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Deleted — Steven Dupere	Deleted...	392 views Rate it
Ducks — Frederick William (FW) Harvey	(To E.M., Who drew them in Holzminden Prison) ...	392 views Rate it
Yippee, School’s Out! — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Yeah, yeah, yeah. No school today. Guys, let’s make hay. What’d ya say! It’s a holiday. Much time to play. We can sleep late. Don’t watch the...	391 views Rate it
Ode to Duty — William Wordsworth	STERN Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove; Thou, who art...	389 views Rate it
Human Life — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	If dead, we cease to be ; if total gloom Swallow up life's brief flash for aye, we fare As summer-gusts, of sudden birth and doom, Whose sound...	387 views Rate it
Fireflies — Rabindranath Tagore	My fancies are fireflies, — Specks of living light twinkling in the...	387 views Rate it
The Spinner — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Oh, what was it he meant By his question as he went? 'I am making a loom, 'T will be up in April's bloom; If you think it may be, Spin for...	386 views Rate it
The Cruel Moon — Robert Graves	The cruel Moon hangs out of reach Up above the shadowy beech. Her face is stupid, but her eye Is small and sharp and very sly. Nurse says the Moon can...	385 views Rate it
The English Flag — Rudyard Kipling	Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when it fell the crowds...	381 views Rate it
Flanders Fields — Elizabeth Daryush	Here the scanted daisy glows Glorious as the carmined rose; Here the hill-top's verdure mean Fair is with unfading green; Here, where sorrow still must...	381 views Rate it
A Lament — Charles Kingsley	The merry merry lark was up and singing, And the hare was out and feeding on the lea; And the merry merry bells below were ringing, When my child's laugh...	381 views Rate it
Animal Crackers — Christopher Morley	Animal crackers and cocoa to drink, That is the finest of suppers I think; When I'm grown up and can have what I please I think I shall always insist upon...	380 views Rate it
A Night-Piece By Millet — Algernon Charles Swinburne	Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free Heaven awhile, for all the wrath of waking Wind and...	380 views Rate it
The Politics of Crime and Punishment — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Congressional politics. Devoid of ethics. Is the politics of crime. A human illness. And crime that goes unpunished. Congressional politics. Gone...	379 views Rate it
I Saw Thee Weep — George Gordon Lord Byron	I saw thee weep--the big bright tear Came o'er that eye of blue; And then methought it did appear A violet dropping dew: I saw thee smile--the sapphire's...	378 views Rate it
Piping Down the Valleys Wild — William Blake	Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to...	375 views Rate it
Salutation The Third — Ezra Pound	Let us deride the smugness of 'The Times': GUFFAW! So much for the gagged reviewers, It will pay them when the worms are wriggling in their vitals; These...	375 views Rate it
The Deserted House — Alfred Lord Tennyson	Life and Thought have gone away Side by side, Leaving door and windows wide. Careless tenants...	375 views Rate it
The Man from Iron Bark — Andrew Barton Paterson	It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town, He wandered over street and park, he wandered up and down. He loitered here he loitered there,...	374 views Rate it
Summer Sun — Robert Louis Stevenson	Great is the sun, and wide he goes Through empty heaven with repose; And in the blue and glowing days More thick than rain he showers his...	372 views Rate it
Dizain — Andrew Lang	As, to the pipe, with rhythmic feet In windings of some old-world dance, The smiling couples cross and meet, Join hands, and then in line advance, So, to...	372 views Rate it
The Palace of Art — Alfred Lord Tennyson	I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is...	369 views Rate it
Is Life Worth Living? — Alfred Austin	Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here; So long as May of April...	369 views Rate it
De M. Antonio — Robert Louis Stevenson	NOW Antoninus, in a smiling age, Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage. The rounded days and the safe years he sees, Nor fears death's water...	367 views Rate it
Death Of Labour — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Methought a great wind swept across the earth, And all the toilers perished. Then I saw Pale terror blanch the rosy face of mirth, And careless eyes grow...	366 views Rate it