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David and Goliath The 4 a.m. bard	Wives and mothers kiss their loved- ones goodbye, Fleeing their homes with a heavy sigh, Not sure...	Rate it (4.75 / 8 votes)
Alone Maya Angelou	With money they can't use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They've got expensive doctors To...	Rate it (4.75 / 4 votes)
Mr and Mrs Discobbolos Edward Lear	Without any chance of husbands or...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
The Defence of Lucknow Alfred Lord Tennyson	among us, God help them, our children and...	Rate it (3.50 / 2 votes)
Plebeian Plutocrat Robert William Service	The bustle and the din; The market wives who gab aloud As they go out and...	Rate it (3.00 / 1 vote)
III. The Shadow Of Lilith Christopher John Brennan	Lamia and Melusine, and whatsoe'er of serpent-wives is feign'd, or malice of the vampire-witch that drain'd fresh blood of fresh-born babes, a...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
OUR ERROR NKEGBE CHUKWUEMEKA JOSHUA	of error Wives' widows rise at the blink of the sun Husbands' widowers follow suit because of error ...	Rate it (1.00 / 1 vote)
"In The Future " Robert G. Szymanski	e's no sex life, there's no husbands, there is no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
'Look at The Clock!' : Patty Morgan The Milkmaid's Story Richard Harris Barham	Your wife,-- ay, a dozen of wives,-- for a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
12 Ights Nigel McKain	12 wives stay up for hours, counting every second after midnight 12 unknown widows hoping their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
9/11 9/11	Mums,dad's , Nan's & grandads, husbands &...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Ballad Of The Heather Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Outwitting maids and wives, Take joy of the red heather And love and our two...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Boston Ballad, 1854 Walt Whitman	Here gape your great grand-sons--their wives gaze at them from the windows, See how well dress'd--see how orderly they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Brisbane Reverie James Brunton Stephens	We have dashing wives who wear their living husbands' joints instead— Yea, their vitals, for embellishment of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Castaway Augusta Davies Webster	The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Crowded Trolley-Car Elinor Morton Wylie	Fingers tangle, Bluebeard's wives Dangle by the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Florentine Tragedy - A Fragment Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde	And prentices are unskilful, and wives even Lack sense and cunning, though Bianca here Has brought me a rich customer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Good Servant Richard Newton Sherrer	Have nothing to do with the tales, Old wives fables are irreverent; Keep on the straight and narrow trails, Only things that are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Last Confession Dante Gabriel Rossetti	By Austrians armed; and women that I knew For wives and mothers walked the public street, Saying aloud that if their husbands feared To snatch...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter To Sir George Etherege. John Dryden	And young in love-affairs of state; And both to wives and husbands show The vigour of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Married Coquette Ella Wheeler Wilcox	As Christian women and spotless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Message to America Alan Seeger	And robbed their holdings and raped their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A New Song Of The Spring Gardens. Henry Austin Dobson	Come hither, ye husbands, and look to your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A new year'S gift,sent to sir simeon steward Robert Herrick	Of ash-heaps, in the which ye use Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse; Of crackling laurel, which fore-sounds A plenteous harvest to your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Plea For Their Sanity Elijah Kampsen	Their wives in wait, the daytraders set sail at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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