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The Witch's Daughter — John Greenleaf Whittier	It was the pleasant harvest time, When cellar-bins are closely stowed, And garrets bend beneath their...	410 views Rate it
Jogadhya Uma. — Toru Dutt	"Shell-bracelets ho! Shell-bracelets ho! Fair maids and matrons come and buy!" Along the road, in morning's glow, The pedlar raised his wonted cry. The...	409 views Rate it
Come, Follow Jesus — Liam Ó Comáin	Come, Follow Jesus! For he was there at our beginning And he will be there at our...	408 views Rate it
Through a Glass Darkly — Arthur Hugh Clough	What we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear; Ah! did he tell what we are...	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
The Borough. Letter XXII: Peter Grimes — George Crabbe	Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ, His wife he cabin'd with him and his boy, And seem'd that life laborious to enjoy: To town came quiet...	407 views Rate it
A Dialogue Of Self And Soul — William Butler Yeats	i{My Soul} I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, crumbling battlement, Upon the breathless...	406 views Rate it
The Fawn — Edna St. Vincent Millay	There it was I saw what I shall never forget And never retrieve. Monstrous and beautiful to human eyes, hard to believe, He lay, yet there he lay, Asleep...	406 views Rate it
The Beach — Robert Graves	Louder than gulls the little children scream Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam; But others fearlessly rush in, breast high, Laughing the salty...	403 views Rate it
Tomlinson — Rudyard Kipling	Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and gripped him by the hair -- A Spirit gripped him by...	401 views Rate it
The Black Sheep — Robert William Service	"The aristocratic ne'er-do-well in Canada frequently finds his way into the ranks of the Royal North-West Mounted Police." --...	401 views Rate it
The Last of the Light Brigade — Rudyard Kipling	There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither food...	399 views Rate it
Savantism — Walt Whitman	THITHER, as I look, I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated; Thither hours, months,...	399 views Rate it
Harvest Hymn — Sarojini Naidu	Mens...	399 views Rate it
Lancelot — Edwin Arlington Robinson	Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King’s garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded arms And weary-waiting eyes,...	399 views Rate it
Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats — John Keats	Give me your patience, sister, while I frame Exact in capitals your golden name; Or sue the fair Apollo and he will Rouse from his heavy slumber and...	398 views Rate it
The Judge — Rabindranath Tagore	Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should...	397 views Rate it
Affection — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge	The earth that made the rose, She also is thy mother, and not I. The flame wherewith thy maiden spirit glows Was lighted at no hearth that I sit by. I...	396 views Rate it
Word's Great Battle — Barry W Smith	If war was only words fought in the dark of night Then the pain would go away in the morning light But the strength of the battle is in the lack of...	395 views Rate it
Her Immortality — Thomas Hardy	UPON a noon I pilgrimed through A pasture, mile by mile, Unto the place where I last saw My dead Love's living...	394 views Rate it
Einstein-de Saussure-Jung — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The Thing and the Thought. The concrete and the abstract. The Thing as a Thought. The Thought as a Thing. The Signifier and the Signified. God as...	393 views Rate it
A tribute to mothers — Robert curran	-- A mother's work is never done From dawn to the setting sun The cooking cleaning shopping and all Is enough to make a grown man Feel weary and...	393 views Rate it
The Tide River — Charles Kingsley	Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow and dreaming pool; Cool and clear, cool and clear, By shining shingle and foaming weir; Under the crag...	393 views Rate it
An Epitaph [Hangman's hands laid in this tomb an] — Ambrose Bierce	Hangman's hands laid in this tomb an Imp of Satan's getting, whom an Ancient legend says that woman Never bore-he owed his birth To Sin herself. From Hell...	392 views Rate it
Mourning — Algernon Charles Swinburne	Alas my brother! the cry of the mourners of old That cried on each other, All crying aloud on the dead as the death-note rolled, Alas my...	392 views Rate it