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Sestina: Altaforte
Ezra Pound
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
Far from where worth's won and the swords clash
For the death of such sluts I go...
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An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion In His Sickness
Anne Kingsmill Finch
Wild with my Cares, and Womanish in...
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Babel: The Gate Of The God
Gordon Bottomley
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But here a grave contemptuous youth cries out
'Womanish babblers, how can we build god's altar
Ere we divine its foreordained true shape?'
Then one 'It...
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Henry Bartle Edward Frere
Alfred Austin
And womanish Tribunes hush the manly drum:
The very fear of Empire strikes us numb,
Fumbling with pens,...
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Narcissus
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
'Is ways was...
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Of sardanapalus'S dishonorable life and miserable death.
Henry Howard
Drenched in sloth and womanish...
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Skeeta ( An Old Servant's Tale )
Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake
womanish guile -
The "prince" from the great Never-Never, with
  light touch of lips and...
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Speculum Tuscanismi
Gabriel Harvey
No words but valorous, no works but womanish...
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The Huron Chief’s Daughter
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
She had firmly vowed no plaints of hers, or womanish weak tears
Would glad her foes but, as became her rank and lineage high,
That she would, like...
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The Zenana - 6 The Raki
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All womanish complaint and wail have in its utterance past:
They kneel at Kurnavati’s feet, they bathe...
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Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel
Alfred Austin
Of English fame, to pamper womanish ease
And swell the surfeits of voracious trade
Shall the impregnable breakers undermine,...
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