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Success — Robert William Service	You ask me what I call Success - It is, I wonder,...	277 views Rate it
Youth And Age — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying With NATURE, HOPE, and POESY, ...	276 views Rate it
The Grasshopper — Abraham Cowley	Happy insect, what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And...	276 views Rate it
Away — James Whitcomb Riley	I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead--. He is just away! With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand He has wandered into an unknown...	274 views Rate it
Isaac and Archibald — Edwin Arlington Robinson	(To Mrs. Henry...	273 views Rate it
Cactus Seed — Lola Ridge	Radiant notes piercing my narrow-chested room, beating down through my ceiling— smeared with unshapen belly-prints of dreams drifted out of old smokes—...	272 views Rate it
Where Memories Can Run — Kurt Philip Behm	I like old people that look old and young people that look young Concepts that are original laughter and...	271 views Rate it
You Cant Write a Poem about McDonald's — Ronald Wallace	“You Canʼt Write a Poem about McDonaldʼs” Noon. Hunger is the only thing singing in my belly. I walk through the blossoming cherry trees on the...	271 views Rate it
Among School Children — William Butler Yeats	I WALK through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books...	271 views Rate it
The Bridge: The Dance — Harold Hart Crane	The swift red flesh, a winter king— Who squired the glacier woman down the sky? She ran the neighing canyons all the spring; She spouted arms; she rose...	271 views Rate it
Da Comica Man — Thomas Augustine Daly	Giacobbe Finelli so funny, O! My! By tweestin’ hees face an’ by weenkin’ hees eye He maka you laugh teell you theenk you weell die. He don’t gotta say...	270 views Rate it
The Seafarer — Ezra Pound	(From the early Anglo-Saxon...	269 views Rate it
Resolution and Independence — William Wordsworth	I...	267 views Rate it
Before the Mirror — Algernon Charles Swinburne	I. WHITE ROSE in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden rows...	267 views Rate it
Going Blind — Rainer Maria Rilke	She sat just like the others at the table. But on second glance, she seemed to hold her cup a little differently as she picked it up. She smiled once. It...	265 views Rate it
The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk — Dorothy Parker	I was seventy-seven, come August, I shall shortly be losing my bloom; I've experienced zephyr and raw gust And (symbolical) flood and...	265 views Rate it
Tam O'Shanter — Robert Burns	When chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neebors neebors meet, As market-days are wearing late, And folk begin to tak the gate; While we sit...	264 views Rate it
Yankee Doodle — Vachel Lindsay	This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more...	263 views Rate it
The Star Splitter — Robert Frost	`You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his hands, he looks in on me Busy outdoors by...	263 views Rate it
Jenny — Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Lazy laughing languid Jenny, Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea, Whose head upon my knee to-night Rests for a while, as if grown light With all our...	263 views Rate it
M y Emotions — Val Cabral	It's funny how you live day by day A different mood and a different way. You cry and laugh, then you stop to think - Do all these actions have a...	262 views Rate it
The Skeleton in Armor — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	"Speak! speak! thou fearful guest! Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! Wrapt not in eastern balms, But with...	262 views Rate it
Sonnet 54 — Edmund Spenser	Of this worlds theatre in which we stay, My love like the spectator ydly sits Beholding me that all the pageants play, Disguysing diversly my troubled...	262 views Rate it
I years had been from home, — Emily Dickinson	I years had been from home, And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw...	260 views Rate it
On Laws — Kahlil Gibran	Then the lawyer said, But what of our Laws, master? And he answered; You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking...	259 views Rate it

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