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Wishbone — Richard Siken	You saved my life he says I owe you everything. You don’t, I say, you don’t owe me squat, let’s just get going, let’s just get gone, but he’s ...	3,280 views Rate it
The Love Unfeigned — Geoffrey Chaucer	O YONGE fresshe folkes, he or she, In which that love up groweth with your age, Repeyreth hoom from worldly vanitee, And of your herte up-casteth the...	3,256 views Rate it
Invictus — William Ernest Henley	Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable...	3,249 views Rate it
Self conscious — lilsteep12	If I were to shed my ego, my self, my identity, Would the world be better, freer from my vanity? Or would existence be distorted, unrecognizable, By...	3,021 views Rate it
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell — William Blake	THE ARGUMENT RINTRAH roars and shakes his fires in the burdenM air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep. Once meek, and in a perilous path The...	2,812 views Rate it
On Death — Kahlil Gibran	Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of Death. And he said: You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless...	2,762 views Rate it
Farewell Ungrateful Traitor — John Dryden	Farewell ungrateful traitor, Farewell my perjured swain, Let never injured creature Believe a man again. The pleasure of possessing Surpasses all...	2,751 views Rate it
A Senryu Tale of Genji — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A senryu poem About Prince Minamoto, The renown Genji. His life and journey In Japan’s Heian period In Old Kyoto. A Golden Era. The eleventh...	2,728 views Rate it
VERSES Occasioned by a Young Lady's asking the Author, What was a Cure for Love? — Thomas Godfrey	From me, my Dear, O seek not to receive What e'en deep-read Experience cannot give. We may, indeed, from the Physician's skill Some Med'cine find to cure...	2,695 views Rate it
Futility — Claude McKay	Oh, I have tried to laugh the pain away, Let new flames brush my love-springs like a feather. But the old fever seizes me to-day, As sickness grips a...	2,588 views Rate it
The Rainbow — William Wordsworth	My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow...	2,535 views Rate it
Requiem — Anna Akhmatova	Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where misfortune had abandoned us. ...	2,522 views Rate it
no breathing in class — michael rosen	Strict. We had a teacher who was so strict, you weren't allowed to breathe in her lessons. She used to stand out the front going, "No...	2,495 views Rate it
Jerusalem — William Blake	And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures...	2,467 views Rate it
The Invitation — Oriah Mountain Dreamer	It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It...	2,368 views Rate it
The Gift — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	The Gift by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett However you say the name, Mom, Mum, Momma, Mommy, We all feel the same. Dear Mother, Thank you! For...	2,267 views Rate it
* फांसे बिफांनि रोदा * — BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR	* फांसे बिफांनि रोदा ** By :- Bangbula Brahma Uzir *गोजाम बिदिन्थानि बुब्लिनिफ्राय रुगुं मोनहासयै फोथाराव हाग्रा दुफावनाय जाहारबारियाव ...	2,239 views Rate it
love, men — William Blake	I love men I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did...	2,213 views Rate it
Song Of One Of The Girls — Dorothy Parker	Here in my heart I am Helen; I'm Aspasia and Hero, at least. I'm Judith, and Jael, and Madame de Stael; I'm Salome, moon of the...	2,212 views Rate it
Gunga Din — Rudyard Kipling	You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You...	2,145 views Rate it
For whom the Bell Tolls — John Donne	PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better...	2,120 views Rate it
When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted — Rudyard Kipling	When Earth's last picture is painted And the tubes are twisted and dried When the oldest colors have faded And the youngest critic has died We shall rest,...	2,091 views Rate it
Will You II — Nobody Nose	Shall we title this poem Question Mark "?" For...	2,079 views Rate it
America for Me — Henry Van Dyke	'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, To admire the crumblyh castles and the statues and...	2,033 views Rate it
Rocket Time — Douglas J. Gillert	Sometimes the screenshots appear blurred, the winter fogging camera lenses in Ukraine, details not fine enough for telescopic videos. But it’s true, I...	2,023 views Rate it