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A Woman's Shortcomings — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	She has laughed as softly as if she sighed, She has counted six, and over, Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried - Oh, each a worthy lover! They...	640 views Rate it
The Flitting — John Clare	I've left my own old home of homes, Green fields and every pleasant place; The summer like a stranger comes, I pause and hardly know her face. I miss the...	615 views Rate it
Blue Roses — Rudyard Kipling	Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight. She would none of all my posies-- Bade me gather her blue...	608 views Rate it
The Ladies — Rudyard Kipling	I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts, An' four o' the lot was prime. One...	597 views Rate it
Hellbound Train — Anonymous Americas	A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor, Having drunk so much he could drink no more; So he fell asleep with a troubled brain To dream that he rode on...	577 views Rate it
Autumn — Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	What doesn't enter then my slumbering mind?...	572 views Rate it
She lay as if at play — Emily Dickinson	She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away— Intending to return— But not so...	566 views Rate it
Prelude — Rudyard Kipling	I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. In deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were...	563 views Rate it
A Poem From the Collective Unconscious — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Notices from the underworld “Strident active imagination” A psychoanalyst may call them Visitations that come my way As psychic forces with their...	562 views Rate it
Butterfly Laughter — Katherine Mansfield	In the middle of our porridge plates There was a blue butterfly painted And each morning we tried who should reach the butterfly first. Then the...	556 views Rate it
The Revenge - A Ballad of the Fleet — Alfred Lord Tennyson	I...	534 views Rate it
The Owl — Alfred Lord Tennyson	When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And...	533 views Rate it
The Raggedy Man — James Whitcomb Riley	1 O the Raggedy Man! He works fer Pa; 2 An' he's the goodest man ever you saw! 3 He comes to our house every day, 4 An' waters the...	530 views Rate it
I know that He exists — Emily Dickinson	I know that He exists. Somewhere—in Silence— He has hid his rare life From our gross...	530 views Rate it
The Bird's Complaint — Allama Muhammad Iqbal	I am constantly reminded of the bygone times Those garden's springs, those chorus of...	528 views Rate it
The May Magnificat — Gerard Manley Hopkins	May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to...	523 views Rate it
Unquenchable — Judah Rollins	I'm the heiress of the Alpha and Omega a omen of what's to come, I'm on set , I'm coming I'm on rush, I'm open handed , I'm the opener , I'm on...	522 views Rate it
your pain — Cody Floodman	I don’t want to live on this earth for a long time, I just want to go home Cause nothing is truly beautiful, not this art, not even song And every...	517 views Rate it
The Queen's Rival — Sarojini Naidu	QUEEN GULNAAR sat on her ivory bed, Around her countless treasures were...	514 views Rate it
The Haunted Palace — Edgar Allan Poe	In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace- reared its head. ...	510 views Rate it
Digging — Edward Thomas	What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth, Letting down two clay pipes into the earth? The one I smoked, the other a soldier Of Blenheim, Ramillies,...	507 views Rate it
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray	The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to...	504 views Rate it
Seeing the World Upside Down — Karl Constantine FOLKES	To me right is left. So don’t ask for directions. Too old to change now. Is it a common problem? It’s lasted eighty years now. To me left is right....	494 views Rate it
A Hero — Katharine Tynan	He was so foolish, the poor lad, He made superior people smile Who knew not of the wings he had Budding and growing all the while; Nor that the laurel...	494 views Rate it
A Bad Night — Ambrose Bierce	DRAMATIS...	492 views Rate it