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Mart. Epi. XLIII. Lib. I. Richard Lovelace	Go now, deny me steel, officious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Megathrust Wesley Morin	Take cover, 'cause here comes the Big One, officious f*cks From social structure to moral thought Everything's gotta be redone from the bottom up...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode VI: Hymn To Cheerfulness Mark Akenside	Which parents waste on thankless heirs: The officious daughters pleas'd attend; The brother adds the name of friend: By thee with flowers their board...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Old heltberg Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	'Prelims,' theologs, with their preaching officious; -Cadets that in arm or in leg had a hurt; -Peasants late in learning but now in for a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Death Of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser In Physic Samuel Johnson	See Levet to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Paradise Lost: Book 08 John Milton	Yet not to Earth are those bright luminaries Officious; but to thee, Earth's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Paradise Lost: Book 09 John Milton	That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Light above...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sent To Mr. Haley, On Reading His Epistles On Epic Poetry Henry James Pye	Attempts, perhaps with too officious zeal, Thy thoughts awhile from higher cares to steal, And in presumptuous numbers dares essay...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet X. To Mrs. G Charlotte Smith	will Mem'ry with officious care The long lost visions of my days...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sussex Rudyard Kipling	Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff edge As when...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Dean’s Reasons For Not Building At Drapier’s-Hill Jonathan Swift	Those thankless and officious cares I used to take in friends' affairs, From which I never could refrain, And have been...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Equilibrists John Crowe Ransom	Grey doves from the officious tower...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Fan : A Poem. Book II. John Gay	With her loose robe officious Zephyrs play, And strow with odoriferous flowers the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Manners - An O D E William Taylor Collins	Till meddling Art's officious Lore, Reverse the lessons taught before, Alluring [him] from a safer Rule, To dream in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Mower to the Glow-Worms Andrew Marvell	Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame To wand'ring mowers shows the way, That in the night have lost their aim, And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Upon the Kings happy return from Scotland Henry King	Else our love Will meerly an officious trouble...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Written In Very Early Youth William Wordsworth	me to myself, nor let me feel The officious touch that makes me droop...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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