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To Mother Venus Eugene Field	You'll find young Paullus passing fair, Modest, refined, and tony; Go, now, incite the favored...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Mrs. K--, Helen Maria Williams	Allied with tender, modest grace; Of those who, while abroad they roam, Retain each charm that gladdens home, And whose...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To My Mother William Ernest Henley	Walking in maiden wise, Modest and kind and fair, The freshness of spring in her eyes And the fullness of spring in her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Phoebe William Schwenck Gilbert	"GENTLE, modest little flower, Sweet epitome of May, Love me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To primroses filled with morning dew Robert Herrick	Who were but born just as the modest morn Teem'd her refreshing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Robert Burns James Whitcomb Riley	Sae bonnie sweet, and modest too, Thy liltin' filled its wee head fu' O' sic a grace, It aye is weepin' tears o' dew...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Simplicity Mary Darby Robinson	I've mark'd THEE, fairest of the throng, With modest eye and timid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Spring William Blake	Thy golden crown upon her languished head, Whose modest tresses were bound up for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Grasshopper Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Who, upon the trees' tall branches, By a modest draught inspired, Singing, like a monarch...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To the Myrtle Mary Darby Robinson	In modest sweetness drest, Shake off thy pearly tears...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Poet, John Dyer William Wordsworth	A grateful few, shall love thy modest Lay, Long as the shepherd's bleating flock shall stray O'er naked Snowdon's wide aerial...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Rev. J. Gilpin, On His Improved Edition Of The "Pilgrim'S Progress." Patrick Bronte	For dress beseeming modest worth, I would have led our pilgrim...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To The Small Celandine William Wordsworth	Modest, yet withal an Elf Bold, and lavish of thyself; Since we needs must first have met I have...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
told Auburn Meister Barnes	self-sufficient but needy be confident but modest and humble you must be calm but strict and caring but stern don’t listen to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Trespassers Ellis Parker Butler	And gazed in modest Chloe's eye We saw reflected there in part ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
True Diffidence William Schwenck Gilbert	I'm modesty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
True Enjoyment Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Ne'er wanton save when by my side, And modest when the world she sees; That time our glow may never...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Trusted-betrayal Steve Anc	And we think the modest mild they make; But could the mind interpret what eludes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Truth William Cowper	He, Christian-like, retreats with modest mien To the close copse or far sequester’d green, And shines without desiring to be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
UNDER THE CROWD Norbert Tasev	the hasty decrees of his age, like the ever...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon The Death Of, Mr. Addison; Inscrib'd To The Earl Of Warwick Nicholas Amhurst	Yet aw'd by modest dread and cautions Fear, Seldom (too...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow Andrew Marvell	Which in their modest Whispers name Those Acts that swell'd the Cheek of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon The Sight Of A Beautiful Picture Painted By Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart William Wordsworth	Thou, with ambition modest yet sublime, Here, for the sight of mortal man, hast given To one brief moment caught...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Vision of Columbus – Book 3 Joel Barlow	Sublime in modest majesty he rose, With reverence bow'd, conspicuous o'er the rest, Approach'd the throne and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wait till the Majesty of Death Emily Dickinson	A Lord, might dare to lift the Hat To such a Modest Clay Since that My Lord, "the Lord of Lords" Receives...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)