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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...	478 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...	465 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...	378 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 ...	374 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...	367 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...	350 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...	349 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...	330 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...	318 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...	305 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...	294 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 ...	273 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,...	272 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...	263 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...	238 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...	222 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...	216 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...	208 views Rate it
REDACTED — Hubbs	Mad gents are party to a rubescent glow on the horizon… sanguine in success Nothing unscathed or standing infers no survivors could possibly be left In ...	208 views Rate it
O D E, To a Lady on the Death of Colonel R O S S in the action of Fontenoy — William Taylor Collins	1. W H I L E, lost to all his former Mirth, Britannia's Genius bends to Earth, And mourns the fatal Day: While stain's with Blood he strives to ...	207 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 ...	206 views Rate it
Orphaned Silent — Kurt Philip Behm	You hear the words calling, but what if they stop What if the voice changes to cold what was hot And it’s not yours at all but a squatter that h...	205 views Rate it
Ultima Thule: From My Arm-Chair — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Am I a king, that I should call my own This splendid ebon throne? Or by what reason, or what right divine, Can I proclaim it mine? Only, perhaps, by r...	197 views Rate it
Holy Willie's Prayer — Robert Burns	'And send the godly in a pet to pray.' - Pope O Thou, that in the heavens does dwell, Wha, as it pleases best Thysel', Sends ane to heaven an' ten ...	194 views Rate it
Ganderfeather's Gift — Eugene Field	I was just a little thing When a fairy came and kissed me; Floating in upon the light Of a haunted summer night, Lo, the fairies came to sing Pretty ...	190 views Rate it

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