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The Fortune-Favored Friedrich Schiller	Achaia boasts, No less the glory of the Dorian lord That Vulcan wrought for him the shield and sword--...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Glowworm William Cowper	Since such a reptile has its gem, And boasts its splendour,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hammers Amy Lowell	He boasts magnificently, with his mouth full of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The King's Task Rudyard Kipling	Shame and wrath had the Saxons because of their boasts of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The land of the free Margaret Ann Lewis	In a land that boasts about the freedom it gives One wonders how...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lost Leader Robert Browning	Deeds will be done,---while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire: Blot out his name, then,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pastoral, The Elegy, The Ode, And The Epigram Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux	And boasts from Phyllis to surprise a kiss, When gently she resists with feigned remorse, That what...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Patriot Engineer George Meredith	The mountains Britain boasts are men: And scale you them, my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Question to Lisetta Matthew Prior	But her who joys the gift to take, And boasts she wears it for my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Reverend Dr. L---. Mary Barber	'Tis said, Hibernia boasts a Flood, Famous for petrefying Wood: Tunbridge, thy Min'ral Streams, we know, A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The River Note Ralph Waldo Emerson	That holds and boasts the immeasurable...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The School-mistress. In Imitation of Spenser (excerpt) William Shenstone	Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Temple of Friendship Voltaire	Nor Tripod boasts, nor priests with truth inspired; She miracles but seldom can effect, No popish saint e'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Third Epigram Anne Killigrew	Posthumus boasts he does not Thunder fear, And for this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Tortoise and the Coat Jane Lomas	large brown coat I need it to keep me warm he boasts The goat shook his head and said “Try mother hen or the Billy goat maybe they have seen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Town Karnteel James Whitcomb Riley	It stands above the need av love That boasts in voice...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Walk Friedrich Schiller	And the valley so bright boasts of its industry...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Young Princess -- A Ballad Of Old Laws Of Love George Meredith	I die, whose love is late avowed, He lives, who boasts the lily has bowed To the oath of a bended...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel Alfred Austin	Yet he who boasts his birthplace yonder lies, Owns in his heart a mood akin to scorn For sensuous slopes that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Beautiful Woman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	That not contemns, nor boasts, nor is ashamed, But lifts its face up prayerfully to heaven,-- 'Thou who hast made me, make...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Young Lady John Trumbull	Not spread triumphal o'er the plain, The rainbow boasts so fair a train, Nor e'en the morning sun so bright, Who robes his face in heav'nly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa. (Translated From Milton) William Cowper	Who, singing, to the nymphs, Adonis' praise, Boasts thee the patron of his copious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Mr. Addison on His Tragedy of Cato Thomas Tickell	France boasts no more, but, fearful to engage, Now first pays homage to her rival's stage, Hastes to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Mr. Dryden Joseph Addison	And England boasts of riches not her own; Thy lines have heighten'd Virgil's majesty, And Horace wonders at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To My Father (Translated From Milton) William Cowper	That Gallia boasts, those too with which the smooth Italian his degentrate speech adorns, That witnesses his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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