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Algernon — Hilaire Belloc	Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his...	418 views Rate it
The National Guardsman — Ambrose Bierce	I'm a gorgeous golden hero And my trade is taking life. Hear the twittle-twittle-tweero Of my sibillating fife And the rub-a-dub-a-dum Of my big bass...	417 views Rate it
Morning Twilight — Charles Baudelaire	Reveille was sounding on barrack-squares, and the wind of dawn blew on lighted stairs. It was the hour when a swarm of evil visions torments swarthy...	415 views Rate it
Paradise Lost: Book 09 — John Milton	No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast; permitting...	412 views Rate it
Arma Virumque — Ambrose Bierce	'Ours is a Christian Army'; so he said A regiment of bangomen who led. 'And ours a Christian Navy,' added he Who sailed a thunder-junk upon the sea....	412 views Rate it
The Tower Beyond Tragedy — Robinson Jeffers	I You'd never have thought the Queen was Helen's sister- Troy's burning-flower from Sparta, the beautiful sea-flower Cut in clear stone, crowned with the...	411 views Rate it
Moon Song — Robert William Service	A child saw in the morning skies The dissipated-looking moon, And opened wide her big blue eyes, And cried: "Look, look, my lost balloon!" And clapped her...	411 views Rate it
The Fortitude Of The North — Herman Melville	_Under the Disaster of the Second...	411 views Rate it
The Municipal Gallery Revisited — William Butler Yeats	AROUND me the images of thirty years: An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side; Casement upon trial, half hidden by the bars, Guarded; Griffith staring in...	410 views Rate it
Jogadhya Uma. — Toru Dutt	"Shell-bracelets ho! Shell-bracelets ho! Fair maids and matrons come and buy!" Along the road, in morning's glow, The pedlar raised his wonted cry. The...	409 views Rate it
What Grandpa Mouse Said — Vachel Lindsay	The moon’s a holy owl-queen. She keeps them in a jar Under her arm till evening, Then sallies forth to...	408 views Rate it
The Symphony — Sidney Lanier	"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for love," the violins said. "Of what avail the rigorous...	408 views Rate it
Honourable Employment — John Webster	O my lord, lie not idle: The chiefest action for a man of great spirit Is never to be out of action. We should think The soul was never put into the body,...	407 views Rate it
José Martí: Un Hombre Sincero — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Without a word, the pompous muse He set aside and understood: From such a withered branch he chose; To hang thereby his doctoral hood. He knew when...	406 views Rate it
A Dialogue Of Self And Soul — William Butler Yeats	i{My Soul} I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, crumbling battlement, Upon the breathless...	406 views Rate it
A Crest Ablaze — Kurt Philip Behm	Flying alone, over fury enthroned Its colors became quite clear The enemy strained, as freedom remained Covered in blood, now spent and...	405 views Rate it
Songs Set To Music: 20. Set By Mr. De Fesch — Matthew Prior	Since by ill fate I'm forced away, And snatch'd so soon from those dear arms, Against my will I must obey, And leave those sweet endearing...	405 views Rate it
Yellow — Robert William Service	One pearly day in early May I walked upon the sand And saw, say half a mile away, a man with gun in hand. A dog was cowering to his will as slow he sought...	404 views Rate it
The Tempted Soul — Robert Fuller Murray	Weak soul, by sense still led astray, Why wilt thou parley with the foe? He seeks to work thine overthrow, And thou, poor fool! dost point the...	404 views Rate it
Home Thoughts, from the Sea — Robert Browning	Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water,...	404 views Rate it
In The Harbour: Loss And Gain — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained, What I have missed with what attained, Little room do I find for...	403 views Rate it
The Lady of Shalott (1832) — Alfred Lord Tennyson	PART I On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road...	401 views Rate it
The Gnu — Hilaire Belloc	G stands for Gnu, whose weapon of defence Are long, sharp, curling horns, and common sense. To these he adds a name so short and strong, That even hardy...	400 views Rate it
Letters to Dead Imagists — Carl Sandburg	EMILY...	400 views Rate it
The Last of the Light Brigade — Rudyard Kipling	There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither food...	399 views Rate it