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Autumn — Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	What doesn't enter then my slumbering mind?...	572 views Rate it
His Excellency General Washington — Phillis Wheatley	Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes...	568 views Rate it
All The Little Hoofprints — Robinson Jeffers	Farther up the gorge the sea's voice fainted and ceased. We heard a new noise far away ahead of us, vague and metallic, it might have been some unpleasant...	565 views Rate it
Leda And The Swan — William Butler Yeats	A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her...	562 views Rate it
Ode: Intimations of Immortality — William Wordsworth	I...	561 views Rate it
Not they who soar — Paul Laurence Dunbar	Not they who soar, but they who plod Their rugged way, unhelped, to God Are heroes; they who higher fare, And, flying, fan the upper air, Miss all the...	560 views Rate it
Book Of Love - One More Pair — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	LOVE is indeed a glorious prize! What fairer guerdon meets our eyes?-- Though neither wealth nor power are thine, A very hero thou dost shine. As of the...	556 views Rate it
The Dinner-Party — Amy Lowell	Fish...	553 views Rate it
The Oaks of Midland's Valley — Gregory Baranoff	The Oaks of Midland’s Valley Dedicated to Paul and Louise Squibb, Ben and Kay Rich and Carl and Kathy Munger ...	547 views Rate it
A Song of Honour — Ralph Hodgson	I climbed a hill as light fell short, And rooks came home in scramble sort, And filled the trees and flapped and fought And sang themselves to sleep; ...	547 views Rate it
Drum-Taps — Walt Whitman	Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war; But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd, and I resign'd ...	547 views Rate it
The Wood — Charlotte Brontë	BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the West Will light us on our devious way; ...	544 views Rate it
The Heart Of The Sourdough — Robert William Service	There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon, There where the sullen sun-dogs glare in the snow-bright, bitter noon, And the...	543 views Rate it
Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott	O young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode...	539 views Rate it
The Debutante — Sommer Rains	The Debutante Life without friends is empty and bleak. like the pit of quicksand That they all gather round sitting, staring, ...	533 views Rate it
From Ajax Dirge — James Shirley	The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armor against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and...	533 views Rate it
Meditations In Time Of Civil War — William Butler Yeats	I Ancestral Houses SURELY among a rich man s flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down...	532 views Rate it
The Box — Lascelles Abercrombie	Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye, Around about the wondrous days of yore, They came across a kind of box Bound up with chains and locked...	531 views Rate it
The Revenge - A Ballad of the Fleet — Alfred Lord Tennyson	I...	531 views Rate it
Hero — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	Max Burchett Isn’t it what we all want to be? Someone who all can see Is stronger and braver, Man of steel or greater. Could that be you, or me?...	529 views Rate it
A Song Of Suicide — Robert William Service	Deeming that I were better dead, "How shall I kill myself?" I said. Thus mooning by the river Seine I sought extinction without pain, When on a bridge I...	525 views Rate it
Base Details — Siegfried Sassoon	If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. You'd see me with...	523 views Rate it
Unquenchable — Judah Rollins	I'm the heiress of the Alpha and Omega a omen of what's to come, I'm on set , I'm coming I'm on rush, I'm open handed , I'm the opener , I'm on...	522 views Rate it
Excerpts from Cantos I and II — D. S. Fly	A Procession on Saint Martin’s Eve: Arrival 3 And then upon Saint Martin’s Eve A blinking stream of lights Appeared before my glazéd eyes And,...	520 views Rate it
your pain — Cody Floodman	I don’t want to live on this earth for a long time, I just want to go home Cause nothing is truly beautiful, not this art, not even song And every...	517 views Rate it