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Allegory Thomas Hood	I had a gig-horse, and I called him Pleasure Because on Sundays for a little jaunt He was so fast and showy, quite a treasure; Although he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Allegory Charles Baudelaire	Picture a beauty, shoulders rich and fine, Letting her long hair trail into her wine. Talons of love, the poison tooth of sin Slip and are dulled...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Allegory William George Inge	An old table stands in my study. It used to grace my mother's drawing room, A hand-me-down from Victorian days. It looks its age, the varnish...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Short Allegory of Disguise Mohit Singh	In the cradle of cosmic uncertainties I try fathoming the connotation of life Truth to be told, I lie beneath the abyss of infinite Mere thinking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Allegory: A Moral Vehicle Thomas Hood	I had a gig-horse, and I called him Pleasure Because on Sundays for a little jaunt He was so fast and showy, quite a treasure; Although he...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Allegory Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	The fight was over, and the battle won A soldier, who beneath his chieftain’s eye Had done a might deed and done it well, And done it as the world...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Allegory Percy Bysshe Shelley	I. A portal as of shadowy adamant Stands yawning on the highway of the life Which we all tread, a cavern huge and gaunt; Around it rages an unceasing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Allegory Of Two Aspects Ehsan Sehgal	When the peacock dances In a wave of pride and happiness On its beauty During the dance When it looks at its ugly paws It stops dancing suddenly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Allegory On Man Thomas Parnell	A thoughtful Being, long and spare, Our Race of Mortals call him Care: (Were Homer living, well he knew What Name the Gods have call'd him too) With...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Bees: An Allegory Helen Hunt Jackson	"O bees, sweet bees!" I said, "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles. Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells." ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XXVIII: You That With Allegory's Curious Frame Sir Philip Sidney	You that with allegory's curious frame, Of others' children changelings use to make, With me those pains for God's sake do not take: I list not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Bushfire - an Allegory Andrew Barton Paterson	'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never failed them yet -- They carry many...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Pang More Sharp Than All. An Allegory Samuel Taylor Coleridge	I. He too has flitted from his secret nest, Hope's last and dearest child without a name!-- Has flitted from me, like the warmthless flame, That...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Two Spirits: An Allegory Percy Bysshe Shelley	FIRST SPIRIT O thou, who plum'd with strong desire Wouldst float above the earth, beware! A Shadow tracks thy flight of fire-- ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Allegory of the Moon Matthew Chamberlin	You're there when the light goes out Can you see me? I know you are there even when the sky isn't clear When I am lost, I keep you near The dark...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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