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Cotter's Saturday Night, The Robert Burns	chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh, The short'ning winter day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh, The black'ning trains o'...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My old football John Milton Hayes	crumpled lump of leather. Then came the threat’ning voice of War, And games had little chance, My brother went to do his bit Out there somewhere in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Petrarch to Laura Mary Darby Robinson	and melancholy glades; Ye mountains black'ning o'er the thorny vale; Ye lucid lakes that trembling meet the gale; Ye gloomy avenues of dire...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Renascence Edna St. Vincent Millay	core, Lay open to my probing sense That, sick'ning, I would fain pluck thence But could not, -- nay! But needs must suck At the great wound, and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Radiant Dark George Eliot	voice that fills With ravishment the list'ning hours. Whis'prings, wooings, Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings, in low-toned rhythm that...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Tread Shelby Minick	along the road; And voices soft but threat’ning speak To call aside my weary feet. But press I on, through murky way. I must soon see the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
War Percy Bysshe Shelley	War, and Woe, and Terror, in his train;-- List'ning he pauses on the embattled plain, Then speeding swiftly o'er the ensanguined heath, Has left the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Billy's Alphabetical Animal Show James Whitcomb Riley	D was a dandified Dog Who said,--'Though it's raining like fog I wear no umbrellah, Me boy, for a fellah Might just as well travel...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
'Twixt the Wings of the Yard Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake	yard....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
1827; Or, The Poet's Last Poem. Thomas Gent	If then I take the "brilliant" pen. And "scorning measures" talk of men-- There Luttrel steps 'twixt me and fame-- So like, egad, we're just the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Basket of Flowers Adam Lindsay Gordon	rather Then heedlessly cast. Yon tree's shady awning Is short'ning, and warning, Far spent is the morning, And I must ride fast. Songs empty, yet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Botticelli Madonna I The Wondering Angels Ethel Allen Murphy	ng,--we who miss In our immortal joy, the enlight'ning kiss Of sorrow's bitter lips whence comforts thrill? How shall we sing to her of joys to come, To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Bridal Measure Paul Laurence Dunbar	springing. Who shall say 't is but a clod Quick'ning upward toward its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall Robert Herrick	thus fragrant be: 'Tis He is born, whose quick'ning Birth Gives life and luster, public mirth, To Heaven and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Country Pathway James Whitcomb Riley	marge beyond it, drifts Still onward, beckoning...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication Robert Burns	pale Misery moans, And strikes the ever-deep'ning tones, Still louder shrieks, and heavier...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication Adam Lindsay Gordon	gushes, The tempests that rave. In the deep'ning of dawn, when it dapples The dusk of the sky, With streaks like the redd'ning of apples, The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication To Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Robert Burns	pale Mis'ry moans, And strikes the ever-deep'ning tones, Still louder shrieks, and heavier groans! Your pardon, Sir, for this digression. I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Description of a City Shower Jonathan Swift	Her Frolicks, and pursues her Tail no more. Returning Home at Night, you'll find the Sink Strike your offended Sense with double Stink. If you be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Description Of One Of The Pieces Of Tapistry At Long-Leat Anne Kingsmill Finch	Eyes so near him do's apply, We think, enliv'ning Beams might from them fly, To re-inkindle, by so just an Aim, The radial Sparks, but lately...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dream Of Autumn James Whitcomb Riley	From the vale the trees stand swinging In the moaning atmosphere; While in dead'ning-lands the lowing Of the cattle, sadder growing, Fills the sense to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W. Phillis Wheatley	s, Adieu, the flow'ry plain: I leave thine op'ning charms, O spring, And tempt the roaring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Farewell To Tobacco Charles Lamb	at us; While each man, thro' thy height'ning steam, Does like a smoking Etna seem, And all about us does express (Fancy and wit in richest...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fit Of Rhyme Against Rhyme Ben Jonson	conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgment with a measure, But false weight; Wresting words from their true calling, Propping verse...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hymn James Thomson	and love. Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm; Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles, And every sense, and every heart is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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