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The Dolichopodan Logor of Hubristic Recidivity Mawphniang Napoleon	Ergastulum (Latin) - A prison or workhouse Incurvate (Latin) - Bent, curved inwards Caliginous (Latin) - Misty, dark Retrorse (Latin)...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Last of the Light Brigade Rudyard Kipling	For we're all of us nigh to the workhouse, an, we thought we'd call an'...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad Charles Lamb	In a wretched workhouse Age's limbs are cold: There they sit, the old men by a shivering fire, Still close and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abbey Assaroe William Allingham	At worst, no workhouse grave for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Enter Patient William Ernest Henley	of stone and iron, Cold, naked, clean-half-workhouse and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter William Schwenck Gilbert	He bore a workhouse brand; No Pa or Ma had claimed him, The Beadle found him, and The Board of Guardians named...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mister William William Schwenck Gilbert	A cut above the diet in a common workhouse...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Morning Twilight Charles Baudelaire	the depths of the workhouse, groaned again emitting their death-rattles in ragged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Suicide William Ernest Henley	And his children in the workhouse Made the world so black a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Absent-Minded Beggar Rudyard Kipling	That we sent 'em to the workhouse while their daddy hammered Paul, So we'll help the homes that Tommy left behind him...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bad Squire Charles Kingsley	At the dreary workhouse...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Black Mousquetaire: A Legend Of France Richard Harris Barham	In Namur walk'd the hospitals, workhouse and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes George Crabbe	in London then,-- Still have they being!--workhouse clearing men, Who, undisturb'd by feelings just or kind, Would parish-boys to needy tradesmen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Broken Men Rudyard Kipling	And save his wife and daughters From the workhouse and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Channel Swimmer Marriott Edgar	So they wrote him, C/o Workhouse Master, Joe were spending the summer with him, And promised him two Christmas puddings If...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Child Of The Islands - Conclusion Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	No Workhouse threatening, where the heart's sick rage Mopes like a prisoned bird within a cheerless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Empty Cup Katharine Rolston Fisher	Rain pelts the workhouse...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fallen Elm John Clare	But freedom's cottage soon was thrust aside And workhouse prisons raised upon the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lay of the Laborer Thomas Hood	To shun the workhouse walls; Where savage laws begrudge The pauper babe its breath, And doom a wife to a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Little Children Francis Ledwidge	To the workhouse on the hill, But the little children linger...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Workhouse Clock Thomas Hood	The noise of numerous feet— While round the Workhouse door The Laboring Classes flock, For...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To a Fallen Elm John Clare	Tho comforts cottage soon was thrust aside And workhouse prisons raised upon the scite Een natures dwelling far away from men The common heath became...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)