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Dad — Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more; I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war. A proud ole man 'e was. But I've watched 'im, An' seen 'is...	299 views Rate it
Lara — George Gordon Lord Byron	LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. ...	299 views Rate it
To Live In God — Anthony Logan	Live in God ,and speak with a heavenly tong .....your words will be understood by the old and the young.....Ideas come from youth ,so let us be gentle...	297 views Rate it
Pagett, M.P. — Rudyard Kipling	The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where eath tooth-point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that...	297 views Rate it
Yee Bow — Edgar Lee Masters	They got me into the Sunday-school In Spoon River And tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus. I could have been no worse off If I had tried to get...	297 views Rate it
Neighbours — Rudyard Kipling	The man that is open of heart to his neighbour, And stops to consider his likes and dislikes, His blood shall be wholesome whatever his labour, His luck...	295 views Rate it
Character of the Happy Warrior — William Wordsworth	. Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? --It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks...	293 views Rate it
The Life Of The Foetus. — Liam Ó Comain	The life of the foetus Prior to birth And during infancy Is closely linked With the life of Its mother Even to the extent That they share One...	291 views Rate it
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan — Vachel Lindsay	I...	291 views Rate it
The City of Brass — Rudyard Kipling	“Here was a people whom after their works thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion:and in this palace is the last information respecting lords...	291 views Rate it
Eve- Song — Dame Mary Gilmore	I span and Eve span A thread to bind the heart of man; But the heart of man was a wandering thing That came and went with little to bring: Nothing he...	291 views Rate it
Freedom of Love — Andre Breton	(Translated from the French by Edouard...	291 views Rate it
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Indian Summer — Archibald Lampman	The old grey year is near his term in sooth, And now with backward eye and soft-laid palm Awakens to a golden dream of youth, A second childhood lovely...	290 views Rate it
The Best School of All — Sir Henry Newbolt	It's good to see the school we knew, the land of youth and dream. To greet again the rule we knew, before we took the stream. Though long we've missed the...	289 views Rate it
My Shadow — Robert Louis Stevenson	From Child's Garden of...	289 views Rate it
Ode to Winter — Thomas Campbell	When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four the Seasons flew. First, in green...	288 views Rate it
Sick — Shel Silverstein	"I cannot go to school today," Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my...	286 views Rate it
Café Comedy — Robert William Service	She...	286 views Rate it
A Cradle Song — Thomas Dekker	Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise. Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby: Rock them, rock them,...	286 views Rate it
Pioneers! O Pioneers! — Walt Whitman	COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes? ...	286 views Rate it
Poets — Robert Fuller Murray	Children of earth are we, Lovers of land and sea, Of hill, of brook, of tree, Of all things fair; Of all things dark or bright, Born of the day and night,...	286 views Rate it
The Echoing Green — William Blake	The sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome the spring; The skylark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder...	285 views Rate it
Demeter and Persephone — Alfred Lord Tennyson	Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies All night across the darkness, and at dawn Falls on the threshold of her native land, And can no more, thou...	285 views Rate it
The 'Eathen — Rudyard Kipling	The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own; 'E keeps 'is side-arms awful: 'e leaves 'em all...	284 views Rate it