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Against Scoffing and Calling Names Isaac Watts	When children, in their wanton play, Served old Elisha so, And bade the prophet go his way, "Go up, thou bald head,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Against The Love Of Great Ones. Richard Lovelace	may as soone With fawning wanton with the Moone, Or with an amorous complaint Get prostitute your very saint; Not that we are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ainsi Va le Monde Mary Darby Robinson	Glares wanton mirth, and fulsome...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Al Aaraaf: Part 2 Edgar Allan Poe	From the wild energy of wanton haste Her cheeks were flushing, and her lips aPart; And zone that clung around her gentle...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alabaster Statuette Wallace Dean LaBenne	a translucent nude in a show of wanton...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Saint's Day John Keble	- As bloodhounds hush their baying wild To wanton with some fearless child, So Famine waits, and War with greedy eyes, Till some repenting...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Allegro Maestoso William Ernest Henley	And life, and all for which life lives to long, Wanton and wondrous and for ever...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alleyways Of Stone Kurt Philip Behm	A thoroughfare of wanton time each choice a dead end...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alsace-Lorraine George Meredith	Laboured mounds that a foot or a wanton stick may subvert; Homely are they for a lowly look on bedewed grass-blades, On...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amaryllis Thomas Campion	Give me kind Amaryllis, the wanton country...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
America John Boyle O'Reilly	Their wanton will could raise, enrich, condemn; The toiling millions lived and died for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amos Sibley Edgar Lee Masters	I loathed her as a termagant, as a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amphion Alfred Lord Tennyson	Oh, nature first was fresh to men, And wanton without measure; So youthful and so flexile then, You moved her at your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ecstacy Francis Quarles	That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, And having ranged and search'd a thousand nooks, Meet both at length...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Elegy on Parting James Thomson	And with her wanton smiles insults my tears; Still haunts the places where we used to walk, And where with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Epistle Addressed To Sir Thomas Hanmer, On His Edition Of Shakspeare's Works William Taylor Collins	With graceful ease the wanton lyre he strung; Sweet flow'd the lays—but love was all he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Hymne In Honour Of Love Edmund Spenser	And ye, faire blossoms of youths wanton...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Infinite Times Better Nikhil Parekh	of acrimoniously orphaned and preposterously wanton...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Ode To Spring In The Metropolis Owen Seaman	See, see, he shakes His big red hands at me in wanton...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anacreontic William Shenstone	The wanton Cupid, spent with toil, Had sought...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anacreontick II Thomas Parnell	Dancing Graces, idle Joy, Wanton Smiles, and airy Play, Conspir'd to make the Scene be gay; Love pair'd the Birds through all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Analogy Francis William Lauderdale Adams	Had you lived when a wanton crew, Flash scoundrels of a day outdone, Trod down the toilers birth derides, With Cromwell...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Analogy. (To D - - L - - .) Francis William Lauderdale Adams	Had you lived when a wanton crew, Flash scoundrels of a day outdone, Trod down the toilers birth derides, With Cromwell...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
And God creates Jet Rood	and teasing enjoying each other wanton and pleasure in one It takes two to tango arms and legs folded around each other in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Anno aetatis 17. On the Death of a fair Infant dying of a Cough. John Milton	Which 'mongst the wanton gods a foul reproach was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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