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Elegy XVI. He Suggests the Advantage of Birth To a Person of Merit
William Shenstone
When genius, graced with lineal splendour, glows,
When title shines, with ambient virtues crown'd,
Like some fair almond's flowery pomp it shows,
The...
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For Merit
Ambrose Bierce
To Parmentier Parisians raise
A statue fine and large:
He cooked potatoes fifty ways,
Nor ever led a...
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Jew beyond merit
Heather Lydia Thornhill
What the mother did was but to live
She touched your tongue and spoke your life
Her old eyes saw more than the blind
At solutions cost
With a...
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Occasion'd By Seeing The Honourable --- Treat A Person Of Merit With Insolence
Mary Barber
I look with Pity on the Great;
Who only Birth, or Wealth, respect,
And treat true Merit with...
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Order of merit
K.V Srikanth
Name remembered
Face recognized
Act Immitated
Fact Ignored

Entry for education
Deer in a birds Nest
Education opens doors
Institutions closes...
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The Reward of Merit
William Schwenck Gilbert
DR. BELVILLE was regarded as the CRICHTON of his age:
His tragedies were reckoned much too thoughtful for the stage;
His poems held a noble rank,...
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This Merit hath the worst
Emily Dickinson
This Merit hath the worst—
It cannot be again—
When Fate hath taunted last
And thrown Her furthest...
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Let’s include Sasenarine Persaud as a poet of some merit
Doug Blair
Egret


The bird was just searching
for food not metaphors –
or taking rest from a day’s flight

It was dusk after all and its ancestors
who...
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