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Africa in Tears — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The people mourning. Their ancient art are removed. Robbed, stolen, and gone. Gone from Mother Africa. To European countries. Gone from Africa. To...	454 views Rate it
Sweet—safe—Houses — Emily Dickinson	Sweet—safe—Houses—Glad—gay—Houses— Sealed so stately tight— Lids of Steel—on Lids of Marble— Locking Bare feet...	454 views Rate it
The Rocking Chair — Betsy Wokersien Stephens	She gathers her thoughts as she rocks in the chair And stares out the window into the thin air Alone with the memories that dance in her mind The old...	453 views Rate it
Dust — Rupert Brooke	When the white flame in us is gone, And we that lost the world's delight Stiffen in darkness, left alone To crumble in our separate...	452 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
In falling Timbers buried — Emily Dickinson	In falling Timbers buried— There breathed a Man— Outside—the spades—were plying— The...	452 views Rate it
I like a look of Agony — Emily Dickinson	I like a look of Agony, Because I know it's true— Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a...	452 views Rate it
Serenade — Edgar Allan Poe	So sweet the hour, so calm the time, I feel it more than half a crime, When Nature sleeps and stars are mute, To mar the silence ev'n with...	451 views Rate it
The Quitter — Robert William Service	When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle ...	451 views Rate it
A Child's Nightmare — Robert Graves	Through long nursery nights he stood By my bed unwearying, Loomed gigantic, formless, queer, Purring in my haunted ear That same hideous nightmare thing,...	449 views Rate it
The American Flag — Joseph Rodman Drake	I. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She...	448 views Rate it
The Man Against the Sky — Edwin Arlington Robinson	Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden hill, Bleak, round, and high, by flame-lit height made...	447 views Rate it
Silhouette — Emily Pauline Johnson	The sky-line melts from russet into blue, Unbroken the horizon, saving where A wreath of smoke curls up the far, thin air, And points the distant...	446 views Rate it
A Coward — Ambrose Bierce	By hardihood to rise and fear to strike, And fitly to rebuke his sins decrees, That, hide from others with what care he please, Night sha'n't be black...	444 views Rate it
The Power of Music — John Fletcher	Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun...	442 views Rate it
Nature's Questioning — Thomas Hardy	WHEN I look forth at dawning, pool, Field, flock, and lonely tree, All seem to look at me Like chastened children sitting silent in a...	432 views Rate it
Here Lies The Blithe Spring — Thomas Dekker	HERE lies the blithe Spring, Who first taught birds to sing, Yet in April herself fell a-crying: Then May growing hot, A sweating sickness she got, ...	432 views Rate it
The Sacrifice — George Herbert	Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To me, who took eyes that I might you find: Was ever...	432 views Rate it
Hymn 122 — Isaac Watts	Believers buried with Christ in baptism. Rom....	430 views Rate it
Hiawatha's Childhood — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell Nokomis, Fell the beautiful...	430 views Rate it
Marching Men — Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall	Under the level winter sky I saw a thousand Christs go by. They sang an idle song and free As they went up to...	429 views Rate it
Guinevere — Alfred Lord Tennyson	Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save a little maid, A novice: one low light...	428 views Rate it
The song you sing. — A J C	The song you sing. I can hear the song you sing, and I do understand. You hold the key to love and fear in the palm of your trembling hand. Just one...	426 views Rate it
To Catullus — Algernon Charles Swinburne	My brother, my Valerius, dearest head Of all whose crowning bay-leaves crown their mother Rome, in the notes first heard of thine I read My...	425 views Rate it
The Russian Bear in Arms With the Ukraine — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Putin and Hitler. Two European warlords. Birds of same feathers. Waging dangerous warfare. One checked, the other unchecked. Hitler and Putin. ...	423 views Rate it