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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
Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII — Walt Whitman	I Celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to...	513 views Rate it
The Lark Ascending — George Meredith	He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake, All intervolv’d and...	513 views Rate it
The Haunted Palace — Edgar Allan Poe	In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace- reared its head. ...	511 views Rate it
Admirals All — Sir Henry Newbolt	Effingham, Grenville, Raleigh, Drake, Here's to the bold and free! Benbow, Collingwood, Byron, Blake, Hail to the Kings of the Sea! Admirals all, for...	508 views Rate it
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray	The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to...	506 views Rate it
A Mother’s Grief — Melody Martinez	In the silent chambers of a mother's soul, A tempest rages, beyond control. Her heart a battlefield, of grief and pain, Where echoes of loss endlessly...	501 views Rate it
Hate Not - Fear Not — Robert Graves	Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must...	497 views Rate it
A Wounded Deer—leaps highest — Emily Dickinson	A Wounded Deer—leaps highest— I've heard the Hunter tell— 'Tis but the Ecstasy of death— And then the Brake is...	495 views Rate it
A Hero — Katharine Tynan	He was so foolish, the poor lad, He made superior people smile Who knew not of the wings he had Budding and growing all the while; Nor that the laurel...	494 views Rate it
Truth Falsified By Lies — Karl Constantine FOLKES	When war is waging And no one trusts each other, First casualty That aborts the hope of peace Is Truth — falsified by...	493 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,...	491 views Rate it
An Octopus — Marianne Moore	ice. Deceptively reserved and flat, it lies 'in grandeur and in mass' beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes; dots of cyclamen-red and maroon on its...	491 views Rate it
The Confessional — Robert Browning	I....	490 views Rate it
Simples — James Joyce	O bella bionda, Sei come...	488 views Rate it
Leila And Athelstan, Our Loving Mom and Dad (In Celebration of Your 50th Wedding Anniversary) — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Two score years and ten of yesterday, You two did tie the knot: Whereof you spun your golden thread, And made the land fertile. It was in Nineteen...	487 views Rate it
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother — John Greenleaf Whittier	Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern...	485 views Rate it
Abide With Me — Henry Francis Lyte	Abide with us: for it is towards evening, and the day is far spent. -- Luke...	484 views Rate it
Iron — Carl Sandburg	Guns, Long, steel guns, Pointed from the war ships In the name of the war god. Straight, shining, polished guns, Clambered over with jackies in white...	484 views Rate it
Extinguish Thou My Eyes — Rainer Maria Rilke	Extinguish Thou my eyes:I still can see Thee, deprive my ears of sound:I still can hear Thee, and without feet I still can come to Thee, and without voice...	484 views Rate it
The Veteran — Dorothy Parker	When I was young and bold and strong, Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong! My plume on high, my flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. "Come...	482 views Rate it
The Challenge of Thor — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer! Here in my Northland, My fastness and fortress, Reign I forever! Here amid icebergs Rule I the...	480 views Rate it
Soldier — Steve Dupere	Redemption comes and goes for the broken, A life we lived of wounds unspoken. We’ve spilled our blood for another man’s glory. Now we live to tell our...	479 views Rate it
What The Scare-Crow Said — Vachel Lindsay	The dim-winged spirits of the night Do fear and serve me well. They creep from out the hedges of The garden where I...	477 views Rate it
Remembrances — John Clare	Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh on I tried to call them back but unbidden they...	476 views Rate it