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The Chariot — Emily Dickinson	Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And...	814 views Rate it
Ode to Simplicity — William Taylor Collins	O thou, by Nature taught To breathe her genuine thought In numbers warmly pure, and sweetly strong; Who first on mountains wild, ...	806 views Rate it
The Sensitive Plant — Percy Bysshe Shelley	PART 1. A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light. And closed them...	776 views Rate it
A Poet's Home — Charles Harpur	HERE in this lonely rill-engirdled spot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot, With one vowed to me with beloved lips How sweet to draw, as hiddenly...	753 views Rate it
My Heart Leaps Up — William Wordsworth	My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let...	745 views Rate it
The Building of the Ship — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!" ...	738 views Rate it
Pandemic of Pandemic! — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Call it pandemic. Pandemic of Pandemic! Man of flesh and blood. Bartering with unknown realms. His body, soul, and spirit. Call it pandemic. Our...	723 views Rate it
My Mother — Ann Taylor	Who sat and watched my infant head When sleeping on my cradle bed, And tears of sweet affection shed? My...	715 views Rate it
The Homes Of England — Felicia Dorothea Hemans	The stately homes of England How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their green sward...	710 views Rate it
Penance For a Mercurial NBA Player — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Made of sterner stuff. Image of athletic skills. Conformed yet to disappointments, He rose to the very top. As a stalwart college freshman. Earning...	709 views Rate it
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy — Lewis Carroll	And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a vio lent shake at the end of every line:...	699 views Rate it
What Fifty Said.. — Robert Frost	When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. I suffered like a metal being cast. I went to school to age to learn...	698 views Rate it
The ocean said to me once, — Stephen Crane	The ocean said to me once, "Look! Yonder on the shore Is a woman, weeping. I have watched her. Go you and tell her this -- Her lover I have laid In...	695 views Rate it
All the World's a Stage — William Shakespeare	All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,...	686 views Rate it
The Brewing Of Soma — John Greenleaf Whittier	The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke Up through the green wood curled; 'Bring honey from the hollow oak, Bring milky sap,' the brewers spoke, In the...	686 views Rate it
Vitaï Lampada — Sir Henry Newbolt	There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- Ten to make and the match to win -- A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the...	679 views Rate it
Night and Day — Robert Louis Stevenson	When the golden day is done, Through the closing portal, Child and garden, Flower and sun, Vanish all things...	672 views Rate it
The Sandpiper — Celia Thaxter	Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast I gather, but by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry. The wild waves...	660 views Rate it
Henry King — Hilaire Belloc	The Chief Defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of String. At last he swallowed some which tied Itself in ugly Knots...	654 views Rate it
Psyche Courting Eros — Karl Constantine FOLKES	So let the love game begin It’s a match with a win Pray, let the love game begin From without and within. Thru thick and thru thin A love match...	653 views Rate it
Old Rinny Tin-Tin — Robin Loving	Moe jumped in the car And his dad closed the door A ride to the park Was all he lived for. He was armed with his ball But something didn't feel...	652 views Rate it
The grave site on the hill. — A J C	The grave site on the hill. My dreams are like a field of golden wheat that sways back and forth through the cool summer breeze. As I walk, I can see a...	647 views Rate it
A Smuggler's Song — Rudyard Kipling	If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie....	633 views Rate it
Arethusa — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I. Arethusa arose From her couch of snows In the Acroceraunian mountains,-- From cloud and from crag, With many a jag, Shepherding her bright fountains....	629 views Rate it
The Fairy Pool — Karl Constantine FOLKES	From dreams I peep into the world. Into the outer world some call reality. The fairy pool, its currents ever swirling. That magical place filled...	627 views Rate it