Poems with rhymes of pretend

It all has an end
Its truth lost in winning
Its game of pretend

Betray your credo or pretend,
But be alive-this only matters-
Alive and burning to the end.

"This is the man did once pretend
God was his Father and his Friend

To them, in him, because his favours bend
To virtue, to the which they all pretend ?

And some of the bigger bears try to pretend
That they came round the corner to look for a friend;

You boldly show that skill which they pretend,
And work by means as noble as your end;

For once, good souls, we'll not pretend
To be aught better than her who bore us,
And is our only visible friend.

Should I pass you, I pretend
To ignore my winter's friend;

I am alone and need no more pretend
Laughter or smile to hide a hungry heart;
I walk with solitude as with a friend

It is but cowardice to pretend.
Cover with ashes our love's cold crater-
Always I've known that it had to end

Wonders that they of all men should pretend
To birth and blood, and for a name contend.

What peace can be, where both to one pretend?
Or if a peace, it soon must have an end;

'Twere folly to pretend
I never begged before;
Or if thou now befriend,

Then through the hot and sultry day he plays at "make-pretend,"
The alley is a sandy beach where all the rich folks send

The Gospel--Rule defective you pretend,
When you the social Duties recommend;

With various fond attentions, to pretend,
He loves me--much beyond a common friend.

As dumb as I pretend;
But happiness, I dimly guess,
Is what counts in the end.

This time of day I can't pretend
With slight, sweet things to satiate
The hunger-cravings. Nay, my friend,

No knave but boldly will pretend
The requisites that form a friend,

To fame as lasting as the earth pretend,
But not hereafter to the name of friend!