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• The Man from Snowy River

  There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
  That the colt from old Regret had got away,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 115 lines, 24 comments
• Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

  I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
  Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,

  by Pablo Neruda 48 lines, 38 comments
• Funeral Blues

  Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
  Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

  by W H Auden 18 lines, 28 comments
• i carry your heart with me

  i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
  my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

  by e e cummings 17 lines, 39 comments
• Himself

  Last night, when I was listenin’
  Alone, to wind and rain,

  by Alice Guerin Crist 53 lines, 32 comments
• The Lion and Albert

  There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool,
  That's noted for fresh air and fun,

  by Marriott Edgar 88 lines, 53 comments
• Love

  Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
  Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.

  by Pablo Neruda 27 lines, 28 comments
• My Country

  The love of field and coppice,
  Of green and shaded lanes.

  by Dorothea Mackellar 52 lines, 42 comments
• Beach Burial

  Softly and humbly to the Gulf of Arabs
  The convoys of dead sailors come;

  by Kenneth Slessor 51 lines, 10 comments
• Here I Love You

  Here I love you.
  In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself.

  by Pablo Neruda 32 lines, 13 comments
• Comin Thro' The Rye

  O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
    Jenny's seldom dry:

  by Robert Burns 23 lines, 15 comments
• The Man He Killed

  Had he and I but met
      By some old ancient inn,

  by Thomas Hardy 23 lines, 48 comments
• Mirror

  I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
  Whatever I see I swallow immediately

  by Sylvia Plath 18 lines, 38 comments
• Fire And Ice

    Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.

  by Robert Frost 8 lines, 51 comments
• Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

  Earth has not anything to show more fair:
  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

  by William Wordsworth 13 lines, 34 comments
• The Ballad Of The Landlord

  Landlord, landlord,
  My roof has sprung a leak.

  by Langston Hughes 38 lines, 9 comments
• Sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds..."

  Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments. Love is not love

  by William Shakespeare 13 lines, 23 comments
• If I could write words

  If I could write words
  Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,

  by Spike Milligan 6 lines, 32 comments
• The Three Little Pigs

  The animal I really dig,
  Above all others is the pig.

  by Roald Dahl 94 lines, 9 comments
• Cinderella

  I guess you think you know this story.
  You don't. The real one's much more gory.

  by Roald Dahl 127 lines, 6 comments
• Where The Mind Is Without Fear

  Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
  Where knowledge is free

  by Rabindranath Tagore 10 lines, 34 comments
• Out, Out--

  The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
  And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,

  by Robert Frost 33 lines, 12 comments
• Who's for the Game?

  Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played,
  The red crashing game of a fight?

  by Jessie Pope 16 lines, 9 comments
• may i feel said he

  may i feel said he
  (i'll squeal said she

  by e e cummings 38 lines, 27 comments
• Bah, Bah, Black Sheep

  Bah, bah, black sheep,
      Have you any wool?

  by Anonymous British 7 lines, 10 comments
• Bear In There

  There's a polar bear
  In our Frigidaire--

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 17 lines, 8 comments
• Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori

  Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
  Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

  by Wilfred Owen 29 lines, 30 comments
• Alone

  From childhood's hour I have not been
  As others were; I have not seen

  by Edgar Allan Poe 22 lines, 90 comments
• When We Two Parted

  When we two parted
    In silence and tears,

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 34 lines, 18 comments
• Cancion de Otoño en Primavera (Song of Autumn in the Springtime)

  Juventud, divino tesoro,
  ya te vas para no volver!

  by Ruben Dario 171 lines, 4 comments
• When I Love

  When I love
  I feel that I am the king of time

  by Nizar Qabbani 19 lines, 9 comments
• Witches Chant (from Macbeth)

  Round about the couldron go:
  In the poisones entrails throw.

  by William Shakespeare 34 lines, 29 comments
• Phenomenal Woman

  Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
  I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size

  by Dr. Maya Angelou 60 lines, 51 comments
• The Pig

  In England once there lived a big
  A wonderfully clever pig.

  by Roald Dahl 54 lines, 40 comments
• Unending Love

  I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
  In life after life, in age after age, forever.

  by Rabindranath Tagore 22 lines, 14 comments
• Risk

  And then the day came,
  when the risk

  by Anais Nin 7 lines, 18 comments
• The Crocodile

  "No animal is half as vile
  As Crocky–Wock, the crocodile.

  by Roald Dahl 26 lines, 2 comments
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  Do not go gentle into that good night,
  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

  by Dylan Thomas 23 lines, 67 comments
• The Highwayman

  The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees,
  The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,

  by Alfred Noyes 118 lines, 37 comments
• Us Two

  Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
  There's always Pooh and Me.

  by A.A. Milne 38 lines, 7 comments

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