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Alluring Andaman Sea — William He	Alluring Andaman Sea By William He The tails swirling and bows bending, Kites tethered to surfers gliding true, Like giant hawks arcing high, ...	305 views Rate it
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, The — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	IN SEVEN...	292 views Rate it
The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home — Robert Herrick	To the Right Honourable Mildmay, Earl of...	280 views Rate it
Ode On Intimations Of Immortality — William Wordsworth	From Recollections of Early Childhood The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be ...	269 views Rate it
Easter Communion — Gerard Manley Hopkins	Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast: God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips. You striped in secret with breath-taking whips, Those crooked...	269 views Rate it
Dormition — Emilio Phoenicio	A dormitory for the restless Where desires lay dormant But the sleepless nights will have a dormition. The ever watchful shall find eternal respite. ...	260 views Rate it
Christmas Trees — Robert Frost	The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet...	253 views Rate it
Christmas in India — Rudyard Kipling	Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow -- As the women in the village grind the corn, And the parrots seek the riverside, each calling...	249 views Rate it
Jack and Joan — Thomas Campion	Jack and Joan they think no ill, But loving live, and merry still; Do their week-days' work, and pray Devoutly on the holy day: Skip and trip it on the...	245 views Rate it
The Adirondacs — Ralph Waldo Emerson	A JOURNAL. DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-TRAVELLERS IN AUGUST,...	233 views Rate it
M'Fingal - Canto II — John Trumbull	The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, Lash'd on his downward car of state. And now...	227 views Rate it
Robin Hood — John Keats	NO! those days are gone away, And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried all Under the down-trodden pall Ofthe leaves of many years: Many...	226 views Rate it
16. Of Gluttony and Feasting — Sebastian Brant	He shows a fool in every wise Who day and night forever hies From feast to feat to fill his paunch And make his figure round and staunch, As though his...	225 views Rate it
M'Fingal - Canto III — John Trumbull	Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan of Tory friends. When sudden...	223 views Rate it
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine — Emily Dickinson	Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my...	218 views Rate it
the quilter's hand — conductor	Sunflower seeds embroidered And sewn to the ground in rows. of beds of browns and rosy reds. Pinned down by the sun's rays. With warm golden threads...	217 views Rate it
The Idle Shepherd Boys — William Wordsworth	The valley rings with mirth and joy; Among the hills the echoes play A never never ending song, To welcome in the May. The magpie chatters with delight;...	215 views Rate it
Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood — William Wordsworth	THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell'd in celestial light, The glory...	213 views Rate it
Lent — George Herbert	Welcome dear feast of Lent: who loves not thee, He loves not Temperance, or Authority, But is compos'd of passion. The Scriptures bid us fast; the...	209 views Rate it
A Dreamer’s Chamber Music — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Behold, the dreamer dreameth ! Composing chamber music. From deep recesses of the mind, Emerging something rustic . Nocturnal nocturnes in my...	207 views Rate it
Time's Revenges — Robert Browning	I've a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books I write; They find such favour in his sight That he slaughters you...	205 views Rate it
Rosemary — Marianne Moore	Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary - Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly - born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a...	200 views Rate it
An Ode to the Family SUV — David Lechner	An Ode to the Family SUV D. Lechner, Oct 2021 Although it cannot walk or talk, it was still a member of the family. It went on all the special...	197 views Rate it
Waring — Robert Browning	Mr. Alfred Domett, C.M.G., author of Ranolf and Amohia, ``full of descriptions of New Zealand scenery.] I. ...	195 views Rate it
America’s Journey Towards Greatness — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Nations rise and nations fall All struggling for greatness None is found without default All have weaknesses and strengths. The paths that lead to...	194 views Rate it