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Creeping slowly on his way,
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Once upon a time
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FOnce%5Fupon%5Fa%5Ftime
   There's much in life to grieve us;
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Rover (Kendall)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rover%5F%28Kendall%29
     Fur good to come along,
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50
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/My Sort O' Man
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FMy%5FSort%5FO%27%5FMan
    Gittin' sort o' skeery;
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10
Halloween Failure
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Halloween%5FFailure
When lo! at the window a shape,
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13
The Ghost of the Murderer's Hut
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGhost%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMurderer%27s%5FHut
   So near the brink I stand,
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6
Ballad (Hood; "She's up and gone, the graceless girl")
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballad%5F%28Hood%3B%5F%22She%27s%5Fup%5Fand%5Fgone%2C%5Fthe%5Fgraceless%5Fgirl%22%29
Have purple flaps on either cheek,
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933
The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
Diversified, that two were never found
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737
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 4
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F4
     There shall be a darker day;
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57
Voices of the Night/Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FMidnight%5FMass%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FDying%5FYear
And tells me that the day will break
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7
To a Bird (1892)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FBird%5F%281892%29
Now that her eye no longer dwelt on him,
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The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/Juliet after the Masquerade
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FJuliet%5Fafter%5Fthe%5FMasquerade
   He kisses his child and wife;
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Poems of Experience/The Voice of the Voiceless
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FVoice%5Fof%5Fthe%5FVoiceless
Lest we forget, lest we forget!
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16
McClure's Magazine/Volume 9/Number 6/Recessional
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McClure%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F9%2FNumber%5F6%2FRecessional
     If I live,
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24
Little fly
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Little%5Ffly
Only the sound of a rapturous song Throbbed in the tremulous light;
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Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1724/A Feather
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1724%2FA%5FFeather
Were happy shepherds and their flocks,
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162
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/Sir Tristem
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FSir%5FTristem
Her heart beat faster as they nearer drew,
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13
The Infantry that Would Not Yield
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FInfantry%5Fthat%5FWould%5FNot%5FYield
Spring slattern of seasons
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Spring omnipotent goddess Thou
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Spring%5Fomnipotent%5Fgoddess%5FThou
   Love face to face revealed:
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The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Or at best but a Devil's Elixir.
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Birds of Passage (Collection)/Catawba Wine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Birds%5Fof%5FPassage%5F%28Collection%29%2FCatawba%5FWine
Drowned out from him that moment.As he stood
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Aurora Leigh/First Book
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora%5FLeigh%2FFirst%5FBook
But onward moved the melancholy train,
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153
The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
And Time, who decks his flowers with tears,
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6
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/An autumn birthday
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FAn%5Fautumn%5Fbirthday
What Colour best becomes them, and what Smell.
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The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPicture%5Fof%5FLittle%5FT%2EC%2E%5Fin%5Fa%5FProspect%5Fof%5FFlowers
She, the Maiden of Kercheezer,
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The Maiden of Kercheezer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMaiden%5Fof%5FKercheezer
Behold! the floods apart are flung,—And where the circling eddies rise,
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Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2/The Mermaid
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F1%2FIssue%5F2%2FThe%5FMermaid
Between the pulses of the sun(The light and dark still fitful coming)
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/The morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FThe%5Fmorning%5Fbefore%5Fthe%5FMassacre%5Fof%5FSt%2E%5FBartholomew
Dedera was also urgingThat I should decide,
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Tyrolean Elegies
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tyrolean%5FElegies
      His fancy flitted through,
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Grimm Tales Made Gay/How Rumplestilz Held Out in Vain for a Bonus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grimm%5FTales%5FMade%5FGay%2FHow%5FRumplestilz%5FHeld%5FOut%5Fin%5FVain%5Ffor%5Fa%5FBonus
And corn was up, and rent was down two-thirds....
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Dauber
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
Like -- (No libels here, my sonny. -- Ed. B.)
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10
Who is Kater Anyhow?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%5Fis%5FKater%5FAnyhow%3F
Thine too those musically-falling founts
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241
The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green/The Ruins of Rome
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FArmstrong%2C%5FDyer%2C%5Fand%5FGreen%2FThe%5FRuins%5Fof%5FRome
    Death-lone on that far strange shore;
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Crossing the Choor Mountains
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1839%2FCrossing%5Fthe%5FChoor%5FMountains
            A farm house by the river.
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The Farm House by the River
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFarm%5FHouse%5Fby%5Fthe%5FRiver
"And people have an awful down
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Hay and Hell and Booligal
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hay%5Fand%5FHell%5Fand%5FBooligal
And there I'll lie and dream
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Life of William Blake (1863), Volume 2/Poetical Sketches
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FBlake%5F%281863%29%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2FPoetical%5FSketches
With dances and with songs:
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A Song to David
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid
So you better not go spa'kin' wif dat wuffless scoun'el Quin!
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Letter
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FLetter
From ages past, yet fields were tilled,
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St. John's Eve (Kochanowski)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29
    Cannot endure reproof,
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An Ode to Himself
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FOde%5Fto%5FHimself
Thou furrowest space,
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Chant to Sirius
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chant%5Fto%5FSirius
While she sasshay 'roun' an' bow,
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Looking-Glass
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLooking%2DGlass
Dey 's a moughty One a-comin' fu' to baih yo' load;
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Spiritual
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FSpiritual
fædergeardum feor,þær him freolecu mæg,
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Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
Some traces of her youthful beauty left)
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299
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 3
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F3
Ma'ch yo'se'f an wash yo' face,
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25
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/In the Morning
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FIn%5Fthe%5FMorning
For improving the prisons of Hell.
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The Devil's Walk
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDevil%27s%5FWalk
And youthful Rome intent: the kindred foes
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The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green/The Ruins of Rome
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FArmstrong%2C%5FDyer%2C%5Fand%5FGreen%2FThe%5FRuins%5Fof%5FRome
Some blamed the men and others blamed the luck!
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Father Riley's Horse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Father%5FRiley%27s%5FHorse
'Twas in the eleventh moon I wentwool gathering in the dim,
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The Eleventh Moon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEleventh%5FMoon
And still enjoy the fruits of universal sway.
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The Tears of Khorassan
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTears%5Fof%5FKhorassan
The thoughts of it do me provoke,for why, alas I fear
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Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy
That speak with God and morning, high
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Orara
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Orara
But hearts with grief are breaking, And one shall wed Despair.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/England's suttee
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FEngland%27s%5Fsuttee
'Twixt the day and the dark,
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Twilight
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTwilight
     Because he was five and a man--
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The Light That Failed (headings)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLight%5FThat%5FFailed%5F%28headings%29
swyðe mid sorgum gedrefed.    Forgif me, swegles ealdor,
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Poem of Judith
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJudith
Perch'd on the sign-post, holds with even hand
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483
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 4
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F4
But a course of "stag and brownie" seems to make the bush-struck towny
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The Overflow of Clancy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOverflow%5Fof%5FClancy
   Crowned heads melt away in the skies,
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Poems of Cheer/The Ocean of Song
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FThe%5FOcean%5Fof%5FSong
To Congress said George Washington: "Since I must must them all
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Why Washington Retreated
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why%5FWashington%5FRetreated
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)
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Clancy of the Overflow
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Clancy%5Fof%5Fthe%5FOverflow
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
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The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia
And now the L—d knows whither he is gone.
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The Works of Henry Fielding/Another. On A Wicked Fellow, Who Was A Great Blunderer.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FAnother%2E%5FOn%5FA%5FWicked%5FFellow%2C%5FWho%5FWas%5FA%5FGreat%5FBlunderer%2E
Shadow delicate fell fast
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A Little Child's Monument/Music and the Child
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FMusic%5Fand%5Fthe%5FChild
Above the skirt of yellow clouds
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Christmas Morning in the Bush
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Christmas%5FMorning%5Fin%5Fthe%5FBush
Both him of Merchiston, and Maskelyne,—
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584
To Bourke's Statue
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue
Perhaps in your fragile
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The Mystic Rose
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMystic%5FRose
And only the eye that has looked on snows
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Poems of Experience/The Awakening
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FAwakening
He took his load from the stretcher men and hurried 'em homeward fast
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Driver Smith
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Driver%5FSmith
The spilling of her blood by foreign knife,
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Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
What's de use o' keerin'
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Plantation Child's Lullaby
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FPlantation%5FChild%27s%5FLullaby
Their courage like a banner blown.
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976
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
Like night that fled but shrunk not, dusking all
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Saturn (Smith)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saturn%5F%28Smith%29
hatað under heofnumand þin heafod tredeð
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Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
On blosmy twig still swinging from the breeze,
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Lyrical Ballads (1798)/The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical%5FBallads%5F%281798%29%2FThe%5FNightingale%2C%5Fa%5FConversational%5FPoem
And see—just at that moment dread,
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Bohemian legends and other poems/The Wedding Shirt
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FThe%5FWedding%5FShirt
As all the drugs that the doctors know.
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Conroy's Gap
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Conroy%27s%5FGap
    When Life's gay dawn was opening to my view?
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Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet X
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FX
With voice that bore her joy in ev’ry tone,
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
I remember oft o' standin'
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Ol' Tunes
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FOl%27%5FTunes
  Like the burnished spears of a field of gold;
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FCorn%2DStalk%5FFiddle
The mare proceeded to amuse,
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Ballad of the Jelly-Cake
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FJelly%2DCake
At the bleak end of night; he shivered there
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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon/Break of Day
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5FPoems%5Fof%5FSiegfried%5FSassoon%2FBreak%5Fof%5FDay
To ceaseless action goading human thought
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Religious Musings (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Religious%5FMusings%5F%28unsourced%29
By the road-side and the borders of the brook,
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Summer Wind
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Summer%5FWind
And grins with horse-teeth, white and large, at every one he meets,
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/The Saturnalia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FThe%5FSaturnalia
At ten A.M. the young housewife
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The Young Housewife
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYoung%5FHousewife
Wherefore stay to talk of fainting, when the sun, with sinking fire,
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Fainting by the Way
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fainting%5Fby%5Fthe%5FWay
Between the advancing grave and breaking death,
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Biography (Masefield)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Biography%5F%28Masefield%29
To bid afflicted Virtue take new state,
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Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
They sigh a monstrous foul-air sigh
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Poems of Sidney Lanier/The Symphony
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FThe%5FSymphony
O life descending into death,
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The Stream of Life (Clough)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStream%5Fof%5FLife%5F%28Clough%29
London has been my prison; but my books
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Biography (Masefield)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Biography%5F%28Masefield%29
And the harder look in those eyes of blue:
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Jim Carew
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jim%5FCarew
sighs burst forth, his Children all in arms appear to tear him from
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Then She bore Pale desire/edited
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Then%5FShe%5Fbore%5FPale%5Fdesire%2Fedited
A lover whom duty called over the wave,
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lover And The Moon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLover%5FAnd%5FThe%5FMoon
  The fog-bank glides unguessed,
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Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918/The Bell Buoy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rudyard%5FKipling%27s%5FVerse%2C%5FInclusive%5FEdition%2C%5F1885%2D1918%2FThe%5FBell%5FBuoy
To see her noblest structure fall so soon.
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The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/Elegy on the Death of Cleora
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FElegy%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FCleora
Is throned upon a heap of monstrous rocks
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Medusa
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Medusa