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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)
It is not Always May Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Spanish...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Keep the Faith Rick Wojtala	A Polish proverb, Money is a bad...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Marvellous Martin Charles Harpur	Which (says the proverb ) makes us wond'rous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Masnawi Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi	Rumi recommended the proverb that the moral way is not to find fault with others but to be admonished by their bad...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Michael: A Pastoral Poem William Wordsworth	I may truly say, That they were as a proverb in the vale For endless...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
MODIFIED ALIAS Nzuzo Nkosi	A cogent proverb I'm aligned with the equator A varmint of an alpha resurging a vigorous grunt to his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
No Mercy Richard Groff	destruction in his hand But a proverb a day drives the fool away Don’t let him destroy your land The fool here I say that can get...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Fame John Keats	II. "You cannot eat your cake and have it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Stephen Duck, the Thresher, and Favourite Poet. A Quibbl Jonathan Swift	The Proverb says; No Fence against a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Personal Responsibility Richard Newton Sherrer	A proverb concerning the land; For the sour grapes you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Protogenes And Apelles Matthew Prior	Says the old proverb and safe...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Psalm 31 part 2 Isaac Watts	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Slim Picking Abraham de la Torre	effortlessly, you are lighter than a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet VII George Gascoigne	With Nevil then I find this proverb true, That Haste makes waste, and therefore still I say, No haste but good, where wisdom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERSITY Badal Pal	An old proverb says ‘You reap what you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Interlude VI. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The Theologian gravely said: 'The Spanish proverb, then, is right; Consult your friends on what you do, And one will say that it is white,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. Interlude IV. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Sayeth some proverb old and wise; And Love is master of all arts, And puts it into human hearts The strangest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
That V.C. Andrew Barton Paterson	He proved the good old proverb sound -- An army travels on its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bagman's Dog: Mr. Peters's Story Richard Harris Barham	But we all have been told By the proverb of old, By no means to think 'all that glitters is gold;' And, in fact, some advance That...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Borough. Letter XIX: The Parish-Clerk George Crabbe	A foolish proverb says, 'the devil's at home;' But he is there, and tempts in every room: Men feel, they know...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Chronicles of Solomon Gregg Fikes	Proverbs and parables, Food for intellectual...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cock and The Fox Robert Henryson	The proverb sayis, 'Als gude lufe cummis as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Cook's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer	Upon a day when he his paper sought, Of a proverb, that saith this same word; Better is rotten apple out of hoard, Than that it should rot all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)