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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 ...	22,972 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...	22,086 views Rate it
Mandalay — Rudyard Kipling	By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees,...	16,602 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...	13,562 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'...	9,242 views Rate it
The Bustards Egg — Longerfellow	Behind me. Frozen Military issued hands down my military issued trousers This is no military issue for me! Chew the fat (grit) of horror,...	9,218 views Rate it
The Female of the Species — Rudyard Kipling	When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends...	8,965 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....	7,939 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...	7,501 views Rate it
Freedom's Plow — Langston Hughes	When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a man starts to build a world, He starts first with...	6,094 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...	5,856 views Rate it
Abyss of Addiction — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	Abyss of Addiction by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett In every street and town Poisons abound, Tricking the mind, Destroying the brain. Some...	5,272 views Rate it
There is no Fear — Subramanya Bharathi	The people of this world, if against they stand, There is no fear, there is no fear, nothing like...	4,996 views Rate it
The Call Of The Wild — Robert William Service	Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on, Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore, Big mountains heaved to heaven,...	4,419 views Rate it
Ode To Joy — Friedrich Schiller	Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning, Daughter of Elysium, Fire drunken we are ent’ring Heavenly, thy holy home! Thy enchantments bind together, What did...	3,910 views Rate it
Casey at the Bat — Ernest Lawrence Thayer	The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, And then when Cooney died at...	3,847 views Rate it
The Ballad Of East And West — Rudyard Kipling	Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there...	3,584 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 ...	3,367 views Rate it
Dane-Geld — Rudyard Kipling	A.D....	2,951 views Rate it
We and They — Rudyard Kipling	Father and Mother, and Me, Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They. And They live over the sea, While We...	2,848 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...	2,731 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...	2,678 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...	2,514 views Rate it
Fuzzy-Wuzzy — Rudyard Kipling	(Soudan Expeditionary Force) We've fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not: The Paythan an' the Zulu an'...	2,466 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...	2,177 views Rate it