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Defiling The Unknown Kurt Philip Behm	With prophecy wrapped in their folly misled What’s still undiscovered, leaves dogma...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Delight In God Only Francis Quarles	Wisdom, but folly; joy, disquiet, sadness; Friendship is treason, and delights are snares; Pleasures, but pain;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Democritus And The People Of Abdera. Jean de La Fontaine	Profane, unjust, with childish folly fraught; It breaks and bends the rays of truth divine, And by its own conceptions measures...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Difficult Times Ahead Richard Newton Sherrer	But they will not get very far, Their folly will be plain to all; Since they do follow a dark...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Discipline Richard Newton Sherrer	The mouth of fools demanding, Feeds on folly and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Domestic Scene Robert William Service	But for my ruin I must thank My folly for a floozie...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto The Third George Gordon Lord Byron	Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Rafael Emma Lazarus	'All those through whom I learned The sweet of folly and the pains of love, My Rose, my Star, my Comforter, my Dove, For whom, poor moth, I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dreams Edgar Allan Poe	'Twere folly still to hope for higher...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick Samuel Johnson	37 Exulting Folly hail'd the joyful day, 38 And pantomime, and song, confirm'd her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Duality Arthur Sherburne Hardy	The folly against which each feigns to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Duna Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall	With folly on my lips, Fain was I for journeying All...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Earth the Healer, Earth the Keeper William Morris	Like the dark night's empty wind, Because thy folly soweth The harvest of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Earthly Of Eternally! Phillips Tayo	While eternally courting kingship, Riding the folly of their long hands, The thunder strikes, the skies changes, A comrades goes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Echuca Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Handmaid of kindlier kinship when Madness and folly fall from men And they, with towns, grow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Edmund's Wedding Mary Darby Robinson	From folly's bright tinsel will turn, undelighted-- And find, at the grave where thy AGNES is sleeping,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ego John Greenleaf Whittier	Of garlands wreathed from Folly's bowers, Of idle aims and misspent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elected Tyrants Matthew Snyder	And a bug is to a shoe As wisdom to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy James Beattie	Impatient throng where Folly's altars flame, My languid powers dissolve with quick decay, Till genial Sleep repair the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy (Tir'd with the busy crouds) James Beattie	Impatient throng where Folly's altars flame, My languid powers dissolve with quick decay, Till genial Sleep repair...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy On A Young Thrush Helen Maria Williams	The good he well discerns through folly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XIV. Declining an Invitation To Visit Foreign Countries William Shenstone	Th' exotic folly knows its native clime; An awkward stranger, if we waft it o'er; Why then these toils, this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy XXVI. Describing the Sorrow of An Ingeneous Mind William Shenstone	'Of folly studious, even of vices vain, Ah, vices gilded by the rich and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Empathy’s embrace Elizabeth lily	Judgment's folly, now crystal clear, Empathy's light must always...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Empty Barrels Kurt Philip Behm	not to deceive Delusion and bluster —your folly revealed (Dreamsleep:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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