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A Black Job. Thomas Hood	Reading a well-known proverb much amiss - To wash and whiten...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Change O' Deils Violet Jacob	" - Scots...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dalesman's Litany Frederic William Moorman	A Yorkshire...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable For Critics James Russell Lowell	But, alas, she is dumb, and the proverb holds good, She never will cry till she's out of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lay of St. Gengulphus Richard Harris Barham	Says the proverb: that is, 'take the Fair unawares;' A maid, o'er the banisters chancing to peep, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Meditation on Discipleship Karl Constantine FOLKES	In the book of Proverbs we read that parents are asked to rear or train up children in the way they should be...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Miller, His Son, And Their Ass Anne Kingsmill Finch	The Proverb right, the Cart before the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Singing Lesson Algernon Charles Swinburne	Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses, Is good, or was held so, for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Walts With a Tear in It Boris Pasternak	Others may fear proverb s-this one does...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wet Era Mr. Vedant Srivastava	In the dark, I proverb a female bird, Different and dark it was like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Abide and Abide and Better Abide Sir Thomas Wyatt	And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to me doth say, "Let me alone and I will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Evening in Dandaloo Andrew Barton Paterson	It's a proverb now, or near it -- At the races you can hear it, At the dog-fights,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Apathy and Enthusiasm. Herman Melville	And re called the forest proverb, The Iroquois' old saw: Grief to every graybeard When young Indians lead the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Apollo Laughs Katharine Lee Bates	'APOLLO laughs,' the proverb tells, Far echo of old oracles, A Delphic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beginning Knowledge Richard Newton Sherrer	To understand of a proverb, The words of the wise to spread out; Interpretation of the Word, Gives wisdom for leaving...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beppo, A Venetian Story George Gordon Lord Byron	According to the proverb,--although No man If foreign is obliged to fast, and you-- If Protestant, or sickly--or a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 67 Sa di	those who follow them can use the event as a proverb, like thieves who shorten their hands, lest their hands be cut...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dark Starlight Sunshine Patrick Valance	Echo's through the breeze entertains proverb Whispering softly in the timeline of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto The Seventh George Gordon Lord Byron	Newton (that proverb of the mind),...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hermann And Dorothea - III. Thalia Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Once for all there's truth in the ancient proverb which tells us: He who moves not forward, goes...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn XVII: Jesus, From Whom All Blessings Grow John Wesley	Mighty their envious foes to move, A proverb of reproach - and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn XVII: Jesus, From Whom All Blessings Grow Charles Wesley	Mighty their envious foes to move, A proverb of reproach - and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Abide and Abide and Better Abide David McKee Wright	And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to me doth say, 'Let me alone and I will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Abide and Abide and Better Abide Sir Thomas Wyatt	And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to me doth say, 'Let me alone and I will...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I Have Questions Ruth Mahogany Utsu	I recall an advice an old proverb once passed, 'Neither give salt or counsel until you are being...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)