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Song For The Luddites — George Gordon Lord Byron	I. As the Liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Will die fighting, or live free, And down with all...	473 views Rate it
The Raven Chides Its Own Blackness — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A satiric tale. Is this tale of parable. Warped in irony. Oh, the cruelty. Weapons of mass destruction. Oh, what disaster! Oh, what a glory. ...	472 views Rate it
Soldier, Soldier — Rudyard Kipling	"Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don't you march with my true love?" "We're fresh from off the ship an' 'e's maybe give the slip, An' you'd best...	471 views Rate it
King Claudius — Constantine P. Cavafy	My mind now moves to distant places. I'm walking the streets of Elsinore, through its squares, and I recall the very sad story- that unfortunate king...	470 views Rate it
1914 — Wilfred Owen	War broke: and now the Winter of the world With perishing great darkness closes in. The foul tornado, centred at Berlin, Is over all the width of Europe...	469 views Rate it
Here and There — Francis William Bourdillon	'HERE'...	468 views Rate it
If We Must Die — Claude McKay	If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our...	468 views Rate it
Patterns — Amy Lowell	I walk down the garden-paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff,...	467 views Rate it
Sonnet — James Weldon Johnson	My heart be brave, and do not falter so, Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail. Thy way is very dark and drear I know, But do not let thy strength...	466 views Rate it
The Twelve — Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok	III Our sons have gone to serve the Reds to serve the Reds to risk their...	466 views Rate it
The Hunter — William Carlos Williams	In the flashes and black shadows of July the days, locked in each other's arms, seem still so that squirrels and colored birds go about at ease over ...	465 views Rate it
The Ballad of the White Horse — Gilbert Keith Chesterton	DEDICATION...	464 views Rate it
Written in March — William Wordsworth	The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest...	461 views Rate it
The Night March — Herman Melville	With banners furled and clarions mute, An army passes in the night; And beaming spears and helms salute The dark with...	461 views Rate it
Football — Robert curran	-- The grinding painful struggle Of chasing a pigskin around a puddle Sliding around in the mud and trying To catch a football that has been sent flying...	457 views Rate it
The Holy Grail — Alfred Lord Tennyson	From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called The Pure, Had passed into the...	453 views Rate it
Ladder of St. Augustine, The — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of...	451 views Rate it
The Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread — Alfred Edward Housman	The street sounds to the soldiers' tread, And out we troop to see: A single redcoat turns his head, He turns and looks at...	451 views Rate it
On Reason and Passion — Kahlil Gibran	And the priestess spoke again and said: Speak to us of Reason and Passion. And he answered, saying: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon...	448 views Rate it
At a Calvary Near the Ancre — Wilfred Owen	One ever hangs where shelled roads part. In this war He too lost a limb, But His disciples hide apart; And now the Soldiers bear with...	448 views Rate it
The Lesson — Rudyard Kipling	1899-1902 -- Boer War Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of...	447 views Rate it
Disabled — Wilfred Owen	He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys...	445 views Rate it
The Truce of the Bear — Rudyard Kipling	Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale below. Yearly by Muttianee he follows our white...	445 views Rate it
The American Flag — Joseph Rodman Drake	I. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She...	445 views Rate it
The Man Against the Sky — Edwin Arlington Robinson	Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden hill, Bleak, round, and high, by flame-lit height made...	445 views Rate it