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It Is Much — Carl Sandburg	Women of night life amid the lights Where the line of your full, round throats Matches in gleam the glint of your eyes And the ring of your heart-deep...	318 views Rate it
the tragedy of the leaves — Charles Bukowski	I awakened to dryness and the ferns were dead, the potted plants yellow as corn; my woman was gone and the empty bottles like bled corpses surrounded...	317 views Rate it
The Loving Shepherdess — Robinson Jeffers	The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods Opened its door, a dozen children ran out And saw on the narrow road between the dense...	316 views Rate it
The Sands Are Alive With Sunshine — William Ernest Henley	The sands are alive with sunshine, The bathers lounge and throng, And out in the bay a bugle Is lilting a gallant...	315 views Rate it
Suicide — William Ernest Henley	Staring corpselike at the ceiling, See his harsh, unrazored features, Ghastly brown against the pillow, And his throat-so strangely...	314 views Rate it
Saadi — Ralph Waldo Emerson	Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern lakes fly wind-borne ducks, Browse the...	313 views Rate it
Mac Flecknoe: A Satire upon the True-blue Protestant Poet T — John Dryden	All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to...	312 views Rate it
The Funny Little fellow — James Whitcomb Riley	'Twas a Funny Little Fellow Of the very purest type, For he had a heart as mellow As an apple over ripe; And the brightest little twinkle When a funny...	312 views Rate it
E.P. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre — Ezra Pound	For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime" In the old sense. Wrong from the...	312 views Rate it
A Musical Instrument — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,...	312 views Rate it
Alphabet Poem — Edward Lear	A was once an ant, Tiny, Busy, Speedy, Shiny In the groundy Little ant! A was once a little ant, Antsy Fantsy Mantsy Antsy, Fa ntsy anty, Little...	312 views Rate it
A Bad Break — William Thomas Goodge	The preacher quoted, and the cranks Among his congregation smiled, "How sharper than a serpent's thanks It is to have a toothless...	311 views Rate it
The Wreck of the Hesperus — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wint'ry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him...	310 views Rate it
Hic Jacet — William Carlos Williams	The coroner's merry little children Have such twinkling brown eyes. Their father is not of gay men And their mother jocular in no wise, Yet the...	310 views Rate it
The Last Question: (For B. A. Bingham) — Katharine Tynan	They lifted up his weary head, Stained with a dark and bitter dew: 'How does the battle go?' he...	310 views Rate it
A Song — William Blake	Sweet dreams, form a shade O'er my lovely infant's head! Sweet dreams of pleasant streams By happy, silent, moony beams! Sweet Sleep, with soft down...	306 views Rate it
When you are with me I put by the world In having you. When I can hear and see you, All else is dark — When you are with me I put by the world In having you. When I can hear and see you, All else is dark	When you are with me I put by the world In having you. When I can hear and see you, All else is dark and dumb; or is it, Sweet, You then are all, and I...	305 views Rate it
A Spring Song And A Later — James Whitcomb Riley	She sang a song of May for me, Wherein once more I heard The mirth of my glad infancy-- The orchard's earliest bird-- The joyous breeze among the trees...	305 views Rate it
The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs — Edward Lear	The Nutcrackers sate by a plate on the table, The Sugar-tongs sate by a plate at his side; And the Nutcrackers said, 'Don't you wish we were able 'Along...	304 views Rate it
Zion — Rudyard Kipling	The Doorkeepers of Zion, They do not always stand In helmet and whole armour, With halberds in their hand; But, being sure of Zion, And all her...	303 views Rate it
A Match — Algernon Charles Swinburne	If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, ...	303 views Rate it
The Haystack in the Floods — William Morris	Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss? Yea, had she borne the dirt and rain That her own eyes might see him slain Beside the...	299 views Rate it
The Death of Robin Hood — Eugene Field	"Give me my bow," said Robin Hood, "An arrow give to me; And where 't is shot mark thou that spot, For there my grave shall...	299 views Rate it
Lara — George Gordon Lord Byron	LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. ...	298 views Rate it
The Two Glasses — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and red as blood, And one was clear as the crystal...	298 views Rate it