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The Highwayman — Alfred Noyes	PART ONE ...	918 views Rate it
The Charge Of The Light Brigade — Alfred Lord Tennyson	HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 'Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge...	902 views Rate it
There was a young soldier called Edsar — Spike Milligan	There was a young soldier called Edsar When wanted was always in bed sir: One morning at one They fired a gun And Edsar, in bed sir, was dead...	902 views Rate it
To the University of Cambridge — Phillis Wheatley	While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, The muses promise to assist my pen; 'Twas not long since I left my native shore The land of errors, and...	892 views Rate it
The Divine Right Of Kings — Edgar Allan Poe	The only king by right divine Is Ellen King, and were she mine I'd strive for liberty no more, But hug the glorious chains I...	872 views Rate it
The Eve of St. John — Sir Walter Scott	The baron of Smaylho'me rose with day, He spurr'd his courser on, Without stop or stay, down the rocky way, That leads to...	838 views Rate it
A Dead Boche — Robert Graves	To you who’d read my songs of War And only hear of blood and fame, I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before) ”War’s Hell!” and if you doubt the same, ...	836 views Rate it
Badger — John Clare	The badger grunting on his woodland track With shaggy hide and sharp nose scrowed with black Roots in the bushes and the woods, and makes A great high...	831 views Rate it
On Passing The New Menin Gate — Siegfried Sassoon	Who will remember, passing through this Gate, the unheroic dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,- Those doomed,...	793 views Rate it
Cold Iron — Rudyard Kipling	Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade. "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, "But Iron...	783 views Rate it
The Isles of Greece — George Gordon Lord Byron	The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos...	776 views Rate it
Sleep And Poetry — John Keats	As I lay in my bed slepe full unmete Was unto me, but why that I ne might Rest I ne wist, for there n'as erthly wight [As I suppose] had more of hertis...	770 views Rate it
God lay dead in heaven; — Stephen Crane	God lay dead in heaven; Angels sang the hymn of the end; Purple winds went moaning, Their wings drip-dripping With blood That fell upon the earth. ...	762 views Rate it
The Mask Of Anarchy — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I. As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of...	757 views Rate it
The Land — Rudyard Kipling	When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him Hobdenius-a Briton of the Clay,...	754 views Rate it
Sonnet LXXXIII. The Sea View — Charlotte Smith	THE upland shepherd, as reclined he lies On the soft turf that clothes the mountain brow, Marks the bright sea-line mingling with the skies; Or from his...	747 views Rate it
The Roman Centurion's Song — Rudyard Kipling	Roman Occupation of Britain, A.D....	743 views Rate it
Pandemic of Pandemic! — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Call it pandemic. Pandemic of Pandemic! Man of flesh and blood. Bartering with unknown realms. His body, soul, and spirit. Call it pandemic. Our...	723 views Rate it
Dulce et Decorum Est — Wilfred Owen	1 Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, 2 Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, 3 Till on the haunting flares we turned out...	712 views Rate it
The Prodigal Son — James Weldon Johnson	Young man— Young man— Your arm’s too short to box with...	709 views Rate it
Sleep well... — Nobody Nose	Sleep well pretty Baby I so want to sing to you As I lay you down From my arms Onto your bed I'd never let go of you From my embrace, Love where art thou?...	707 views Rate it
Frustration — Dorothy Parker	If I had a shiny gun, I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folk who give me...	707 views Rate it
Carry On — Robert William Service	It's easy to fight when everything's right, And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in...	695 views Rate it
All the World's a Stage — William Shakespeare	All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,...	686 views Rate it
Choked Truth — Ludy Bührs	With shrines merely built as a camouflage for not revealing the causing acts, the past masks in sanity misfits, and future hardships lie...	668 views Rate it