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Baby's Dreams — Isabella Valancy Crawford	I SAW a fairy twine, Of star-white jessamine, A dainty seat, shaped like an airy swing, With two round yellow stars Against the misty bars Of night; she...	495 views Rate it
Song Of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers On The Plain Of Enna — Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth, Thou from whose immortal bosom Gods and men and beasts have birth, Leaf and blade, and bud and blossom, Breathe...	494 views Rate it
Leila And Athelstan, Our Loving Mom and Dad (In Celebration of Your 50th Wedding Anniversary) — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Two score years and ten of yesterday, You two did tie the knot: Whereof you spun your golden thread, And made the land fertile. It was in Nineteen...	487 views Rate it
Dewi the dragon — Alan Parry-Booth	DEWI THE DRAGON. Dewi is a dragon Born and bred in Wales Weaned on meals of laverbread And Felifoel’s best...	486 views Rate it
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother — John Greenleaf Whittier	Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern...	485 views Rate it
Low-Tide — Edna St. Vincent Millay	These wet rocks where the tide has been, Barnacled white and weeded brown And slimed beneath to a beautiful green, These wet rocks where the tide went...	483 views Rate it
Jim — Hilaire Belloc	Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a...	480 views Rate it
There Was A Child Went Forth — Walt Whitman	THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the...	476 views Rate it
Remembrances — John Clare	Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh on I tried to call them back but unbidden they...	476 views Rate it
King Claudius — Constantine P. Cavafy	My mind now moves to distant places. I'm walking the streets of Elsinore, through its squares, and I recall the very sad story- that unfortunate king...	470 views Rate it
A Wife—at daybreak I shall be — Emily Dickinson	A Wife—at daybreak I shall be— Sunrise—Hast thou a Flag for me? At Midnight, I am but a Maid, How short it takes to make a Bride— Then—Midnight, I have...	468 views Rate it
The barren music of a word or phrase, — Christopher Morley	THE barren music of a word or phrase, The futile arts of syllable and stress, He sought. The poetry of common days He did not...	468 views Rate it
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory — William Butler Yeats	Now that we're almost settled in our house I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a fire of turf in th' ancient tower, And having talked...	465 views Rate it
The Syncopated Riddle of Life — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A pulse, a heartbeat, a human breath. The waves of the ocean. A billowing cloud floating by. Tree leaves blowing in the wind. The soft mewing of a...	464 views Rate it
The Ballad of the White Horse — Gilbert Keith Chesterton	DEDICATION...	464 views Rate it
Birth And Death — Algernon Charles Swinburne	Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, Night and day, on all things that draw breath, Reign, while time keeps friends with one another Birth and...	464 views Rate it
O Blush Not So! — John Keats	O BLUSH not so! O blush not so! Or I shall think you knowing; And if you smile the blushing while, Then maidenheads are...	462 views Rate it
The Foster Mother's Tale. A Dramatic Fragment — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ter. But that entrance, Selma? Sel. Can no one hear? It is a perilous tale! Ter. No one. Sel. My husband's father told it me, Poor old Sesina -- angels...	457 views Rate it
Love and Harmony — William Blake	Love and harmony combine, And round our souls entwine While thy branches mix with mine, And our roots together...	454 views Rate it
Sweet Death — Christina Georgina Rossetti	The sweetest blossoms die. And so it was that, going day by day Unto the church to praise and pray, And crossing the green churchyard thoughtfully, I saw...	454 views Rate it
To A Gentleman And Lady On The Death Of The Lady's Brother And Sister, And A Child Of The Name Of Avis, Aged One Year — Phillis Wheatley	ON Death's domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies: With pensive mind I search the drear abode, Where the great conqu'ror has...	452 views Rate it
A Child Asleep — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures, to make room for...	451 views Rate it
Children — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Come to me, O ye children! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite...	449 views Rate it
Looking-Glass River — Robert Louis Stevenson	Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam-- O the clean gravel! O the smooth...	448 views Rate it
A Parody on Sara Henderson Hay’s “Story Hour” — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Mama, I remember: The Dragon, The Bad Fairy. The Princess and The Sleeper. (And The Sleepwaker too) … And the death of Humpty Dumpty. As he sat upon...	447 views Rate it