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My Last Duchess — Robert Browning	FERRARA....	475 views Rate it
Patterns — Amy Lowell	I walk down the garden-paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff,...	468 views Rate it
Cassandra — Louise Bogan	To me, one silly task is like another. I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride. This flesh will never give a child its mother,— Song, like a...	463 views Rate it
Twice a Week the Winter Thorough — Alfred Edward Housman	Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man's...	458 views Rate it
Dreams — John Dryden	Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes; When monarch Reason sleeps, this mimic wakes: Compounds a medley of disjointed things, A mob of cobblers, and...	456 views Rate it
Sweet—safe—Houses — Emily Dickinson	Sweet—safe—Houses—Glad—gay—Houses— Sealed so stately tight— Lids of Steel—on Lids of Marble— Locking Bare feet...	454 views Rate it
Think No More, Lad — Alfred Edward Housman	Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly: Why should men make haste to die? Empty heads and tongues a-talking Make the rough road easy walking, And the...	453 views Rate it
Farewell — Robert Louis Stevenson	FAREWELL, and when forth I through the Golden Gates to Golden Isles Steer without smiling, through the sea of smiles, Isle upon isle, in the seas of the...	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
Disabled — Wilfred Owen	He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys...	445 views Rate it
Requiescat — Matthew Arnold	Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did...	443 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...	441 views Rate it
Love Among The Ruins — Robert Browning	I....	440 views Rate it
Halloween — Robert Burns	Upon that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the...	439 views Rate it
The Gardener XXIV: Do Not Keep to Yourself — Rabindranath Tagore	Do not keep to yourself the secret of your heart, my friend! Say it to me, only to me, in secret. You who smile so gently, softly whisper, my...	438 views Rate it
A Tanka Poet’s Confession — Karl Constantine FOLKES	I am good at it. Intellectual rubbish. Don’t ever quote me. Unseemly Tanka poet. Besmirched by lines not...	436 views Rate it
Xantippe — Amy Levy	(A...	435 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
Here Lies The Blithe Spring — Thomas Dekker	HERE lies the blithe Spring, Who first taught birds to sing, Yet in April herself fell a-crying: Then May growing hot, A sweating sickness she got, ...	432 views Rate it
Terminus — Ralph Waldo Emerson	It is time to be old, To take in sail:-- The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Come to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! No farther...	431 views Rate it
The Little Children — Francis Ledwidge	Hunger points a bony finger To the workhouse on the hill, But the little children linger While there's flowers to gather still For my sunny window...	431 views Rate it
Rest — Christina Georgina Rossetti	O EARTH, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh...	428 views Rate it
The Year — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we...	427 views Rate it
Her Face And Brow — James Whitcomb Riley	Ah, help me! but her face and brow Are lovelier than lilies are Beneath the light of moon and star That smile as they are smiling now-- White lilies in a...	423 views Rate it
The Masquerade — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Look in the eyes of trouble with a smile, Extend your hand and do not be afraid. ‘Tis but a friend who comes to masquerade, And test your faith and...	422 views Rate it