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Slickens — Ambrose Bierce	DRAMATIS PERSONAE. HAYSEED _a Granger_ NOZZLE _a Miner_ RINGDIVVY _a Statesman_ FEEGOBBLE _a Lawyer_ JUNKET _a Committee_ _Scene_-Yuba...	133 views Rate it
A Cabin Tale — Paul Laurence Dunbar	THE YOUNG MASTER ASKS FOR A...	132 views Rate it
The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale -- Unfinished — John Keats	I. In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool, There stood, or hover'd, tremulous in the air, A faery city 'neath the potent rule Of Emperor Elfinan; fam'd...	132 views Rate it
Death — John Clare	Why should man's high aspiring mind Burn in him with so proud a breath, When all his haughty views can find In this world yields to death? The fair, the...	132 views Rate it
Communism — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	When my blood flows calm as a purling river, When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway, It is then that I vow we must part for ever, That I will...	132 views Rate it
Psalms — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	I I seem to be Sundered from Thee, Thou Harmony of all creation. Am I disowned For talents loaned And useless hid in vain probation? Now powerless, In...	132 views Rate it
"Gods plan?" — Andrea Gomez	Gods plan” Who is to say he didn’t live off of what time was given to him? So maybe he isn’t has special as they portray him to be? Maybe he is living...	131 views Rate it
The Three Queens — John Boyle O'Reilly	IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty, When Morning hung with rapture on her breast; When every sentient life paid love for duty, And every...	131 views Rate it
The Calm — Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Brothers, have you observed the calm? Even the leaves of that symbolic palm That denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirred By the...	131 views Rate it
The Age of Reason — Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Whene'er I read some savage tale Of punishment devised By tyrants in an olden day, When serfs were victimised, I reverently tell myself: 'Thank God, we're...	131 views Rate it
The Birth Of The Rail — Ambrose Bierce	DRAMATIS PERSONAE LELAND, THE KID _a Road Agent_ COWBOY CHARLEY _Same Line of Business_ HAPPY HUNTY _Ditto in All Respects_ SOOTYMUG _a...	131 views Rate it
Grandmother’s Teaching — Alfred Austin	``Grandmother dear, you do not know; you have lived the old-world life, Under the twittering eaves of home, sheltered from storm and strife; Rocking...	131 views Rate it
The Stockyard Liar — William Henry Ogilvie	If ever you're handling a rough one There's bound to be perched on the rails Of the Stockyard some grizzled old tough one Whose flow of advice never...	130 views Rate it
The Gulf of All Human Possessions — Jonathan Swift	Come hither, and behold the fruits, Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits. Take wise advice, and look behind, Bring all past actions to thy mind. Here you...	130 views Rate it
To Rulers and Judges — Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin	He's risen - Highest God - to do the judgment, fair, Of the earthly ones in their whole band; How long - he sad - how long will you else spare The unjust...	130 views Rate it
John Smith — Eugene Field	To-day I strayed in Charing Cross as wretched as could be With thinking of my home and friends across the tumbling sea; There was no water in my eyes, but...	130 views Rate it
It All Will Come Out Right — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust. In restless youth I railed at fate With...	130 views Rate it
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 — Christopher Smart	For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a...	130 views Rate it
Amours de Voyage, Canto IV — Arthur Hugh Clough	Eastward, or Northward, or West? I wander and ask as I wander; Weary, yet eager and sure, Where shall I come to my love? Whitherward hasten to seek her?...	130 views Rate it
Oh, Mr. President — Kurt Philip Behm	Oh, Mr. President your agenda has failed Oh, Mr. President the unfortunate wail Oh, Mr. President your tongue has been...	129 views Rate it
England in 1819 — Percy Bysshe Shelley	An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,-- Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,--mud from a muddy spring,-- ...	129 views Rate it
Ch 01 Manner of Kings Story 15 — Sa di	A vezier, who had been removed from his post, entered the circle of dervishes and the blessing of their society took such effect upon him that he became...	128 views Rate it
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire — George Gordon Lord Byron	'I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew! Than one of these same metre...	128 views Rate it
A False Prophecy — Ambrose Bierce	Dom Pedro, Emperor of far Brazil (Whence coffee comes and the three-cornered nut), They say that you're imperially ill, And threatened with paralysis....	128 views Rate it
Sometimes — Charlotte Cohen	Sometimes a shorter poem speaks best... on justice, power, and ...	127 views Rate it

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