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Derelict

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—

by Young Ewing Allison 70 lines, 2 comments
Candy Man

Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two

by Roald Dahl 25 lines, 7 comments
Down By The Salley Gardens

DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white

by William Butler Yeats 12 lines, 7 comments
Abdul Abulbul Amir

The sons of the Prophet are brave men and bold
And quite unaccustomed to fear,

by William Percy French 56 lines, 4 comments
I'm So Frightfully Unhappy" (Verse XXXIII)

I'm so frightfully unhappy,
I feel, oh stars, I am dying!:

by Jose Marti 52 lines, 2 comments
Indian Love Song

LIKE a serpent to the calling voice of flutes,
Glides my heart into thy fingers, O my Love!

by Sarojini Naidu 14 lines
In Darkness Let Me Dwell

In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,
The roof despair to bar all cheerful light from me,

by John Dowland 5 lines, 1 comment
I Am Not Skilled To Understand

I am not skilled to understand
What God hath willed, what God hath planned;

by Dora Greenwell 21 lines, 4 comments
The Princess (part 7)

So was their sanctuary violated,
So their fair college turned to hospital;

by Alfred Lord Tennyson 351 lines, 3 comments
The Battle Of Argoed Llwyfain

There was a great battle Saturday morning
From when the sun rose until it grew dark.

by Taliesin 19 lines
Do I Love Thee

I ask my heart, "Do I love thee?"
But how can I e'er forget

by Thomas E Spencer 16 lines, 1 comment
Memphis Blues

Watcha gonna do when Memphis on fire,
Memphis on fire, Mistah Preachin' Man?

by Sterling A Brown 66 lines, 2 comments
Come, Heavy Sleep

Come, heavy sleep, the image of true death;
And close up these my weary weeping eyes:

by John Dowland 12 lines, 1 comment
The Flaming Heart

Well meaning readers! you that come as freinds
And catch the pretious name this peice pretends;

by Richard Crashaw 108 lines
Wandering Singers

WHERE the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet,
Through echoing forest and echoing street,

by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife

Peace, good reader, do not weep;
Peace, the lovers are asleep.

by Richard Crashaw 16 lines, 5 comments
The Fight With The Dragon

Why run the crowd? What means the throng
That rushes fast the streets along?

by Friedrich von Schiller 300 lines, 1 comment
The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre

At a relic aul' croft upon the hill,
Roon the neuk frae Sprottie's mill,

by Robert Burns 50 lines
Village Song

HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?
Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing?

by Sarojini Naidu 16 lines, 1 comment
Cradle Song

From groves of spice,
O'er fields of rice,

by Sarojini Naidu 18 lines, 3 comments
Long Track Blues

Lanterns a-swingin',
An' a long freight leaves the yard;

by Sterling A Brown 38 lines
Go Forth My Heart

Go forth, my hert, with my lady;
Loke that we spare no business

by Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orleans 13 lines, 4 comments
Rungate Rungate

Tell me, Ezekiel, oh tell me do you see
nailed Jehovah coming to deliver me?

by Robert Hayden 75 lines
Death of Ben Hall

Come all Australia's sons to me --
A hero has been slain

by Anonymous Oceania 40 lines
My Little Doll Rose

I have a little doll;
I take care of her clothes;

by Eliza Lee Follen 25 lines, 2 comments
Under The Violets

HER hands are cold; her face is white;
No more her pulses come and go;

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Snr 46 lines, 1 comment
Ode to a Lady on the Spring

She bids the herds bound sportive o'er the meads,
And with glad songs awakes the joyous grove,

by Joseph Warton 22 lines
None Other Lamb

None other Lamb, none other Name,
None other hope in Heav’n or earth or sea,

by Christina Georgina Rossetti 13 lines
Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I - Grave-Digger’s Song

THE CRAB, the bullace, and the sloe,
They burgeon in the Spring;

by Alfred Austin 35 lines
Song Of A Dream

ONCE in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,

by Sarojini Naidu 14 lines, 2 comments

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