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Knowlt Hoheimer — Edgar Lee Masters	I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet enter my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For...	444 views Rate it
Disarmament — John McCrae	One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease From darkening with strife the fair World's light, We who are great in war be great in peace. No longer let us...	442 views Rate it
Kaisarion — Constantine P. Cavafy	Partly to throw light on a certain period, partly to kill an hour or two, last night I picked up and read a volume of inscriptions about the Ptolemies....	441 views Rate it
Christabel — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	PART...	440 views Rate it
Love Among The Ruins — Robert Browning	I....	440 views Rate it
For All We Have and Are — Rudyard Kipling	For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and meet the war. The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away In wantonness...	436 views Rate it
Across The Red Sky — Katherine Mansfield	Across the red sky two birds flying, Flying with drooping wings. Silent and solitary their ominous flight. All day the triumphant sun with yellow banners...	436 views Rate it
The Holy Fair — Robert Burns	Upon a simmer Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn An' snuff the caller air. The risin' sun owre Galston muirs Wi'...	435 views Rate it
Psalm 89 part 3 — Isaac Watts	v.15ff C. M. A blessed...	433 views Rate it
Bathed In War's Perfume — Walt Whitman	BATHED in war's perfume--delicate flag! (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) O to hear you call the sailors and the...	432 views Rate it
The Sacrifice — George Herbert	Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To me, who took eyes that I might you find: Was ever...	431 views Rate it
since feeling is first — Edward Estlin Cummings	feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the...	430 views Rate it
Sappers — Rudyard Kipling	When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created the Engineer, Her Majesty's Royal Engineer, ...	430 views Rate it
Windsor Forest — Alexander Pope	Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats, At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats, Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids! Unlock your springs,...	430 views Rate it
I Sing The Body Electric — Walt Whitman	I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to...	428 views Rate it
The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe — Gerard Manley Hopkins	Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake;...	427 views Rate it
The Valleys Of The Black Pig — William Butler Yeats	THE dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes, And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries...	426 views Rate it
Fragment — Christopher Marlowe	I WALK'D along a stream, for pureness rare, Brighter than sun-shine; for it did acquaint The dullest sight with all the glorious prey That in the...	426 views Rate it
The Russian Bear in Arms With the Ukraine — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Putin and Hitler. Two European warlords. Birds of same feathers. Waging dangerous warfare. One checked, the other unchecked. Hitler and Putin. ...	423 views Rate it
'In the Pink' — Siegfried Sassoon	So Davies wrote: ' This leaves me in the pink. ' Then scrawled his name: ' Your loving sweetheart Willie ' With crosses for a hug. He'd had a drink Of...	422 views Rate it
Address To A Haggis — Robert Burns	Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are...	422 views Rate it
Oh, When Will We Ever Learn? — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A redemption song. The voices of our people. A redemption hymn. Revolutionary call. Oh, when will we ever learn? A Baptist deacon. Paul Bogle,...	421 views Rate it
Ulster — Rudyard Kipling	("Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of inquity and the act of violence is...	421 views Rate it
Yardley Oak — William Cowper	Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all That once lived here, thy brethren, at my birth, (Since which I number threescore winters past,) A shattered...	419 views Rate it
The Law Of The Yukon — Robert William Service	This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane -- Strong for the red rage...	418 views Rate it