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Anna Imroth — Carl Sandburg	Cross the hands over the breast here--so. Straighten the legs a little more--so. And call for the wagon to come and take her home. Her mother will cry...	425 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...	424 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...	424 views Rate it
A Servant To Servants — Robert Frost	I didn't make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our land. I promised myself to get down some day And see the way you lived, but I...	423 views Rate it
Midnight in Sitka Park — Sonia Walker	The silence of the park seizes the hour of dusk, where majestic snow-capped mountains adjoin the skies of midnight blue; a halo of light encircles the...	422 views Rate it
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
Winter Rain — Christina Georgina Rossetti	Every valley drinks, Every dell and hollow; Where the kind rain sinks and sinks, Green of Spring will...	420 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 Man in the Glass — Anonymous Americas	When you get what you want in your struggle for self and the world makes you king for a day Just go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what that...	419 views Rate it
Algernon — Hilaire Belloc	Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his...	418 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
Wisdom of TAO Te Ching — Karl Constantine FOLKES	THEME of TAO : “The emptiness of the circle ⭕️ is the fullness of its expression.” Use of languages, a lexicon artifact, with syntactic rules, ...	416 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
He told a homely tale — Emily Dickinson	He told a homely tale And spotted it with tears— Upon his infant face was set The Cicatrice of...	414 views Rate it
Introduction: Pippa Passes — Robert Browning	New Year's Day at Asolo in the Trevisan Scene.- A large mean airy chamber. A girl, Pippa, from the Silk-mills, springing out of bed...	413 views Rate it
Trainor the Druggist — Edgar Lee Masters	Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will...	413 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
For Sale — Shel Silverstein	One sister for sale, One sister for sale, One crying and spying young sister for sale I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding Do I hear a...	411 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
Moon Song — Robert William Service	A child saw in the morning skies The dissipated-looking moon, And opened wide her big blue eyes, And cried: "Look, look, my lost balloon!" And clapped her...	411 views Rate it
The Pariah - The Pariah's Thanks — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	MIGHTY Brama, now I'll bless thee! 'Tis from thee that worlds proceed! As my ruler I confess thee, For of all thou takest...	411 views Rate it
Freedom — Helen Hunt Jackson	What freeman knoweth freedom? Never he Whose father's father through long lives have reigned O'er kingdoms which mere heritage attained. Though from...	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
On Hermocratia (From The Greek) — William Cowper	Hermocratia named -- save only one -- Twice fifteen births I bore, and buried none; For neither Phoebus pierced my thriving joys, Nor Dian -- she my...	410 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

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