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A Fatherless Child — Kevin Ryan Murray	You made me, you left me, you never even cared I was your second child and you still weren't prepared On the lonely nights was i was sad I found myself...	282 views Rate it
The Improvisatrice - I (Florence) — Letitia Elizabeth Landon	I am a daughter of that land, Where the poet’s lip and the painter’s hand Are most divine, —where the earth and sky, Are picture both and poetry— I am of...	281 views Rate it
The Steeple-Jack — Marianne Moore	Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; with the sweet sea air coming into your house on a...	281 views Rate it
I see around me tombstones grey — Emily Jane Brontë	I see around me tombstones grey Stretching their shadows far away. Beneath the turf my footsteps tread Lie low and lone the silent dead - Beneath the turf...	281 views Rate it
Nature the gentlest mother is — Emily Dickinson	Nature the gentlest mother is, Impatient of no child, The feeblest of the waywardest. Her admonition...	281 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...	281 views Rate it
To a Lady Very Well Known to the Whole Town — Voltaire	Phillis, how much the times are changed, Since in a hack the town you ranged, Since without finery or train you shone, Conspicuous for your charms alone;...	280 views Rate it
Ode on Solitude — Alexander Pope	Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own...	280 views Rate it
Song of Nature — Ralph Waldo Emerson	Mine are the night and morning, The pits of air, the gulf of space, The sportive sun, the gibbous moon, The innumerable...	279 views Rate it
Liberty — Paul Eluard	On my school notebooks On my desk and on the trees On the sands of snow I write your...	279 views Rate it
A Fairly Sad Tale — Dorothy Parker	I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire In men the rush and roar of fire, The sweet transparency of...	279 views Rate it
Yarrow Revisited — William Wordsworth	. The gallant Youth, who may have gained, Or seeks, a "winsome Marrow," Was but an Infant in the lap When first I looked on Yarrow; Once more,...	278 views Rate it
Faith And Despondency. — Emily Bronte	"The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night is gathering gray, We'll...	277 views Rate it
On Friendship — Kahlil Gibran	And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered, saying: Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow...	277 views Rate it
In School-Days — John Greenleaf Whittier	Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sleeping; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry-vines are...	277 views Rate it
Person — John M. Broadhead	I am not a person For a person is a person Of complete and single character Unique but comprehensible Who sees the world and judges With a clarity of...	276 views Rate it
Youth And Age — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying With NATURE, HOPE, and POESY, ...	276 views Rate it
A Draught Of Sunshine — John Keats	Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port, Away with old Hock and madeira, Too earthly ye are for my sport; There's a beverage brighter and clearer. Instead of...	275 views Rate it
Under The Rose — Christina Georgina Rossetti	'The iniquity of the fathers upon the children.' Oh the rose of keenest thorn! One hidden summer morn Under the rose I was...	275 views Rate it
Isaac and Archibald — Edwin Arlington Robinson	(To Mrs. Henry...	273 views Rate it
Where Memories Can Run — Kurt Philip Behm	I like old people that look old and young people that look young Concepts that are original laughter and...	271 views Rate it
Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun — Walt Whitman	GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard; Give me a field...	271 views Rate it
Among School Children — William Butler Yeats	I WALK through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books...	271 views Rate it
The Little Land — Robert Louis Stevenson	When at home alone I sit And am very tired of it, I have just to shut my eyes To go sailing through the skies-- To go sailing far away To the...	271 views Rate it
An Artist — Robinson Jeffers	That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman, Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and then was gone, at his high tide of...	270 views Rate it