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When the food is busting — Will Woj	If thy food is busting Thy hips shall be thrusting Look at me and you shall see How good thy food will be Your food is not busting It be quiet disgustin...	757 views Rate it
The Mermaid — Anne Bannerman	When, at last, they retired to rest, Ajut went down to the beach, where finding a fishing-boat, she entered it without hesitation, and, telling those, w...	592 views Rate it
He put the Belt around my life — Emily Dickinson	He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap— And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up— Deliberate, as a Duke would do A Kingdom's Ti...	477 views Rate it
The Gardener XLV: To the Guests — Rabindranath Tagore	To the guests that must go bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. Take to your bosom with a smile what is easy and simple and nea...	379 views Rate it
The Christmas Gift — Liam Ó Comáin	in mystical silence lights flick on to bicycles and board games dolls and other toys brought by father christmas to joyful girls and boys the time for ...	375 views Rate it
The Morning after Woe — Emily Dickinson	The Morning after Woe— 'Tis frequently the Way— Surpasses all that rose before— For utter Jubilee— As Nature did not care— And piled her Blossoms on— A...	373 views Rate it
Maud Muller — John Greenleaf Whittier	Maud Muller on a summer's day Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health. Singing,...	369 views Rate it
To ----, With A Rose — Sidney Lanier	I asked my heart to say Some word whose worth my love's devoir might pay Upon my Lady's natal day. Then said my heart to me: `Learn from th...	360 views Rate it
A Bad Night — Ambrose Bierce	DRAMATIS PERSONAE. VILLIAM _a Sen_ NEEDLESON _a Sidniduc_ SMILER _a Scheister_ KI-YI _a Trader_ GRIMGHAST _a Spader_ SARALTHIA _a Love-lorn Nymph_ NELL...	359 views Rate it
The Ballad Of East And West — Rudyard Kipling	Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there...	356 views Rate it
Sport — Abraham Cowley	The merry waves dance up and down, and play, Sport is granted to the sea; Birds are the choristers of the empty air, Sport is never wanting there. The g...	353 views Rate it
Eating Alone — Sonia Walker	Eating alone puts me in a self-conscious mood, every bite I take, every spill I make, feeling hundreds of eyes staring at my attempts to appear as if m...	324 views Rate it
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey — William Wordsworth	Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a s...	312 views Rate it
M'Fingal - Canto I — John Trumbull	When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new manoeuvres of parade, The true ...	281 views Rate it
The Bells — Edgar Allan Poe	I Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they t...	280 views Rate it
L'Allegro — John Milton	HENCE, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, a...	268 views Rate it
Love of money as a universal sins — Astghick Moradkhanians	According to godly woman;(Ms.Varvara)by enjoying God's given free beautiful Nature as your own wealth!by helping others in need! you will restore heave...	260 views Rate it
Yankee Doodle — Vachel Lindsay	This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more...	245 views Rate it
The May Magnificat — Gerard Manley Hopkins	May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season- Candlemas, Lady Day; But the Lady Month, May...	235 views Rate it
EXTRAORDINARY YOU — Extraordinary You	Remarkable you; Almighty & Uplifting even as I walk the plank, I start to Think, oh Mercy & Grace I Need to Give Thanks, Marvelous you, I Marvel...	227 views Rate it
The Gentlest Lady — Dorothy Parker	They say He was a serious child, And quiet in His ways; They say the gentlest lady smiled To hear the neighbors' praise. The coffers of her heart would...	224 views Rate it
J--K. Huysmans — Amy Lowell	A flickering glimmer through a window-pane, A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass, Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet Across uneven...	224 views Rate it
LIFE — Robert Randle	Life is SWEET. Life is hard. Life is cold. No sorry excuses for failure. Nobody owns you nothing today. Stop confining yourself to a narrow world. Yo...	222 views Rate it
16. Of Gluttony and Feasting — Sebastian Brant	He shows a fool in every wise Who day and night forever hies From feast to feat to fill his paunch And make his figure round and staunch, As though his ...	210 views Rate it
M'Fingal - Canto II — John Trumbull	The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, Lash'd on his downward car of state. And now exp...	209 views Rate it

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