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THE FEW I QUESTION Norbert Tasev	happened can only be justified by one more proverb: the asceticism of which the mud-landed nobody-mindedness of the giver is like a drunkard -...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Headless Trooper James Brunton Stephens	And called myself a fool; But still the proverb racked my soul, “Exceptions prove the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Lord of the Isles: Canto III. Sir Walter Scott	But well our mountain proverb shows The faith of Islesmen ebbs and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part I Mathilde Blind	' Gaelic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Romance of Britomarte Adam Lindsay Gordon	There was then this proverb us twain between, For the glory of God and of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Water-Fiends. George Colman	And hence the proverb rose, that Truth Lies in the bottom of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Thyrsus David Plantinga	A proverb soothes the quondam king And the dowager, “He frightens you, But moderation in each thing, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tie the Knot Tightly Henry Clay Work	There's a proverb, you know--"two strings to one beau;" So, suppose we try a double...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A World-Reformer Friedrich Schiller	Trust the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To the United States Senate Vachel Lindsay	Be the world's proverb of successful shame, Dazzling all State house flies that steal and steal, Who, when the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Two Sonnets On Fame John Keats	II. 'You cannot eat your cake and have it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Westward Ho! Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant	'Twas a proverb on the Darling, the truth of which I hold: "That mutton's aye the sweetest which was never...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Words William Charles Wentworth	A simple proverb tagged with rhyme May colour half the course of time; The pregnant saying of a sage ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Words Charles Harpur	A simple proverb tagged with rhyme May colour half the course of time; The pregnant saying of a sage ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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