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The memoir of the reluctant prodigal Michael Achile Umameh	In spite of my negative living and being carnal Self-seeking as always, selfish and purblind as ever...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Men We Might Have Been Henry Lawson	The brave, the true, and clean, And triumph yet in spite of The men we might have...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Milch Kangaroo Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Tho' some thought his methods shady; For, in spite of all that they could say or do, 'Twas the thing he kept concealin', Past the hope of all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nightingale La Fontaine	In spite of all he might devise A squeeze, a kiss, quick talk of eyes Was all he could obtain, no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old, Old Story and the New Order Henry Lawson	Have faith, my friends, who stand by me, In spite of all the lies— I tell you that a man shall die On the day that Lawson...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Passionate Pilgrim William Shakespeare	So beauty blemish'd once's for ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pencil Seller Robert William Service	It came in spite of me -- aye, stare and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Photograph Constantine P. Cavafy	But in spite of all this, and even more, you remain for me the dream-like face, the figure shaped for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pilgrim's Fathers John Boyle O'Reilly	And here revived, in spite of sword and stake,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Piute Ambrose Bierce	He multiplies upon the earth In spite of all admonishing; All censure his astonishing And versatile...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poet Bernard O'Dowd	Because through the forested æons, in spite of the priests of the Night, Undeterred by the faggot or cross, uncorrupted by glory or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prodigal Son Rudyard Kipling	And, in spite of the butler's gravity, I know that the servants have it I Am a monster of moral depravity, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Race Adam Lindsay Gordon	Like corpses embalm'd and unburied They lie, and in spite of our will, Our souls on the wings of thought carried, Revisit their sepulchres still; Down...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Republic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rhyme of the Three Greybeards Henry Lawson	In spite of all the stories and sketches that he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The River Scamander La Fontaine	Lest she might give offence by what she said, In spite of bashfulness that bliss alloys, Soon all concluded with celestial...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Romance of Britomarte Adam Lindsay Gordon	(Mine, too, in spite of my sinister bar, But with that my story has naught to do)— She died the winter before the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Romance Of Patrolman Casey Ellis Parker Butler	(It was in spite of freckles that Her name was Kate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ruling Thought Count Giacomo Leopardi	And I would still return, In spite of all my sad experience, Towards such a goal, my course to recommence; For through the sands,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Schoolhouse On The Plain Joseph Furphy	In spite of the indifference they feign; Whilst the mothers of the youth listen to the word of truth, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Seeker Roderic Quinn	That point to stars, and still point on in spite of this dark, drawing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shearers Dream Henry Lawson	And we all of us cried when the shed cut out in spite of the long hot days For every hour them girls waltzed in with whisky and beer on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherd's Week : Thursday; or, The Spell John Gay	Thee first I spy'd, and the first swain we see, In spite of fortune shall our true-love be; See, Lubberkin, each bird his partner take, And canst thou...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherds Calendar - February - A Thaw John Clare	Runs many a wild and random chase Following in spite of chiding calls The startld cat wi harmless glee Scaring her up the weed green walls Or mossy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sign Of Christ's Birth Was Given John Hugo Cullen	In spite of the signs, lying and deceiving increased aplenty, and the Gadianton Robbers increased, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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