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The Elder Brother. George Colman	A fusty, canting, stiff-rump'd Maiden Aunt: The wealthy Miss Lucretia Cloghorty,-- Who had brought Isaac up, and own'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The End of the World, Act I Lascelles Abercrombie	Twisted stiff in huge paper, and wheels Bit as the wall of a barn treading me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The End of the World, Act II Lascelles Abercrombie	'tis Shale Has lived the bold stiff fashion, and filled himself With thinking pride in what a man may...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Everlasting Return Lola Ridge	Our thews grown stiff as a crooked spine that would not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Expert Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	One more kid, chancin' to roam, Knocked stiff in sight of his own house door One more grief-stricken home An' poor Bill, eyes still...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fable of Dryope - Ovid's Metamorphoses Alexander Pope	Her stiff'ning feet were rooted in the ground: In vain to free her fasten'd feet she strove, And as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fishermen John Greenleaf Whittier	In the bitter air congeals, And our lines wind stiff and slowly From off the frozen reels; Though the fog be dark around us, And the storm blow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Foolish Fir-Tree Henry Van Dyke	He looked at his needles so stiff and small, And thought that his dress was the poorest of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Frost Spirit John Greenleaf Whittier	Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice, And the luckless forms below In the sunless cold of the lingering night Into...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Gaberlunzie's Walk Sydney Thompson Dobell	Till ilka hair that he might wear was stiff an' stark...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ghost of the Murderer's Hut Andrew Barton Paterson	With terror my features were stiff, Till the thing gave a kind of a roar, Ending up with a resonant...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Glove Robert Browning	The tail in the air stiff and straining, The wide eyes, nor waxing nor waning, As over the barrier which bounded...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Golden Year! Alfred Austin	When winter fields stretched stiff and stark, And wintry winds shrilled eerie, I saw him creep, alone, at dark, Into the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Good Conceit Thomas William Hodgson Crosland	It matters not how stiff and sheer The climb -- how difficult the sum, I am the man they've got to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE GREAT GATSBY - The Conscience KEYMO	stiff...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three Tristan Tzara	are too thin we have no mouth our legs are stiff and knock together our faces are formeless like the stars crystal points without strength...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Green-Hand Rouseabout Henry Lawson	by the yoke of wool, and shirt and trousers stiff with grease, Till you long for sight of verdure, cabbage-plots and water clear, And you crave...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Grey Brethren (Prose) Michael Fairless	I watched Benjamin, the old gardener--a most 'stiff-backed Friend' despite his stoop and his seventy years--putting scarlet geraniums and yellow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hand Of Glory: The Nurse's Story Richard Harris Barham	That little pug-dog stands stark and stiff, For low, yet clear, Now fall on the ear, Where once pronounced for ever they dwell, The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Healing Sound Srishti Dubey	In the hardest of times, she stand...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Heathen Pass-ee Arthur Clement Hilton	How the next day at two As stiff paper was sett By Examiner...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Jacket The Jacket	a stranger can fit me for a Suit It was stiff, uncomfortable, and expensive Just like a kindergartener's Pursuit When i Lost the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The jaffa and jerusalem railway Eugene Field	A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair; Some postal cars, and baggage, too; a vestibule of patent make; With...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Jazzy Bard Franklin P. Adams	Bitin' a hole in my fountain pen; Brain's all stiff in the creakin' joints, Can't make up no wheezes on the fourteen points; Can't think o'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The King and Queen and I Henry Lawson	And though I’m down and precious stiff and I admire King Ned, I’d sooner just be Harry, with his follies on his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)