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Winter-Time — Robert Louis Stevenson	Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets...	224 views Rate it
The Sun Rises, The Sun Sets! — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Life is but a stage. The Academy Awards! Exits,...	223 views Rate it
M'Fingal - Canto III — John Trumbull	Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan of Tory friends. When sudden...	223 views Rate it
War and Exile — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Exile is nice because you get boiled rice. Ackee and salt fish make a good dish. Breadfruit and banana which have iron make you fit to fight a lion....	218 views Rate it
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine — Emily Dickinson	Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my...	218 views Rate it
Music — Aarya Agarwal	Music The mellow sound pleases your ears, With it all its heartfelt cheers. It can lift you up, bring you down Or make you feel like you own the town....	217 views Rate it
the quilter's hand — conductor	Sunflower seeds embroidered And sewn to the ground in rows. of beds of browns and rosy reds. Pinned down by the sun's rays. With warm golden threads...	217 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...	216 views Rate it
The Idle Shepherd Boys — William Wordsworth	The valley rings with mirth and joy; Among the hills the echoes play A never never ending song, To welcome in the May. The magpie chatters with delight;...	215 views Rate it
The Task: Book I. -- The Sofa — William Cowper	I sing the Sofa. I who lately sang Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touched with awe The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand, Escaped with pain from...	215 views Rate it
Properzia Rossi — Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Tell me no more, no more Of my soul's lofty gifts! Are they not vain To quench its haunting thirst for happiness? Have I not lov'd, and striven, and...	214 views Rate it
The White Goddess — Robert Graves	All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean - In scorn of which we sailed to find her In distant regions likeliest to...	213 views Rate it
The wedding on the hill — A J C	The wedding is on the hill. The bridegroom doors are open wide, and I'm the next of kin. I met the guests. The feast is set, and the wedding guests...	211 views Rate it
I am so Honored — Karl Constantine FOLKES	I am so honored. By the company I keep. Birds of a feather. My companions cheer me. Writing their ode in verses. In celebration. Many languages...	211 views Rate it
Something Newsworthy! — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Like a new-born babe Is a Fed-Ex delivery Sent home for...	211 views Rate it
The Bride Of Corinth — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that he From a certain townsman there might claim, As his father's friend, kind...	211 views Rate it
Ode to Aristophanes — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Come Dionysus, let us entertain our frogs as we prepare once more the great descent into our darkened labyrinth. There, our darkness is our light… Not...	209 views Rate it
Lent — George Herbert	Welcome dear feast of Lent: who loves not thee, He loves not Temperance, or Authority, But is compos'd of passion. The Scriptures bid us fast; the...	209 views Rate it
City Of Orgies — Walt Whitman	CITY of orgies, walks and joys! City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious, Not the pageants...	206 views Rate it
The Lass That Made the Bed to Me — Robert Burns	When Januar' wind was blawing cauld, As to the north I took my way, The mirksome night did me enfauld, I knew na whare to lodge till day: By my gude...	205 views Rate it
Time's Revenges — Robert Browning	I've a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books I write; They find such favour in his sight That he slaughters you...	205 views Rate it
One Life. — Diane Hull	A time for reflection; A time to move on. The old year has finished, A near year's begun. A fresh page has opened, The slate is wiped...	204 views Rate it
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House — Anne Bradstreet	In silent night when rest I took For sorrow near I did not look I waked was with thund'ring noise And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice. That fearful...	204 views Rate it
WE NEED TO BE BETTER — Napz	I think it’s time for us as one to start growing like a flower, most people would say that’s sweet but the smart ones know it’s sour, more into...	203 views Rate it
Elegiac Stanzas — William Wordsworth	Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells, Rude Nature's Pilgrims did we go, From the dread summit of the Queen Of mountains, through a deep ravine, ...	201 views Rate it

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