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An Anatomy Of The World... — John Donne	When that rich soul which to her heaven is gone, Whom all do celebrate, who know they have one (For who is sure he hath a soul, unless It...	422 views Rate it
Anthem For Doomed Youth — Wilfred Owen	What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their...	421 views Rate it
A Ballad of Burial — Rudyard Kipling	If down here I chance to die, Solemnly I beg you take All that is left of "I" To the Hills for old sake's sake, Pack me very thoroughly In the ice that...	419 views Rate it
The Law Of The Yukon — Robert William Service	This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane -- Strong for the red rage...	419 views Rate it
The Haunted House — Thomas Hood	Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe, Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, With all the dark solemnities that show That Death is...	417 views Rate it
Goodbye! — Richard Aldington	Come, thrust your hands in the warm earth And feel her strength through all your veins; Breathe her full odors, taste her mouth, Which laughs away...	417 views Rate it
The Drowned Man — Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	Children running into izba, Calling father, dripping sweat: "Daddy, daddy! come -- there is a Deadman caught inside our net." "Fancy, fancy...	417 views Rate it
On Olympus. — Robert Crawford	The high noises, The great voices, They of the sky In the clouds wrangle, Jar it and jangle Till Death shall die. In the bright houses With their false...	416 views Rate it
Sin (II) — George Herbert	O that I could a sin once see! We paint the devil foul, yet he Hath some good in him, all agree. Sin is flat opposite to th' Almighty, seeing It wants...	416 views Rate it
The Willow — Dorothy Parker	On sweet young earth where the myrtle presses, Long we lay, when the May was new; The willow was winding the moon in her tresses, The bud of the rose...	416 views Rate it
Morning Twilight — Charles Baudelaire	Reveille was sounding on barrack-squares, and the wind of dawn blew on lighted stairs. It was the hour when a swarm of evil visions torments swarthy...	415 views Rate it
Ode to the West Wind — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter...	414 views Rate it
Easter — Katharine Tynan	Bring flowers to strew His way, Yea, sing, make holiday; Bid young lambs leap, And earth laugh after...	414 views Rate it
Memories. — Dianejean57	Memories I am lying by your side. I can see the sunshine in your eyes. It has to be a crime to look so divine. Just give me a sign. Then we can have a...	413 views Rate it
Inchcape Rock — Robert Southey	No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The Ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean....	413 views Rate it
Paradise Lost: Book 09 — John Milton	No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast; permitting...	412 views Rate it
Ulysses — Alfred Lord Tennyson	It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a...	412 views Rate it
The Tower Beyond Tragedy — Robinson Jeffers	I You'd never have thought the Queen was Helen's sister- Troy's burning-flower from Sparta, the beautiful sea-flower Cut in clear stone, crowned with the...	411 views Rate it
The Gallows — Edward Thomas	There was a weasel lived in the sun With all his family, Till a keeper shot him with his gun And hung him up on a tree, Where he swings in the wind and...	411 views Rate it
Chase Henry — Edgar Lee Masters	In my life I was the town drunkard; When I died the priest denied me burial In holy ground. The which rebounded to my good fortune. For the...	411 views Rate it
The Price — Arthur Symons	Pity all faithless women who have loved. None knows How much it hurts a woman to do wrong to love. The mother who has felt the child within her move,...	411 views Rate it
The Municipal Gallery Revisited — William Butler Yeats	AROUND me the images of thirty years: An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side; Casement upon trial, half hidden by the bars, Guarded; Griffith staring in...	410 views Rate it
You're right— — Emily Dickinson	You're right—"the way is narrow"— And "difficult the Gate"— And "few there be"—Correct again— That "enter...	409 views Rate it
The Symphony — Sidney Lanier	"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for love," the violins said. "Of what avail the rigorous...	408 views Rate it
H for Higher. — Higher	Twitches feeling stitches in my ditches Formation to full my blood with witches But why call them out the ignorance of what was told to fool the...	407 views Rate it

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