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Democritus And His Neighbors Anne Kingsmill Finch	Away the Skilful Doctor comes Of Recipes and Med'cines full, To check the giddy Whirl of Nature's Fires, If...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy to the Memory of Richard Boyle, Esq. Mary Darby Robinson	"...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Glossary of terms used in David Rorie's works David Rorie	skeely,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hezekiah Thomas Parnell	A skilful master for the song he chose, The songs were David's these, and Asaph's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn Before Meat (Hymnus Ante Cibum) Aurelius Clemens Prudentius	From the new-made comb is shed: Which the skilful bee imbues With thyme's scent and airy dews, Plying lonely toils...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
John and Freddy William Schwenck Gilbert	Now FREDDY'S graceful ENTRECHATS - Now JOHNNY'S skilful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lady Probationer William Ernest Henley	Quick, skilful, quiet, soft in speech and touch...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lines Written in 1799. Amelia Opie	Now, pleased I mark the painter's skilful line, And now, rejoice the skill I mark is thine: And while I prize the gift by thee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Marmion: Canto 6 (excerpt) Sir Walter Scott	Now drawing back, and now descending, The skilful Marmion well could know, They watch'd the motions of some foe, Who traversed on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Marmion: Canto V. - The Court Sir Walter Scott	Nor less did Marmion's skilful view Glance every line and squadron through; And much he marvelled one small land Could...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Chinee Cook James Brunton Stephens	He is gone, and I am left without my skilful Chinee...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nature And Art. To My Friend Charles Booth Nettleton Paul Laurence Dunbar	Commanded that the skilful wight be brought That she might dower him with lands and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode To Beauty Ralph Waldo Emerson	Hovering over all that live, Quick and skilful to inspire Sweet extravagant desire, Starry space and lily bell Filling with thy roseate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost Andrew Marvell	Jealous I was that some less skilful hand (Such as disquiet alwayes what is well, And by ill imitating would excell) Might...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Building of Springfield Vachel Lindsay	An unseen, skilful, medieval...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper Alexander Pope	So skilful, and those hands so taper; Do something exquisite and wise -' She bow'd, obey'd him, - and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey Abraham Cowley	Whene'er the skilful youth discoursed or writ, Still did the notions throng About his eloquent tongue; ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pau-Puk-Keewis Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Though you think yourself so skilful, I can beat you, Pau-Puk-Keewis, I can even give you lessons In your game of Bowl and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Planh For The Young English King Ezra Pound	O skilful Death and full of bitterness, Well mayst thou boast that thou the best chevalier That any...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Quatrains Ralph Waldo Emerson	I am not wiser for my age, Nor skilful by my grief; Life loiters at the book's first page,--...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Queen Mab: Part VII. Percy Bysshe Shelley	Is Nature's only God; but human pride Is skilful to invent most serious names To hide its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Queries Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Prove to be nothing but skilful...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Riddles By Dr. Swift And His Friends Jonathan Swift	But who thy father, no man knows: Nor can the skilful herald trace The founder of thy ancient race; Whether thy temper, full of fire, Discovers...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto II. John Gay	Nor less the spaniel, skilful to betray, Rewards the fowler with the feather'd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727 Jonathan Swift	Your skilful hand employ'd to save Despairing wretches from the grave; And then supporting with your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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