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The Powers Of Love George Moses Horton	Thus did a captured wretch complain, Imploring heaven above, Till one with sympathetic pain, Flew to his arms and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prisoner. A Fragment Emily Jane Brontë	Dost think, fond dreaming wretch, that I shall grant thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall John Greenleaf Whittier	Oh, leave the wretch to his bribes and sins; Let him rot in the web of lies he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Quidnunckis John Gay	Down the swift stream the wretch is borne; Never, ah never, to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rebel's Surrender To Grace (Lord, What Wilt Thou Have Me to Do?) John Newton	All that a wretch could do, I tried, Thy patience scorned, thy pow'r defied, And trampled on thy laws; Scarcely...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Reprieve Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	When to her arms a lonely wretch I go, And she doth ask for him, the true and the brave, While on her cheek faint smiles...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Rose Robert Southey	One man there was, a vain and wretched man, Who saw, desired, despair'd, and hated...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sailor, Who Had Served In The Slave Trade. Robert Southey	O I have done a cursed deed The wretched man replies, And night and day and every where 'Tis still before my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sausage Candidate-A Tale of the Elections Andrew Barton Paterson	I'll bring the wretch to scorn and shame, Unless those darned police are nigh: As sure as Brown's my glorious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Scurril Press Ambrose Bierce	scurvy wretch proceeds To take a fling at _me_, condemn...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Second Nun's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer	Thou comfort of us wretches, do me indite Thy maiden's death, that won through her merite Th' eternal life, and o'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shipman's Tale Thomas Bailey Aldrich	And some pale wretch slid down into the dark With stifled moan, and transient horror seized The rest who...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Slave Dealer Thomas Pringle	"The writhing wretch with furious heel I crushed no mortal nigh; But that same hour her dread appeal Was registered...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Slave's Complaint George Moses Horton	Leave me not a wretch confined, Altogether lame and blind -- Unto gross despair consigned, ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Solitary Percy Bysshe Shelley	As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Spectral Horseman Percy Bysshe Shelley	Of some fevered wretch who courts sleep in vain; Then the tombless ghosts of the guilty dead In horror pause on...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Splendid Shilling John Arthur Phillips	With scanty Offals, and small acid Tiff (Wretched...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Story Of The Royal Huntress. Ramakrishna T	The maid in pity saw his wretched plight, Then from the pitcher took her midday meal, And soon relieved his hunger and his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sun Rising John Donne	Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sweets Of Liberty Anonymous Americas	Is there a wretch so truly low, Can stoop to be a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book III. -- The Garden William Cowper	And verse of mine shall never brand the wretch, Whom matrons now, of character unsmirch’d And chaste themselves, are not ashamed to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) William Cowper	He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book IV. -- The Winter Evening William Cowper	He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Temper George Herbert	Will great God measure with a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Testament of Cressida (excerpt) Robert Henryson	Wrappit in wo, ane wretch full will of wane:" Than swounit scho oft or scho culd refrane, And ever in hir...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)