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Gentlemen-Rankers — Rudyard Kipling	To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred,...	627 views Rate it
Awakening — Jean Cocteau	Grave mouths of lions Sinuous smiling of young crocodiles Along the river's water conveying millions Isles of spice How lovely he is, the son Of the...	627 views Rate it
Night — Anne Brontë	I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes! And then a voice...	627 views Rate it
Cologne — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	In Köhln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous stones And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ; I counted two and...	626 views Rate it
Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie — Edmund Spenser	I SING of deadly dolorous debate, Stir'd vp through wrathfull Nemesis despight, Betwixt two mightie ones of great estate, Drawne into armes, and proofe of...	626 views Rate it
Song Of The Redwood-Tree — Walt Whitman	A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection--a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing--or hamadryads...	621 views Rate it
The time has come to say goodbye — Lidia Cangeopol	Your absence, Chris, consumes me high and low Beautiful soul, your image is burned into my mind, but even so The time has come to say goodbye and let you...	619 views Rate it
A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they...	618 views Rate it
A Watch In The Night — Algernon Charles Swinburne	Watchman, what of the night? - Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. Only the balefires are bright, ...	618 views Rate it
Home Burial — Robert Frost	He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over her shoulder at some fear. She took a doubtful step...	616 views Rate it
I THINK MY WORDS KNOW YOU — mad hippie poet	With my mind in my thoughts and my favorite pen in hand, I write the words of my life, unknowingly knowing that they may be someone else's survival plan,...	615 views Rate it
Life keeps moving — Nancy Nunez	I do not know all the answers and that’s ok. I do know this. Sometimes we break to renew. Sometimes we have darkness to appreciate our brighter days....	614 views Rate it
Blue Roses — Rudyard Kipling	Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight. She would none of all my posies-- Bade me gather her blue...	608 views Rate it
The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top — Stephen Crane	The chatter of a death-demon from a...	608 views Rate it
Why do You weep? — A J C	Why do you weep? Why do you sit by my grave? I'm not there. I do not sleep. I am the wind that blows through your hair. The sparkle that's in your eyes...	606 views Rate it
The Slave Dealer — Thomas Pringle	From ocean's wave a Wanderer came, With visage tanned and dun: His Mother, when he told his name, Scarce knew her long-lost son; So altered was his face...	604 views Rate it
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo — Gerard Manley Hopkins	(Maidens’ song from St. Winefred’s Well) THE LEADEN...	599 views Rate it
The Ladies — Rudyard Kipling	I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts, An' four o' the lot was prime. One...	597 views Rate it
I HAVE BECOME THE STORY TELLER — mad hippie poet	Let me tell you a story, or you can read my words of glory. We all need to find that one damn thing others can not bring. We all have hearts and souls, a...	596 views Rate it
Mr. Housman's Message — Ezra Pound	O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead...	591 views Rate it
The Grey Monk — William Blake	1 'I die, I die!' the Mother said, 2 'My children die for lack of bread. 3 What more has the merciless Tyrant said?' 4 The Monk sat down...	588 views Rate it
Swan Song — Algernon Charles Swinburne	We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; To-day will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man’s lure; And love grown faint and fretful, With lips but...	588 views Rate it
The Demon — Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov	“...Cold and regretless shalt thou view this sphere, Where crime’s inseparable from fate, Where beauty only blossoms to grow sear, Where all is miserable,...	582 views Rate it
The Ballad of Dick Turpin — Alfred Noyes	The daylight moon looked quietly down Through the gathering dusk on London town A smock-frocked yokel hobbled along By Newgate, humming a country...	582 views Rate it
The Leaden-Eyed — Vachel Lindsay	Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor...	581 views Rate it

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