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Fare Thee Well — George Gordon Lord Byron	Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well: Even though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart...	455 views Rate it
The Rocking Chair — Betsy Wokersien Stephens	She gathers her thoughts as she rocks in the chair And stares out the window into the thin air Alone with the memories that dance in her mind The old...	453 views Rate it
The Holy Grail — Alfred Lord Tennyson	From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called The Pure, Had passed into the...	453 views Rate it
To A Gentleman And Lady On The Death Of The Lady's Brother And Sister, And A Child Of The Name Of Avis, Aged One Year — Phillis Wheatley	ON Death's domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies: With pensive mind I search the drear abode, Where the great conqu'ror has...	452 views Rate it
A Child Asleep — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures, to make room for...	451 views Rate it
Looking-Glass River — Robert Louis Stevenson	Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam-- O the clean gravel! O the smooth...	448 views Rate it
A Bachelor — Robert William Service	'Why keep a cow when I can buy,' Said he, 'the milk I need,' I wanted to spit in his eye Of selfishness and greed; But did not, for...	447 views Rate it
Love's Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley	The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the...	446 views Rate it
Christmas Everywhere — Phillips Brooks	Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine, Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine, Christmas where snow...	441 views Rate it
Christabel — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	PART...	439 views Rate it
Proverbs — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	'TIS easier far a wreath to bind, Than a good owner fort to find. ----- I KILL'D a thousand flies overnight, Yet was waken'd by one, as soon as twas...	438 views Rate it
Albert and the Lion — Marriott Edgar	There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went there with young Albert, their...	437 views Rate it
OPEN THE BOX — mad hippie poet	Here I am in a square box; I am so scared I am looking for a way out. All I can do is walk about. Why can't someone come and save me? I no longer want to...	436 views Rate it
The Holy Fair — Robert Burns	Upon a simmer Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn An' snuff the caller air. The risin' sun owre Galston muirs Wi'...	435 views Rate it
Poem In October — Dylan Thomas	It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore ...	434 views Rate it
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture — William Cowper	Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine--thy own sweet smiles I see, ...	434 views Rate it
Columbus Cheney — Edgar Lee Masters	This weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the millions of children not yet born, As well as for us? Are they not non-existent, or cells asleep...	434 views Rate it
The Mother-Lodge — Rudyard Kipling	There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, Conductor-Sargent, Our...	432 views Rate it
The shadows of people in the street. — A J C	The shadows of people. As I drift into my dreams, like the clouds floating by way up high in the sky, I can see a sea of people talking, but no one is...	431 views Rate it
The Future of Forestry — Clive Staples Lewis	How will the legend of the age of trees Feel, when the last tree falls in England? When the concrete spreads and the town conquers The country’s heart;...	430 views Rate it
Youth and Beauty — William Carlos Williams	I bought a dishmop-- having no daughter-- for they had twisted fine ribbons of shining copper about white twine and made a tousled head of it,...	428 views Rate it
I Sing The Body Electric — Walt Whitman	I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to...	428 views Rate it
Dorothy Day- Patron Saint Of The Working Class. — Liam Ó Comáin	Dear Dorothy, as an authentic Revolutionary of God, Please intercede for All of humanity So that the love of Christ- He for us and we for Him- Will...	427 views Rate it
The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe — Gerard Manley Hopkins	Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake;...	426 views Rate it
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