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The Arab's Farewell To His Horse — Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	MY beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye; Fret not to roam the desert now,...	668 views Rate it
How to Die — Siegfried Sassoon	Dark clouds are smouldering into red While down the craters morning burns. The dying soldier shifts his head To watch the glory that returns; He lifts...	665 views Rate it
When a Good Man Goes to War — Joseph M Mitterando	When a good man goes to war, he knows NOT what lies in store. Reluctantly, he marches on, until the battlefield he reaches, then fights until he's won....	646 views Rate it
A Dialogue-Anthem — George Herbert	Alas, poor Death! Where is thy glory? Where is thy famous force, thy ancient...	646 views Rate it
The Bear — Robert Frost	The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover And its chokecherries lips to kiss good-by, Then lets it snap...	645 views Rate it
A Poet's Epitaph — William Wordsworth	Art thou a Statist in the van Of public conflicts trained and bred? --First learn to love one living man; 'Then' may'st thou think upon the...	641 views Rate it
Reconciliation — Walt Whitman	WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of...	640 views Rate it
We Must Face History — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Facing history of those defaced in history. Those ghettoed by racial segregation, wearing badges of dishonor imposed upon them. Those...	635 views Rate it
Muiopotmos, Or The Fate Of The Butterflie — Edmund Spenser	I SING of deadly dolorous debate, Stir'd vp through wrathfull Nemesis despight, Betwixt two mightie ones of great estate, Drawne into armes, and proofe of...	626 views Rate it
Coda — Dorothy Parker	There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine; This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is...	625 views Rate it
Adelgitha — Thomas Campbell	The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer of her...	624 views Rate it
Song Of The Redwood-Tree — Walt Whitman	A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection--a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing--or hamadryads...	621 views Rate it
Fast rode the knight — Stephen Crane	Fast rode the knight With spurs, hot and reeking, Ever waving an eager sword, "To save my lady!" Fast rode the knight, And leaped from saddle to war....	619 views Rate it
A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they...	618 views Rate it
A Watch In The Night — Algernon Charles Swinburne	Watchman, what of the night? - Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. Only the balefires are bright, ...	618 views Rate it
The Flitting — John Clare	I've left my own old home of homes, Green fields and every pleasant place; The summer like a stranger comes, I pause and hardly know her face. I miss the...	616 views Rate it
Rabbi Ben Ezra — Robert Browning	Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith 'A whole I planned,...	607 views Rate it
Sic transit gloria mundi — Emily Dickinson	"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine...	604 views Rate it
Lest we forget — Royston	We remember them. They were so brave. The price they paid. The life they gave. For by their death they bought us peace. They gave their life that wars...	602 views Rate it
A Worker Reads History — Bertolt Brecht	Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone? And Babylon, so...	601 views Rate it
The Grey Monk — William Blake	1 'I die, I die!' the Mother said, 2 'My children die for lack of bread. 3 What more has the merciless Tyrant said?' 4 The Monk sat down...	588 views Rate it
An Indian Love Song — Sarojini Naidu	He...	587 views Rate it
Soldier An' Sailor Too — Rudyard Kipling	As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the ~Crocodile~, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style. 'E was scrapin' the paint from off...	585 views Rate it
There is a word — Emily Dickinson	There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man— It hurls its barbed syllables And is mute again— But where it fell The saved will tell On...	585 views Rate it
The Ballad of Dick Turpin — Alfred Noyes	The daylight moon looked quietly down Through the gathering dusk on London town A smock-frocked yokel hobbled along By Newgate, humming a country...	582 views Rate it