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Rocket Time — Douglas J. Gillert	Sometimes the screenshots appear blurred, the winter fogging camera lenses in Ukraine, details not fine enough for telescopic videos. But it’s true, I...	2,023 views Rate it
Tamar — Robinson Jeffers	I A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl, No, like a drunkard's last half-dollar Shoved on the polished bar of the eastern hill-range, Young...	2,004 views Rate it
Warfare Source: Distempers of the Human Mind — Karl Constantine FOLKES	PROLOGUE: Behold, how war and peace are so aligned. Haply appearing sometimes as comedy. At other times to sadly all remind; there’s sometimes joy...	1,970 views Rate it
Ode To Liberty — Percy Bysshe Shelley	Yet, Freedom, yet, thy banner, torn but flying, Streams like a thunder-storm against the...	1,812 views Rate it
Ukraine — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	Ukraine by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett It is said and now I believe, Only the dead have seen the end of war. There is no end it seems To the...	1,756 views Rate it
Unknown Soldiers — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	Unknown Soldiers by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett One Memorial Day made me consider The many tombs to unknown soldiers, In memoriam to the lost ...	1,751 views Rate it
One Word More — Robert Browning	TO E.B.B. ...	1,728 views Rate it
The Burning Book — Edwin Arlington Robinson	OR THE CONTENTED...	1,669 views Rate it
Glory to the Departed — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	Glory to the Departed by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett I had to be free! Now I am gone, But remember me So freedom goes on. Not an easy...	1,666 views Rate it
Peace — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	Peace by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett Wars and rumors of war it is said will be forevermore. If that is the fate of mankind, what are we to...	1,653 views Rate it
The Creation — James Weldon Johnson	And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely-- I'll make me a...	1,650 views Rate it
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...	1,623 views Rate it
Peace or Happiness…let it enfold you — Charles Bukowski	I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated. I had bad blood, a twisted mind, a precarious upbringing. I was hard as...	1,579 views Rate it
Defeat — Kahlil Gibran	Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness; You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs, And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory. Defeat, my...	1,516 views Rate it
Lancelot And Elaine — Alfred Lord Tennyson	Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a tower to the east Guarded the sacred shield of...	1,496 views Rate it
Saul — Robert Browning	I....	1,466 views Rate it
The Crosses Grow on Anzio — Audie Murphy	Oh, gather 'round me, comrades; and listen while I speak Of a war, a war, a war where hell is six feet deep. Along the shore, the cannons roar. Oh ...	1,446 views Rate it
My Mind to me a Kingdom is — Sir Edward Dyer	My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss Which God or nature hath assign'd. Though...	1,403 views Rate it
In the Height of Fashion — Henry Lawson	SO at last a toll they’ll levy For the passing fool who sings— Take the harp grown dull and heavy (With the dried blood on the strings) Let us sing, and...	1,384 views Rate it
The Day Of Doom — Michael Wigglesworth	Still was the night, Serene & Bright, when all Men sleeping lay; Calm was the season, & carnal reason thought so 'twould last for ay. Soul, take thine...	1,327 views Rate it
Duino Elegies: The First Elegy — Rainer Maria Rilke	Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I would perish in the...	1,323 views Rate it
Ruth — William Wordsworth	When Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over...	1,315 views Rate it
One Thousand On The Road — John M. Broadhead	I watched one thousand people walk along a darkened road – A road which, leading nowhere, passed nearby my poor abode. All steady and without a sound...	1,275 views Rate it
The Glory of the Garden — Rudyard Kipling	Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on the terraces and peacocks...	1,273 views Rate it
Circe — Augusta Davies Webster	The sun drops luridly into the west; darkness has raised her arms to draw him down before the time, not waiting as of wont till he has come to her...	1,249 views Rate it