came, Two waifs of want and woe; I fostered them with love and care As if they were my own: Now John,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Appeal To My Countrywomen. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	Disinherited from their birth, The wee waifs and toddlers neglected, Robbed of sunshine, music and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Appeal to My Countywomen Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	Disinherited from their birth, The wee waifs and toddlers neglected, Robbed of sunshine, music and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Autumn Reverie William Topaz McGonagall	Also of the little street waifs, that are driven to and fro, And trembling in the cold blast, and chilled to the bone, For...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arakoon Henry Kendall	White and wailing waifs of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
As Consequent, Etc. Walt Whitman	These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry, Wash'd on America's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
DEVISE VALUE Hubbs	fools splash out to the wave of control as waifs wave for attention they long ago had waive Now notice cherished device is a vice by devise...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Drifting Away: A Fragment Charles Kingsley	buoy upon a roaring river, Round whom the tide-waifs hang-then drift to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Evangeline: Part The First. V. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Honours - Part2 Jean Ingelow	Under an ancient...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn To Death Alfred Austin	Or had I used the years as waifs and strays, To build myself a comfortable nest, Groped life for golden garbage, like the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
James Lionel Michael Henry Kendall	All the wilful waifs that make Beauty’s face, Let them sojourn for his sake Round this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Laus Veneris Algernon Charles Swinburne	Hot as the brackish waifs of yellow spume That shift and steam — loose clots of arid fume From the sea's panting mouth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Leaves Frederic Manning	Flicker in falling, like waifs and flakes of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
MDCCCXCIII: A Prelude Christopher John Brennan	airs of elfin tone and gipsy waifs of song, a dancing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Night In State Street Harriet Monroe	Eager to stare and shout At vaudeville waifs of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Or From That Sea Of Time Walt Whitman	I give;) 10 These thoughts and Songs--waifs from the deep--here, cast high and dry, Wash'd on America's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XX: Gracious Moonlight Dante Gabriel Rossetti	O'er water-daisies and wild waifs of Spring, There where the iris rears its gold-crowned sheaf With flowering rush and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnett VI: A Nuptial Sleep Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Of watered light and dull drowned waifs of day; Till from some wonder of new woods and streams He woke, and wondered more: for there...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Soothsay Dante Gabriel Rossetti	The wild waifs cast up by the sea Are diverse ever...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Taken For Granted Wallace Dean LaBenne	we are unclaimed, foundling waifs do we conceive the shielding love that for children's needs...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto I. Coventry Patmore	And shaped the clouds in waifs and zones, And wafted down the serious strain Of Sarum bells, when, true to time, I reach'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)