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it's easier than a month and a month — Markesh Dickinson	Looks like plastic bags. Is Windil coming back? Listen, the paper is thin Do you like karate at home? Are you buried Shouts 6 feet, but no one hears ...	22,961 views Rate it
The Gods Of The Copybook Headings — Rudyard Kipling	As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I...	21,972 views Rate it
The White Man's Burden — Rudyard Kipling	Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness ...	19,964 views Rate it
The Defence of Lucknow — Alfred Lord Tennyson	I BANNER of England, not for a season, O banner of Britain, hast thou Floated in conquering battle or flapt to the battle-cry! Never with mightier...	13,336 views Rate it
Tommy — Rudyard Kipling	I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here." The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an'...	8,962 views Rate it
Taxi man — Peter Huang	road i cannot drive on the apartment cannot prolong the tires forever enveloped, and the enginge rusted in the molden insides of the blizzard....	7,937 views Rate it
The Young British Soldier — Rudyard Kipling	When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased Ere...	7,291 views Rate it
The Law of the Jungle — Rudyard Kipling	Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must...	5,740 views Rate it
The Hollow Men — T. S. Eliot	I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are...	5,019 views Rate it
Ode To A Nightingale — John Keats	My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute...	3,748 views Rate it
Seated ❤️ — Joanne Boyle	Do not look at me with sorrow, Simply because I sit alone. It is a choice I chose to make To compose the shivers from my bone. Do not look at this...	3,570 views Rate it
Terence, This is Stupid Stuff — Alfred Edward Housman	"Terence, this is stupid stuff! You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh,...	3,479 views Rate it
THE TREEHOUSE — Gerald Logie	I finally agreed when he turned eight To build his ' Castle in the sky' With wooden steps nailed up the side Just so he could climb that high. Four...	3,351 views Rate it
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 ...	3,288 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...	2,815 views Rate it
Song of the Prettybird — Shay Alexi Stewart	I've lived 20 prettybird years Of this great big prettybird life And i think i pretty pretty pretty bird bird pretty much know what im talking about ...	2,788 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...	2,785 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...	2,729 views Rate it
We dream—it is good we are dreaming — Emily Dickinson	We dream—it is good we are dreaming— It would hurt us—were we awake— But since it is playing—kill us, And we are...	2,645 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. ...	2,555 views Rate it
Death Is Here And Death Is There — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I. Death is here and death is there, Death is busy everywhere, All around, within, beneath, Above is death—and we are...	2,500 views Rate it
Let Me Die a Youngman's Death — Roger McGough	Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famous-last-words peaceful out of breath...	2,028 views Rate it
Tamar — Robinson Jeffers	I A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl, No, like a drunkard's last half-dollar Shoved on the polished bar of the eastern hill-range, Young...	2,004 views Rate it
Warfare Source: Distempers of the Human Mind — Karl Constantine FOLKES	PROLOGUE: Behold, how war and peace are so aligned. Haply appearing sometimes as comedy. At other times to sadly all remind; there’s sometimes joy...	1,970 views Rate it
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower — William Carlos Williams	Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem- save that it's green and wooden- I...	1,789 views Rate it