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What is the Future of Democracy? Karl Constantine FOLKES	the artifice platformed, glamorized to whet our lust; democracy in its wake deformed, designed — with...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Loving-Cup Song Oliver Wendell Holmes	Old Time his rusty scythe may whet, The unmowed grass is glowing yet Beneath the sheltering snow, my boys; And if the crazy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Prologue John Dryden	So this green writer may pretend, at least, To whet your stomachs for a better...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arrow Stephen Colley	Instead, whet what desire Deeply needs, keep keen the mind’s Delight in any...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Australian War Song Henry Kendall	Hurl, Australians, back the lie; Whet the swords you have in keeping, Forward stand to do or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Battle Of The Norsemen And The Gaels. Victor-Marie Hugo	A mouthful to the wolves who slake Their month-whet thirst. No captives, none! We die or win! but should we die, The lopped-off hand will wave on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Blades Padraic Colum	The sparks that were from the edges whet As eagerly and wittingly The dullness of each blade scoured he, And the brow he bent was like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Captain Carpenter John Crowe Ransom	From an anatomy with little to lose Whether he cut my tongue and take my voice Or whether it be my round red heart he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chained Puppet Nikhil Parekh	to whet their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Damon The Mower Andrew Marvell	But, when the Iron blunter grows, Sighing I whet my Sythe and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy VI John Donne	Careless despair in me, for that will whet My mind to scorn; and Oh, love dulled with pain Was ne'er so wise, nor well armed as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Epistles To Mr. Pope. Epistle I. Edward Young	Shall we not censure all the motley train, Whether with ale irriguous, or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fragmentary Blue Robert Frost	It only gives our wish for blue a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gettin Back Henry Lawson	Where clear streams whet our appetites — we're getting back, don't...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Holy Sonnet XVII: Since She Whom I Loved John Donne	the admiring her my mind did whet To seek thee, God; so streams do show the head; But though I have found thee, and thou my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
HOLY SONNETS: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt John Donne	Here the admiring her my mind did whet To seek thee, God; so streams do show the head; But though I have found thee, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hunter's Song Sir Walter Scott	The bows they bend, and the knives they whet, Hunters live so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Introduction To The True-Born Englishman Daniel Defoe	there's none can tell like thee Whether 'tis folly, pride, or knavery That makes this discontented land appear Less happy now in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - part 03 Torquato Tasso	" This heard, the tyrant did for rage begin To whet his teeth, and bend his frowning look, No pity, youth; fairness, no grace could win; Joy,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
La Vie de Boheme Amy Lowell	Alone, I whet my soul against the keen Unwrinkled sky, with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, On the Approach of Spring Robert Burns	My sister and my fae, Grim Vengeance yet shall whet a sword That thro' thy soul shall gae; The weeping blood in woman's breast Was never known...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Last Night in Old Bangkok Jeffrey Lynn Naylor	my doll was gone to whet the taste of other lonely souls, of men who measure love in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Love Of Fame, The Universal Passion. Satire II Edward Young	As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set: Their want of edge from their offence is seen; Both pain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Marmion: Introduction to Canto II. Sir Walter Scott	His tusks upon my stem would whet; While doe, and roe, and red-deer good, Have bounded by, through gay...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Marmion: Introduction to Canto III. Sir Walter Scott	Her champion, ere he strike, shall come To whet his sword on Brunswick's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)