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The God Who Waits Leslie Coulson	He shone in simple, homely deed; They prayed to Him to raise their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Grave (excerpt) Robert Blair	That tell in homely phrase who lie...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Graveyard By The Sea Paul Valery	-- their homely turns of speech, The personal grace, the soul informing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Gumsucker's Dirge Joseph Furphy	the rooster tears his throat, to announce with homely note, That there is no Up the Country for us...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hind And The Panther, A Poem In Three Parts : Part III. John Dryden	And Mother Hubbard, in her homely dress, Has sharply blamed a British lioness; That queen, whose feast the factious rabble...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Iron Wedding Rings Henry Lawson	And the homely wives of Buckland gave their wedding rings of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The King's Tragedy James I. Of Scots.—20th February 1437 Dante Gabriel Rossetti	” And oft along the way When she saw the homely lovers pass She has said, “Alack the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Last Meeting Siegfried Sassoon	Children at table; simple, homely wives; Strong, grizzled men; and soldiers back from war, Scaring the gaping elders with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Longest Day William Wordsworth	From the truths of homely reason, Might exalt the loveliest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lord of the Isles: Canto I. Sir Walter Scott	Scarce with the cushat's homely song can vie, Though faint its beauties as the tints remote That gleam through mist in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mary (A Sea-Side Sketch) Thomas Hood	These made him dote Upon the homely beauties of his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (excerpts) James Beattie	Right glad of heart, though homely in array; His waving locks and beard all hoary grey: And, from his bending shoulder, decent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Minstrel; Or, The Progress Of Genius : Book I. James Beattie	Right glad of heart, though homely in array; His waving locks and beard all hoary grey: And, from his bending shoulder, decent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nevers of Poetry Charles Harpur	Never reject a homely-sounding phrase, That your whole meaning easily conveys, For one made current by some...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Night Ada Cambridge	We must fare forth, unsped, From homely board and bed; We must set sail for port unknown, On an uncharted course,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Soldier Katharine Tynan	'My boys,' he greets them: and heaven is homely, He their great captain in days gone o'er; Dear is the friend's face, honest and comely,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Trundle-Bed James Whitcomb Riley	The quaint, homely couch, hidden close from the light, But daintily drawn from its hiding at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The One-Legged Man Siegfried Sassoon	A homely, tangled hedge, a corn-stalked field, And sound of barking dogs and farmyard...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pastor's Reverie Washington Gladden	And joins in the homely chat; He stands in the shop of the artisan; He sits, where the Master sat, At the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Patient Countess. - extracted from Albion's England William Warner	Yet fals he to their homely fare and held him at a feast; But as his hunger slaked, so an amorous heat...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pennsylvania Pilgrim John Greenleaf Whittier	Simply, as fits my theme, in homely rhyme I sing the blue-eyed German Spener taught, Through whose veiled, mystic faith the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Poet And His Book Edna St. Vincent Millay	Some forgotten, quaint and homely Vehicle of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Primrose of the Rock William Wordsworth	A Rock there is whose homely front The passing traveller slights;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Queen of Bloom Kenneth Chance	to an absent spot To a young girl in an often-homely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Redeemer Siegfried Sassoon	Good days of work and sport and homely song; Now he has learned that nights are very long, And dawn a watching of the windowed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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