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Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 43 Sa di	’ He remarked: ‘This base wretch is able to lift a thousand mann of stones and has not the power to bear one...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 45 Sa di	And going to the bridegroom asked him: ‘O mean wretch, what teeth are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 21 Sa di	‘Learn not the tale of love from the wretch Who forgets his beloved in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 07 Sa di	If thou associatest and art friendly with a wretch He will commit sin with thy wealth and make thee his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chaff and Ballast David Plantinga	And let dire punishment consume A wretch who teeters on the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chant d'automne (Song Of Autumn) Charles Baudelaire	A thankless wretch, Lover or sister, be Ephemeral sweetness of the suns that perish Or glory of the autumn swift...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Charity William Cowper	He spurn’d the wretch that slighted or withstood The tender argument of kindred blood; Nor would endure that any...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
City Contrasts Anonymous Americas	Pompous of place and power, And the shivering wretch his word will doom To prison within an hour; The miser clutching his pennies, The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Come Girl, And Embrace Frank James Prewett	Come girl, and embrace; Nay, cry not, poor wretch, nor plead, But haste, for life strikes a swift pace, And I burn with envious greed: Know you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Complaint of a dying lover Henry Howard	man,' quoth he ; 'come, death, and rid this woe ; A just reward, a happy end, if it may...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Crispus Attucks John Boyle O'Reilly	The slave is the wretch who wields the lash, and not the man in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Culture and Cops Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	'There is a wretch without my house Who bodes my treasure harm'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cupid Abroad Was Lated Robert Greene	But what I drad did me, poor wretch, betide, For forth he drew an arrow from his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Death Percy Bysshe Shelley	Fond wretch, all...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Death John Clare	Where the poor suffering wretch bows down To laws a lawless power hath passed; And pride, and power, and king, and clown Shall...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Death And The Unfortunate. Jean de La Fontaine	"Make me the poorest wretch that begs, Sore, hungry, crippled, clothed in rags, In hopeless impotence of arms and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Death And The Woodman. Jean de La Fontaine	What poorer wretch upon this rolling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Democritus And Heraclitus Matthew Prior	Sad Heraclitus, serious wretch, return, In louder grief our greater crimes to mourn, Between you both I unconcern'd stand...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Despondency Anne Brontë	And hear a wretch's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Detail of Long Narrative Kaleb Alexander Suedfeld	Only devils speak, To wretched men from whom they’ve purchased...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dregs David Plantinga	A wretch, I shouldn’t curse that day And my accession to this world Has scorched the calendar,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Earth And Man George Meredith	XX...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eclogue II. The Grandmothers Tale. Robert Southey	For tho' poor wretch She was a terrible reprobate and swore Like any trooper, she was always good To the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Edwin And Angela - A Ballad Oliver Goldsmith	But leaves the wretch to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Elegy Charlotte Smith	A wretched maid--the victim of despair, Survey'd the threatening storm and desert...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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