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Ode XVIII: To The Right Honourable Francis Earl Of Huntington Mark Akenside	And lent the imperial ruffian...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Of Coarse Fools Sebastian Brant	Ruffian now holds sway, Men celebrate him much today And honour him in every place With words and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Dante's Monument, 1818 Count Giacomo Leopardi	Italian wives didst not behold By ruffian troops embraced; Nor cities plundered, fields laid waste By hostile spear, and foreign rage;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Once There Was You and I Flo Estrada	A ruffian who manipulates and controls a farm The roses you utter disgust, its values premium Dating is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peek-A-Boo Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Thief and robber and ruffian bold, The crazy tramp and the drunkard...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Reminiscences James McIntyre	Had, at midnight's awful hour, With ruffian hand, blown up the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Shelley’s Death Alfred Austin	Of the dagger drawn in dark, Should by the ruffian's stroke be ravished from the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Size and Tears Lewis Carroll	I answer "If that ruffian Jones Should recognise me here, He'd bellow out my name in tones Offensive to the ear: He...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet VII: Love in a Humour Michael Drayton	Straightways he plays a swaggering ruffian's part, And at the banquet in his drunkenness Slew his dear friend, my kind and truest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnets of the Empire: Hawk Archibald Thomas Strong	Rotted thy ruffian crews that need had prest, And all thy keels were clogged with foul decay, Yet through...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
South Wind Siegfried Sassoon	Your ruffian haste shook the young, blossoming orchards; You clapped rude hands, hallooing round the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stanzas for the Times John Greenleaf Whittier	Shall ruffian threats of cord and steel, The dungeon's gloom, the assassin's blow, Turn back the spirit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Barbarous Chief Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Where the lordly Brain has sway; But the border ruffian is near at hand, Be on your guard, I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Conference. Charles Churchill	Or trembling at the ruffian hand of Force, Law hath suspended stood, or changed its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Death of Parson Caldwell's Wife Mercy Warren	Caldwell himself by some ruffian...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Duellist - Book I Charles Churchill	ruffian knife Is drawn against thy neighbour's life, And never scruples to descend Into the bosom of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Emigrants: Book II Charlotte Smith	Reason would raise to Liberty, destroy'd By ruffian hands; while, on the ruin'd mass, Flush'd with hot blood, the Fiend of Discord sits In...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Four Seasons : Spring James Thomson	Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts: His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill, The shatter'd forest, and the ravaged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Grateful Snake William Hayley	A hunter's javelin in his hand, He scorn'd the ruffian's base demand, And made the wretch recoil; But numbers from a thicket spring, The youth they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Nithsdale Widow and Her Son William Topaz McGonagall	Not satisfied with this the merciless ruffian leaped the little garden wall, And with his horse trod down everything, the poor widow's all,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Outlaw Charles Kingsley	Nor I wadna be a soldier, mither, to dice wi' ruffian bands, Pining weary months in castles, looking over wasted...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prisoner For Debt John Greenleaf Whittier	Whene'er that ruffian's tossing limb, Crimson with murder, touches...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Romance Of The Knight Thomas Chatterton	A weeping damsel bending on her knees: A ruffian knight would force her to the ground, But still some small resisting strength she...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Tower William Butler Yeats	And when that ancient ruffian's turn was on He so bewitched the cards under his thumb That all but the one card became A pack...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Traveller George Moses Horton	When pealing thunders roll, And ruffian winds howl, threat'ning life with gloom, To Heaven's kind hand I then commit the whole, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)