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America, A Prophecy — William Blake	The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc, When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode: His food she brought in...	1,016 views Rate it
When the food is busting — Will Woj	If thy food is busting Thy hips shall be thrusting Look at me and you shall see How good thy food will be Your food is not busting It be quiet disgusting...	954 views Rate it
A Winter Night — Robert Burns	When biting Boreas, fell and doure, Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, Far south the lift,...	938 views Rate it
The Eternal Goodness — John Greenleaf Whittier	O Friends! with whom my feet have trod The quiet aisles of prayer, Glad witness to your zeal for God And love of man I...	935 views Rate it
The Highwayman — Alfred Noyes	PART ONE ...	914 views Rate it
The Men That Don't Fit In — Robert William Service	There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will....	872 views Rate it
The Kitten And Falling Leaves — William Wordsworth	THAT way look, my Infant, lo! What a pretty baby-show! See the kitten on the wall, Sporting with the leaves that fall, Withered leaves---one---two---and...	846 views Rate it
Badger — John Clare	The badger grunting on his woodland track With shaggy hide and sharp nose scrowed with black Roots in the bushes and the woods, and makes A great high...	830 views Rate it
Wine Of The Fairies — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I am drunk with the honey wine Of the moon-unfolded eglantine, Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls. The bats, the dormice, and the moles Sleep in the...	827 views Rate it
Beehive B-Flat Rhapsody — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Beehive B-flat z’s The chords of B’s are humming… The drones’ symphony. Their Queen Bee’s Composition… Now abuzz in my waxed ears. Follicles of...	812 views Rate it
The Cremation Of Sam McGee — Robert William Service	There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your...	805 views Rate it
Marmion: a Christmas Poem — Sir Walter Scott	Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deem'd the new-born year The...	791 views Rate it
The Sensitive Plant — Percy Bysshe Shelley	PART 1. A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light. And closed them...	774 views Rate it
Salutation — Ezra Pound	O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable, I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun, I have seen them with untidy...	765 views Rate it
Hart-Leap Well — William Wordsworth	The Knight had ridden down from Wensley Moor With the slow motion of a summer's cloud, And now, as he approached a vassal's door, "Bring forth another...	760 views Rate it
A Poet's Home — Charles Harpur	HERE in this lonely rill-engirdled spot, The world forgetting, by the world forgot, With one vowed to me with beloved lips How sweet to draw, as hiddenly...	753 views Rate it
The Building of the Ship — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!" ...	737 views Rate it
The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God — John Milton Hayes	There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of...	734 views Rate it
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell — William Schwenck Gilbert	'Twas on the shores that round our coast From Deal to Ramsgate span, That I found alone on a piece of stone An elderly naval...	732 views Rate it
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ancestor, And God was thanked for liberty. I have...	730 views Rate it
A Tear And A Smile — Khalil Gibran	I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart For the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes To flow from my every part...	725 views Rate it
The Prodigal Son — James Weldon Johnson	Young man— Young man— Your arm’s too short to box with...	707 views Rate it
The Homes Of England — Felicia Dorothea Hemans	The stately homes of England How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their green sward...	707 views Rate it
A Certain Lady — Dorothy Parker	Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head, And drink your rushing words with eager lips, And paint my mouth for you a fragrant red, And trace your...	701 views Rate it
The Brewing Of Soma — John Greenleaf Whittier	The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke Up through the green wood curled; 'Bring honey from the hollow oak, Bring milky sap,' the brewers spoke, In the...	686 views Rate it