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Prometheus — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with oaks and mountain-peaks, Yet thou must...	543 views Rate it
So Cruel Prison — Henry Howard	So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy With a king's son my childish years did pass In greater feast than...	539 views Rate it
My old football — John Milton Hayes	YOU can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze, Your curios and tapestries so fine, But of all your treasures rare there is nothing to...	538 views Rate it
Friends — William Butler Yeats	NOW must I these three praise -- Three women that have wrought What joy is in my days: One because no thought, Nor those unpassing cares, No, not in these...	537 views Rate it
The Indwelling Alchemy of Life — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Dearest comrade of this natural world. Observe the order of the universe. Created not by human hands, but by spirit. Transforming all that which...	535 views Rate it
The Purse-Seine — Robinson Jeffers	Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where to spread the net, unable to...	535 views Rate it
A Fence — Carl Sandburg	Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the workmen are beginning the fence. The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that can...	535 views Rate it
The Debutante — Sommer Rains	The Debutante Life without friends is empty and bleak. like the pit of quicksand That they all gather round sitting, staring, ...	533 views Rate it
A Child's Evening Prayer — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear In strength and health for many a year; And, O!...	533 views Rate it
Meditations In Time Of Civil War — William Butler Yeats	I Ancestral Houses SURELY among a rich man s flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down...	532 views Rate it
A DAUGHTERS CRY — mad hippie poet	She looked at me in the same way as she did as a child. The only thing was these tears were not the same as these tears wore my name. She looked at me now...	531 views Rate it
The Box — Lascelles Abercrombie	Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye, Around about the wondrous days of yore, They came across a kind of box Bound up with chains and locked...	531 views Rate it
Unquenchable — Judah Rollins	I'm the heiress of the Alpha and Omega a omen of what's to come, I'm on set , I'm coming I'm on rush, I'm open handed , I'm the opener , I'm on...	522 views Rate it
Excerpts from Cantos I and II — D. S. Fly	A Procession on Saint Martin’s Eve: Arrival 3 And then upon Saint Martin’s Eve A blinking stream of lights Appeared before my glazéd eyes And,...	520 views Rate it
your pain — Cody Floodman	I don’t want to live on this earth for a long time, I just want to go home Cause nothing is truly beautiful, not this art, not even song And every...	517 views Rate it
Dear Children of God — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Dear children of God: Each one of you is special, Made in His image, Created, and so fashioned, In the way He desired. Gifted with language; Each...	513 views Rate it
The Trouble With Snowmen — Roger McGough	The trouble with snowmen,' Said my father one year 'They are no sooner made than they just...	513 views Rate it
Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII — Walt Whitman	I Celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to...	513 views Rate it
I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child — Robert Graves	Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their hearts desire: Jingle pockets full of gold,...	513 views Rate it
The Lark Ascending — George Meredith	He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake, All intervolv’d and...	513 views Rate it
Choosing A Profession — Charles Lamb	A Creole boy from the West Indies brought, To be in European learning taught, Some years before to Westminster he went, To a preparatory school was sent....	510 views Rate it
H. Baptism II — George Herbert	Since, Lord, to thee A narrow way and little gate Is all the passage, on my infancy Thou didst lay hold, and antedate My faith in...	505 views Rate it
The Scarecrow — Walter de la Mare	All winter through I bow my head beneath the driving rain; the North Wind powders me with snow and blows me black again; at midnight 'neath a maze of...	501 views Rate it
A Light Woman — Robert Browning	I....	501 views Rate it
How Fortunate the Man with None — Bertolt Brecht	From the play "Mother...	500 views Rate it