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Love, with a folding-couch content,
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31
Enamels and Cameos/The Garret
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Enamels%5Fand%5FCameos%2FThe%5FGarret
who created them out of nothing.
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124
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Heavenly Kingdom
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FHeavenly%5FKingdom
A demigod of figures; an Achilles
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The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Dipsychus/Part 2
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FDipsychus%2FPart%5F2
There 's anuther little happ'nin'
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41
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Deacon Jones' Grievance
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDeacon%5FJones%27%5FGrievance
  I am sure that Old Nick will play him a trick,
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The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 5/Cornucopia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F5%2FCornucopia
And here’s a cheer to the night that’s gone!
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A Rolling Stone (Service)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FRolling%5FStone%5F%28Service%29
Ships under skysails running down the
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43
Dauber
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
Or heedless folly by which thousands die,
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219
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
The prospect dies, th' aspiring rocks recede;
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51
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To Mr. Bleecker, on his passage to New-York
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5FMr%2E%5FBleecker%2C%5Fon%5Fhis%5Fpassage%5Fto%5FNew%2DYork
But after Si got overtasked
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478
The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
Deep in the flood, found, when he sought it not,
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554
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 6
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F6
That wait on man, the flight-performing horse:
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 6
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F6
Thou might'st, perchance, unshrinkingly have died;
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409
The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
To palates that can taste immortal truth;
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 6
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F6
Ancient offspring of night and day,
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The Glamorgan Gazette/14 September 1894/Twilight
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGlamorgan%5FGazette%2F14%5FSeptember%5F1894%2FTwilight
Wildly she wept for her shame and crime.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/The betrayed
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FThe%5Fbetrayed
And bloated spider, till the pamper'd pest
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 5
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F5
True to her trust, tree, herb, or reed,
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2,422
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Ah, to-day is like a dirge,—
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13
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Yesterday And To-Morrow
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FYesterday%5FAnd%5FTo%2DMorrow
While deep repentance, earnest prayer,
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Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse/The Giving of the Bible to the Esquimaux
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral%5FPieces%2C%5Fin%5FProse%5Fand%5FVerse%2FThe%5FGiving%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBible%5Fto%5Fthe%5FEsquimaux
The back some farm presents us; and your woods
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Mountain Interval/In the Home Stretch
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FIn%5Fthe%5FHome%5FStretch
          So fiercely on the shield
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331
Lays of Ancient Rome/The Battle of the Lake Regillus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FThe%5FBattle%5Fof%5Fthe%5FLake%5FRegillus
     Though oft it seems to pause,
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25
The Inventor
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FInventor
In the grime and the gloom of NovemberThe bliss and the bloom of July
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5
Astrophel and Other Poems/A Moss-Rose
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FA%5FMoss%2DRose
  to sing the glory of their famous deedes.
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9
Sonnet 29 (Spenser)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonnet%5F29%5F%28Spenser%29
    'Tis with dew bedspread!
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8
Hither, hither, love -
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hither%2C%5Fhither%2C%5Flove%5F%2D
And let the heart that loves, the eye that sees,
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15
The Robe of Grass
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRobe%5Fof%5FGrass
Low-murmured myths and prophecies,
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65
The Ancient "Lady of Sorrow"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAncient%5F%22Lady%5Fof%5FSorrow%22
Or growing weary of the world's great fight.
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40
Lyrics (Phillips)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrics%5F%28Phillips%29
          Back behime de do'--
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30
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Opportunity
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FOpportunity
I was a willing worker. Not an hour
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2,602
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
Of their escaping godship to endueThe human medium with a heavenly flush.
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Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows
Speckled beauties drowse or play?
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21
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/At Loafing-Holt
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FAt%5FLoafing%2DHolt
These ask with painful shyness, and, refus'd
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418
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
I give him twopence; he forgets his scars,
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35
Meditations on a Pawn Ticket
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditations%5Fon%5Fa%5FPawn%5FTicket
I'le have it, and likewise in Silver will shine,
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43
The Long-Nos'd Lass
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLong%2DNos%27d%5FLass
    Perhaps my brain grew dizzy – but the world
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386
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf
Tho dead they appear upon my path
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15
With happiness stretchd across the hills
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/With%5Fhappiness%5Fstretchd%5Facross%5Fthe%5Fhills
More heroes true than War has known!
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Ode (1850) (Sargent)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5F%281850%29%5F%28Sargent%29
Because I made no answer to her plea.
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
   Is stretched across the plain.
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85
The Ballad of the Drover
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDrover
  Altogether so complete
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14
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Poet And The Baby
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FPoet%5FAnd%5FThe%5FBaby
The wicked World's immediate End,
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515
British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
     And he spake to the noble river
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548
Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius
Hot earth sucks the roses' spattered blood.
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The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/Poem
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDial%5F%28Third%5FSeries%29%2FVolume%5F75%2FPoem
Drew it back, saying, almost peevishly,No, Mr. Philip,
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The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/7
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F7
And if the trees nor stones stir not the same to prove,
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1,242
Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
          The long array of spears.
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194
Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius
Our wood, that is dearer than all;
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43
Song from Maud
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Ffrom%5FMaud
Against the heavens’ highest arch.
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The Soul Of A Century/We too must die
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FWe%5Ftoo%5Fmust%5Fdie
And wicked bloodshed; when the laws should fall
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On his Consulship
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fhis%5FConsulship
Yea, into cool solacing green hast spun
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Poems of Sidney Lanier/Corn
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FCorn
Two mighty empires load the plain,
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5
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The Jumma Musjid.—The Principal Mosque at Agra
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1832%2FThe%5FJumma%5FMusjid%2E%E2%80%94The%5FPrincipal%5FMosque%5Fat%5FAgra
I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man;
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The Old Familiar Faces
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FFamiliar%5FFaces
But his veteran arm was full of might:
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The Siege of Corinth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
With eyes, whose lightning laughter10[10] hath beguil'd
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The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
Of low-lived thieves in Dandaloo.
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An Idyll of Dandaloo
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FIdyll%5Fof%5FDandaloo
The common way where countless feet have trod,
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Poems of Passion/Sonnet
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FSonnet
"The Guests are met, the Feast is set,—"May'st hear the merry din.
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4
Lyrical Ballads (1798)/The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical%5FBallads%5F%281798%29%2FThe%5FRime%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAncyent%5FMarinere
   Back to the enchanted air,
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6,037
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
   Can time e'er wash away
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Poems of Cheer/After the Battles are over
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAfter%5Fthe%5FBattles%5Fare%5Fover
   Soft joys and gay-hued mirth.
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Dreamer (Howard)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dreamer%5F%28Howard%29
Than for true pain: so went he half a mile.
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408
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/St. Dorothy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FSt%2E%5FDorothy
   As McTavish uttered there;
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The Oozlum Bird
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOozlum%5FBird
Ah! is not this charming? The links, as
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36
Forget It!
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Forget%5FIt%21
'Tis not to hear the wild wind wake the music of the tide:
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22
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/Jahara Baug, Agra
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1835%2FJahara%5FBaug%2C%5FAgra
That lit the velvet blossoms which we trod,
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2,223
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
"And how soon to the bower she loved," they say,
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78
An Indian Story
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FIndian%5FStory
As that merry urchin’s who runs to tell
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14
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The wild flowers of spring
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FThe%5Fwild%5Fflowers%5Fof%5Fspring
Their hackles lifted, they scored to cry.
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Reynard The Fox Part II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
"What dost thou? Such calamity to face, 1220
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Balaustion's Adventure/III
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII
What heard I then?—a ringing shriek of pain,
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The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
    The mist, the frost, the rain,
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833/The Tomb of Humaioon, Delhi
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1833%2FThe%5FTomb%5Fof%5FHumaioon%2C%5FDelhi
But each may bring me this relief—
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Forever
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FForever
When last this narrow street he trod, his shining pike in hand,
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The Ballad of Roddy McCorley
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FRoddy%5FMcCorley
"Nought loves another as itself,
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3
Nought loves another as itself
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nought%5Floves%5Fanother%5Fas%5Fitself
And a good distance down might not be noticed
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North of Boston/The Mountain
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FMountain
The blood-edged clouds were all in tatters,
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The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
And are hard up, you'll find no pearlsAre cast by friends before your swine."
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The Ballad of the Elder Son
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FElder%5FSon
A theory so odd, my friend,That makes a victim rather funny!
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/Confessions of a captive
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FConfessions%5Fof%5Fa%5Fcaptive
And I wept both day and night,
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1826)/Songs of Experience/The Angel
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FInnocence%5Fand%5Fof%5FExperience%5F%281826%29%2FSongs%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FAngel
Up on the yard you hadn't seen much wind.
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1,389
Dauber
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
Their measures we have took;
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The All Right Un
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAll%5FRight%5FUn
Full many a Hiram’s master mason there
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577
To Bourke's Statue
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue
Also her bed was made of green,Her windows beautiful for glass
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Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/Aholibah
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FAholibah
The lanterns gather and grow,
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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
The birds have fled and all is still,
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Weird Tales/Volume 36/Issue 11/Avalon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F36%2FIssue%5F11%2FAvalon
The breath of brides' adorning,
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21
The Song of Quoodle
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSong%5Fof%5FQuoodle
Noble ladies their prizes adjudged for costume that was perfect,
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The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/1
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F1
From Pride's false chime, and jarring wrong,
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3,467
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Nor child, nor ev'n the mother spar'd.
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The Works of Henry Fielding/Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, Modernised In Burlesque Verse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FPart%5Fof%5FJuvenal%27s%5FSixth%5FSatire%2C%5FModernised%5FIn%5FBurlesque%5FVerse
O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
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Shakespeare's Sonnets (1883)/Sonnet 19
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s%5FSonnets%5F%281883%29%2FSonnet%5F19
After the breaking of the drought,
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Jim's Whip
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jim%27s%5FWhip
“Dear heart,” I said, “if she who dwells above
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
The stable its prestige keeps.
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Visions in the Smoke
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Visions%5Fin%5Fthe%5FSmoke
Bally, and Splodger, and Spot, and Jo.
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Bullocky Bill and His Old Red Team
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bullocky%5FBill%5Fand%5FHis%5FOld%5FRed%5FTeam
Pictures lit with a radiant glow,
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Weird Tales/Volume 10/Issue 5/The Haunted Mansion
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F10%2FIssue%5F5%2FThe%5FHaunted%5FMansion
And when I ast 'er to be mine She answered “Yes” so sweetly
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Bloomin'
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bloomin%27
The artist striving after art.
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Behind the Scenes (Paterson)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Behind%5Fthe%5FScenes%5F%28Paterson%29
Above thy grave the robin sings,
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Rosaline
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rosaline