Best Nineteenth Poems

In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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I'll never forget the date, the nineteenth of November
It's etched firmly in my mind, and I'll always remember
It was the day that I had my...

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Cityscape

The artist’s hand reshapes yesterday
    In straight lines
    Of hard edges -
Peaks of 
    Right angles...

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There was a day last week that I felt alone and sad,
   I carried days...

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I never heard or read that Texas slaves
were captive still, by masters so depraved,

till June nineteenth of eighteen sixty-five,
when news of freedom reached those still...

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It is a small investment; this property out in the scrub.
A building that is shabby in it’s ‘hey day’ was a pub.
Blackberries scramble over it,...

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Huxley was in his nineteenth year,
a freshman at a fancy school,
the kind with excesses of ivy,
who claimed they accepted no fools.

The academics were no task,
he’d...

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July nineteenth, each year a single note,
scribbled reminder, lest I should forget,
'Janet's Birthday today' was all I wrote
although I've not missed sending a card yet.
But...

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The old street lamps have lent a glow
to foggy mists engulfing them
the ground is wet with dots of color
from each fallen leaf and stem

This autumn...

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The knight of knights, Sir Lancelot,
From far away in Camelot,
Went by a way that he knew not
And thus, by chance, spied Astolat
With sunset's gleam upon...

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This is probably the first second time
On a third bases I have had a fourth thought
On my fifth victorious experience.
My victory proves that numbers don't...

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Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan 

Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of...

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P-hysical fitness is important, 
E-ssential to male and female; 
R-equirement for better health, 
L-etting not the body
A-il.

C-omplete physical fitness
A-ims to make human happy; 
B-ecause of...

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Under the depths below the deep 
     of this Atlantic Ocean,
live the lobsters that crawl and creep
    ...

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