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To Forget Her Was Impossible — Nikhil Parekh	The Sun may have forgotten to shine at times; leaving the Earth submerged in partial...	366 views Rate it
The Witch Of Atlas — Percy Bysshe Shelley	Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted from the earth All those...	366 views Rate it
Child Ballad — Charles Kingsley	Jesus, He loves one and all, Jesus, He loves children small, Their souls are waiting round His feet On high, before His...	366 views Rate it
His Final Call — Sherrie Ann Benedict	World, our kids are starving Many with no place to sleep Millions with no families, left orphaned Cold, hopeless; Alone on the...	365 views Rate it
Have happiest New Year by Astghick Moradkhanians — Astghick Moradkhanians	Have a happiest time of your life! That good God through faith of Mary Nazareth and Joseph; brought us the Christ child's miracle, his gift of peace! ...	365 views Rate it
Mercy And Innocence — Peter John Allan	When Mercy, first from Heaven deputed, (The fact has never been disputed), Arrived on earth, there with her came A certain bashful, blue-eyed dame, Whom...	365 views Rate it
The Unseen Playmate — Robert Louis Stevenson	When children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen. When children are happy and lonely and good, The Friend of the...	365 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, and...	365 views Rate it
The Pleiades — Amy Lowell	By day you cannot see the sky For it is up so very high. You look and look, but it's so blue That you can never see right...	365 views Rate it
The Little Girl Lost — William Blake	In futurity I prophesy see. That the earth from sleep. (Grave the sentence...	364 views Rate it
Cadenus And Vanessa — Jonathan Swift	THE shepherds and the nymphs were seen Pleading before the Cyprian Queen. The counsel for the fair began Accusing the false creature, man. The brief with...	364 views Rate it
Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas — Anne Brontë	In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and go like Ocean tides; And ere one...	364 views Rate it
It Is Later Than You Think — Robert William Service	Lone amid the cafe's cheer, Sad of heart am I to-night; Dolefully I drink my beer, But no single line I write. There's the wretched rent to pay, Yet I...	362 views Rate it
Let Us Nourish Mysticism. — Liam Ó Comain	A personal relationship with our loving God Is what humanity requires in this era of...	361 views Rate it
A Rhapsody Of Death. — Eric Mackay	I. That phantoms fair, with radiant hair, May seek at midnight hour The sons of men, belov'd again, And give them holy power; That souls survive the...	360 views Rate it
At The Ship’s Rail — Harriet Monroe	The blue sea bends to the ship Like a dancer with skirts of lace— Wide diaphanous laces that curl and dip In the ardent wind's...	360 views Rate it
The four Seasons of the Year. — Anne Bradstreet	Spring. Another four I've left yet to bring on, Of four times four the last Quaternion, The Winter, Summer, Autumn & the Spring, In season all these...	359 views Rate it
Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen — William Butler Yeats	MANY ingenious lovely things are gone That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, protected from the circle of the moon That pitches common things about. ...	358 views Rate it
‘You Rise the Water Unfolds’ — Paul Eluard	You rise the water unfolds You sleep the water flowers You are water ploughed from its depths You are earth that takes root And in which all is...	358 views Rate it
The Truth About Santa — Don Stephens	Prologue: As children we marveled at the mystery of Santa. Why does he live at the North Pole? How old is he? Who are the elves and how did...	357 views Rate it
This Section is a Christmas Tree — Vachel Lindsay	This section is a Christmas tree: Loaded with pretty toys for you. Behold the blocks, the Noah's arks, The popguns painted red and blue. No solemn...	357 views Rate it
Buddha at Kamakura — Rudyard Kipling	Oye who treated the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, Be gentle when "the heathen" pray To Buddha at...	357 views Rate it
Mcmxiv — Philip Larkin	Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats, the sun On moustached archaic...	356 views Rate it
The Schoolboy — William Blake	I love to rise in a summer morn When the birds sing on every tree; The distant huntsman winds his horn, And the skylark sings with me. O! what sweet...	354 views Rate it
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England — Felicia Dorothea Hemans	"Look now abroad--another race has fill'd Those populous borders--wide the wood recedes, And town shoots up, and fertile realms are till'd; The land is...	354 views Rate it

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