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Base Details — Siegfried Sassoon	If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. You'd see me with...	527 views Rate it
A Song Of Suicide — Robert William Service	Deeming that I were better dead, "How shall I kill myself?" I said. Thus mooning by the river Seine I sought extinction without pain, When on a bridge I...	525 views Rate it
Do People moulder equally — Emily Dickinson	Do People moulder equally, They bury, in the Grave? I do believe a Species As positively...	524 views Rate it
I Abide and Abide and Better Abide — David McKee Wright	I abide and abide and better abide, And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to me doth say, 'Let me alone and I will provide.' I abide...	524 views Rate it
The Answer — Kaushik Prabhav	He awoke in the depths surrounded by the dark, Narrow and winding was the path; He looked the other way, but to his dismay, The path was all he had. ...	523 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
Silence — Edgar Lee Masters	I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence...	522 views Rate it
The Knight's Tomb — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn? Where may the grave of that good man be?-- By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn, Under the twigs...	521 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...	518 views Rate it
The Ungrateful Dead — William M Hutson	Sometimes when i'm out cruisin' and singin' in traffic All of a sudden the words get real graphic Cuz what's passin' before me is hurtin' my head It's...	516 views Rate it
Cramped in That Funnelled Hole — Wilfred Owen	Cramped in that funnelled hole, they watched the dawn Open a jagged rim around; a yawn Of death's jaws, which had all but swallowed them Stuck in the...	511 views Rate it
Evelyn Hope — Robert Browning	I....	511 views Rate it
The keeper of the Stone. — A J C	The shadows I see. It's a beautiful day as I walk through the town, stop by the old church, and look around. Gazing behind it, I discern an ordained...	509 views Rate it
The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak — Archibald MacLeish	The young dead soldiers do not speak. Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard...	508 views Rate it
Digging — Edward Thomas	What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth, Letting down two clay pipes into the earth? The one I smoked, the other a soldier Of Blenheim, Ramillies,...	507 views Rate it
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray	The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to...	506 views Rate it
I'm older than I used to be. — I'm older than I used to be.	I'm older than I used to be, I remember yesterday quite clearly I was clever smart and sharp, each day had purpose. Now, I'm not so sure what to do, ...	504 views Rate it
A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety — William Butler Yeats	COME swish around, my pretty punk, And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my...	499 views Rate it
A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink — Emily Dickinson	A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink— I hunted all the Sand— I caught the Dripping of a Rock And bore it in my...	499 views Rate it
A Father To His Son — Carl Sandburg	A father sees his son nearing manhood. What shall he tell that son? 'Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.' And this might stand him for the storms and serve...	497 views Rate it
Hate Not - Fear Not — Robert Graves	Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must...	497 views Rate it
Dreamland — Edgar Allan Poe	By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns...	496 views Rate it
End Of The World — Robinson Jeffers	When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War, We used to take it for known that the human race Would last the earth out, not...	495 views Rate it
Truth Falsified By Lies — Karl Constantine FOLKES	When war is waging And no one trusts each other, First casualty That aborts the hope of peace Is Truth — falsified by...	493 views Rate it
A Bad Night — Ambrose Bierce	DRAMATIS...	492 views Rate it