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Epidemiology ( consider Jesus Christ )by Astghick Moradkhanians — Astghick Moradkhanians	Listen up!"do things right." Time for spiritual wakening; to see real solution for all earthly struggles! Just face to sunrise section and...	775,263 views Rate it
Fragment. Where's The Poet? — John Keats	Where's the Poet? show him! show him, Muses nine! that I may know him. 'Tis the man who with a man Is an equal, be he King, Or poorest of the...	331,682 views Rate it
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 ...	22,964 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...	22,008 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 ...	20,098 views Rate it
The Miracle of Morning — Amanda Gorman	I thought I’d awaken to a world in mourning. Heavy clouds crowding, a society storming. But there’s something different on this golden morning. Something...	18,207 views Rate it
Listless Mind — Zeenat Fatma	I wasn’t able to comprehend what was happening to me and the air of melancholy that was wrapped around me Everything was in accordance but still, my...	14,563 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...	13,446 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,...	9,205 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...	8,793 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...	5,780 views Rate it
WINSOME INSIGHT — Zeenat Fatma	Oh so well! Your heart desires of me You painted me so well on a canvas All those dripped paints on the floor and those dried up paint-brushes, ...	5,674 views Rate it
*** आं थांनानै दङ - हारि **** — BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR	* आं थांनानै दङ - हारि * By:- BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR * सोरां दं खोमसिआबो दङ दाखा जोमैआबो साग्लोबहां गोजों अख्रांखौ ।। खांखुवा गोलेर...	5,561 views Rate it
The Stranger — Rudyard Kipling	The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk-- I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,...	5,028 views Rate it
**** जोमै हान्जा *** — BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR	जोमै हान्जा * By - BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR ** बे गुवार गंसे अख्रांनि जांख्रिखां हान्जा मोनसेनि उन्दै- गेदेर हान्जासे हारिनि जोंलाइ मोनसे...	4,892 views Rate it
Lucy Gray — William Wordsworth	Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary...	4,137 views Rate it
On Children — Kahlil Gibran	And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the...	4,077 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...	3,802 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...	3,725 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
The Hound of Heaven — Francis Thompson	I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind, and in the...	3,567 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...	3,548 views Rate it
* गोथां मिथिंगानि जोलै *** — BANGBULA BRAHMA UZIR	* गोथां मिथिंगानि जोलै* By - Bangbula Brahma Uzir * साननि ओंखारनायाव सोरांनि रिफिनायजों बोला जेननाय मिथिंगानि हासार गोनां हायाव निजोम...	3,527 views Rate it
Willow and Ginkgo — Eve Merriam	The willow is like an etching, Fine-lined against the sky. The ginkgo is like a crude sketch, Hardly worthy to be signed. The willow’s music is like a...	3,446 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...	2,833 views Rate it

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