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Monarchs of Their Own Realm — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Amidst the grime and dirt there’s merriment and mirth. Children’s hands with mud and dirt giving life a new rebirth. Their whimpering and scampering not...	573 views Rate it
Enoch Arden — Alfred Lord Tennyson	Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a...	570 views Rate it
The Everlasting Gospel — William Blake	The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision’s greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine; Mine has a snub nose like to mine. ...	569 views Rate it
On Another's Sorrow — William Blake	Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel...	568 views Rate it
Locksley Hall — Alfred Lord Tennyson	Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the...	567 views Rate it
The Land of Dreams — William Blake	Awake, awake, my little boy! Thou wast thy mother's only joy; Why dost thou weep in thy gentle sleep? Awake! thy father does thee...	565 views Rate it
Ode: Intimations of Immortality — William Wordsworth	I...	564 views Rate it
As the mind opens — Mark cloutier	Cross over to its shore Of light and enlightenment As the mind opens And the world closes its door As the door of perception Opens its doors once more And...	561 views Rate it
On life — Brian Kobrenski	Love rushes in, like a breath of fresh air. Intoxicating, overwhelming, a feeling without...	559 views Rate it
Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore — William Brighty Rands	Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore — No doubt you have heard the name before — Was a boy who never would shut a...	554 views Rate it
Drum-Taps — Walt Whitman	Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war; But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd, and I resign'd ...	549 views Rate it
The Oaks of Midland's Valley — Gregory Baranoff	The Oaks of Midland’s Valley Dedicated to Paul and Louise Squibb, Ben and Kay Rich and Carl and Kathy Munger ...	547 views Rate it
James I — Rudyard Kipling	1603-25...	547 views Rate it
Prometheus — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with oaks and mountain-peaks, Yet thou must...	543 views Rate it
Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott	O young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode...	540 views Rate it
So Cruel Prison — Henry Howard	So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy With a king's son my childish years did pass In greater feast than...	539 views Rate it
The Deception — Nadjina Camille	Dreading in my own thoughts Drowning in my own tears feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin, hearing a lovely melody emanating from the birds. ...	538 views Rate it
My old football — John Milton Hayes	YOU can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze, Your curios and tapestries so fine, But of all your treasures rare there is nothing to...	538 views Rate it
Go Down, Death — James Weldon Johnson	Weep not, weep not, She is not dead; She's resting in the bosom of Jesus. Heart-broken husband--weep no more; Grief-stricken son--weep no more;...	536 views Rate it
The Indwelling Alchemy of Life — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Dearest comrade of this natural world. Observe the order of the universe. Created not by human hands, but by spirit. Transforming all that which...	535 views Rate it
The Purse-Seine — Robinson Jeffers	Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where to spread the net, unable to...	535 views Rate it
A Child's Evening Prayer — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear In strength and health for many a year; And, O!...	533 views Rate it
Meditations In Time Of Civil War — William Butler Yeats	I Ancestral Houses SURELY among a rich man s flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down...	532 views Rate it
A Curse For A Nation — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it over the Western...	532 views Rate it
A DAUGHTERS CRY — mad hippie poet	She looked at me in the same way as she did as a child. The only thing was these tears were not the same as these tears wore my name. She looked at me now...	531 views Rate it