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A child’s eyes — Daves Gal Always ♥️	Before my eyes ever opened, I remember the first thing I ever saw, I visualised my mothers face, Before I was even born, I felt her every heartbeat, I...	14 views Rate it
A Child’s Smile — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	A CHILD'S smile--nothing more; Quiet, and soft, and grave, and seldom seen; Like summer lightning o'er, Leaving the little face again...	92 views Rate it
A Child’s Treasures — Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	Thou art home at last, my darling one, Flushed and tired with thy play, From morning dawn until setting sun Hast thou been at sport away; And thy steps...	81 views Rate it
A Christmas Carol — Algernon Charles Swinburne	THREE DAMSELS in the queen’s chamber, The queen’s mouth was most fair; She spake a word of God’s mother As the combs went in her hair. Mary that is of...	145 views Rate it
A Christmas Carol — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik	TUNE--'God rest ye, merry...	50 views Rate it
A Christmas Carol — George Wither	So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth...	97 views Rate it
A Christmas Carol — Gilbert Keith Chesterton	The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all...	1,082 views Rate it
A Christmas Carol — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	I. The shepherds went their hasty way, And found the lowly stable-shed Where the Virgin-Mother lay: And now they checked their eager tread, For to the...	236 views Rate it
A Christmas Carol For 1862 — George MacDonald	THE YEAR OF THE TROUBLE IN LANCASHIRE. The skies are pale, the trees are stiff, The earth is dull and old; The frost is glittering as if The very sun...	16 views Rate it
A Christmas Colloquy — John Crowe Ransom	THE country farmer has his joys Of little city girls and boys When brother Thomas brings his brood Of motherless brats in Christmas mood To try our...	104 views Rate it
A Christmas Eve — Victor James Daley	GOOD fellows are laughing and drinking (To-night no heart should grieve), But I am of old days thinking, Alone, on Christmas Eve. Old memories fast...	119 views Rate it
A Christmas Hymn — John Charles McNeill	Near where the shepherds watched by night And heard the angels o'er them, The wise men saw the starry light Stand still at last before them. No armored...	10 views Rate it
A Christmas Letter From Australia — Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen	’T IS Christmas, and the North wind blows; ’t was two years yesterday Since from the Lusitania’s bows I looked o’er Table Bay, A tripper round the...	36 views Rate it
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE — RITA JURASIC	A BEAUTIFUL BABY BOY WAS BORN ON A PEACEFUL NIGHT TO BRING LOVE INTO THE WORLD FOR HUMANITY TO LEARN HOW MUCH OUR CREATOR LOVES US ALSO TO TEACH US...	14 views Rate it
A Christmas Prayer — George MacDonald	Loving looks the large-eyed cow, Loving stares the long-eared ass At Heaven's glory in the grass! Child, with added human birth Come to bring the child of...	18 views Rate it
A Christmas Prayer (from the trenches) — Cyril Winterbotham	Not yet for us may Christmas bring Good-will to men, and peace; In our dark sky no angels sing, Not yet the great release For men, when war shall...	112 views Rate it
A Christmas Reverie — Christen Kuikoua	In Christmas's glow, where dreams and joy entwine, A tale unfolds, of Christ's birth divine. In Bethlehem's cradle, a babe so mild, The Savior,...	24 views Rate it
A Christmas Tree — James McIntyre	To night the children meet with glee To view the fruits on Christmas Tree, And when its beauties we behold We're very sorry we are old. The children all...	82 views Rate it
A classic — Supporting a friend!	Roses are red Violets are blue I don’t know the rest sooooo yeah...	4 views Rate it
A Code of Morals — Rudyard Kipling	Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, To sit on a rock with a...	404 views Rate it
A Comedy — Edith Nesbit	MADAM, you bade me act a part, A comedy of your devising-- Forbade me to consult my heart, To be sincere--or...	106 views Rate it
A Community Of Friends — Kurt Philip Behm	There once was a time when women could cook and men knew how to dance Education was by the book no fuzzy math or creative...	113 views Rate it
a compelling 'A!' — Muzz	Across the depths of the vast internet sea, I stumbled upon a voice so sweet, so free. A woman with grace and an angel's song, Her laughter a melody...	1 view Rate it
A Complete 100 Floors — Nikhil Parekh	Scores of squeals inundated the atmosphere; clusters of people hugged each other close in utter...	18 views Rate it
A Conference, Between Sir Harry Pierce's Chariot, And Mrs. D. Stopford's Chair — Jonathan Swift	CHARIOT My pretty dear Cuz, tho' I've roved the town o'er, To dispatch in an hour some visits a score; Though, since first on the wheels, I've been...	8 views Rate it

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