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I’ll never rest to-night unless I know.
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37
North of Boston/The Fear
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FFear
The proneness of this age to error hath
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298
A Funeral Elegy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FFuneral%5FElegy
Upon the oak he flutters,
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69
The Soul Of A Century/The dove
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FThe%5Fdove
My lips kissed dumb the word of AhSighed on strange lips grown sick thereby.
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113
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Masque of Queen Bersabe
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FMasque%5Fof%5FQueen%5FBersabe
Chosen, whom all the perfected in Heaven
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276
The Destiny of Nations (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDestiny%5Fof%5FNations%5F%28unsourced%29
But why then publish? Granville the polite,
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135
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Fto%5FDr%5FArbuthnot
It fails, when to particulars applied;
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1,739
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
Then back to back, like boars at bay, they mocked our angry cheers.
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43
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/The death of Winkelreid
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FThe%5Fdeath%5Fof%5FWinkelreid
And the Poet, faithful and far-seeing,
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17
Voices of the Night/Flowers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FFlowers
Carved at the prow, build lightly, but compactly,
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186
Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
Then a feller understan's
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23
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Bein' Back Home
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FBein%27%5FBack%5FHome
On the side of a hill where He could think;
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69
The Book of American Negro Poetry/The Creation
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBook%5Fof%5FAmerican%5FNegro%5FPoetry%2FThe%5FCreation
Look in the glass and I see today
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24
A Bunch of Roses
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBunch%5Fof%5FRoses
With a forehead made of wrinkles
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9
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
Says "Stay back, I'm smoking my gun", let him see his Albert dying.
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11
Frankie and Albert
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Frankie%5Fand%5FAlbert
For Breath, and perish'd in their Gore.
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1,041
British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
O, I'm thankful you are gone, Mary,
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49
Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900/Lament of the Irish Emigrant
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oxford%5FBook%5Fof%5FEnglish%5FVerse%5F1250%2D1900%2FLament%5Fof%5Fthe%5FIrish%5FEmigrant
All things in the vast creation,
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143
The Twelve Months: A New Year's Dream
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTwelve%5FMonths%3A%5FA%5FNew%5FYear%27s%5FDream
It reels down to die, and he lets it lie;
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55
Poems of Experience/The Voice of the Voiceless
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FVoice%5Fof%5Fthe%5FVoiceless
      For learned modesty, —
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30
Ode to the Johns Hopkins University
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5Fthe%5FJohns%5FHopkins%5FUniversity
For when I was in New York
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3
Translations from the Chinese/A Letter to His Friend Mu Kow
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FA%5FLetter%5Fto%5FHis%5FFriend%5FMu%5FKow
To buckram out the mem'ry of a man.
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651
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
ara esteælmihtig god,
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1,810
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
That “pre-eminence in sorrow” of the Majesty he served,
9
2
The Babies of Walloon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBabies%5Fof%5FWalloon
There is no balking Genius. Only death
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2,542
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
Can't wake dat boy fu' all I say,
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48
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/At Night
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FAt%5FNight
And sometimes when they burn the leaves
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1,633
The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
Leaped up to his lips, and when low-murmured vows
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27
The Picket Guard
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPicket%5FGuard
More blood must stream, or ere your wrongs be full.
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302
Religious Musings (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Religious%5FMusings%5F%28unsourced%29
Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands
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5
The Nile
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNile
Their passions were beyond control.
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69
Battle of Grendon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FGrendon
Outstretching all rivals who've mounted before,
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14
The Far Future
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFar%5FFuture
   But glow with more prevailing heat.
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18
A Song (Cowper)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5F%28Cowper%29
Through the tumult of their warlike preparation
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5
Song of the Federation
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFederation
       Not till their foes were driven forth
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10
The American Rebellion
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAmerican%5FRebellion
The men, also the maids;
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2
A Song of Cheer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fof%5FCheer
   These people who make up the crowd!
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4
Poems of Cheer/In the crowd
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FIn%5Fthe%5Fcrowd
But with flutes of Fear they filled the ear,
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261
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1904)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FReading%5FGaol%5F%281904%29
.mw-parser-output .dropinitial{float:left;text-indent:0}.mw-parser-output .dropinitial .dropinitial-fl{float:left;position:relative;vertical-align:top;line-height:1}.mw-parser-output .dropinitial .dropinitial-mid .dropinitial-initial{float:left;line-height:1em;text-indent:0;font-size:3em;margin:0 0.1em 0 0}orning is round the shining palace,
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1
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838/The Kings of Golconda
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1838%2FThe%5FKings%5Fof%5FGolconda
Just then the sunlight fell with sudden flame:
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5
Poems of Cheer/Guerdon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FGuerdon
These spots went roaming, with some such glee
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13
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
  Keep it wa'm but low.
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30
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
And so attend ye toward her glittering state;
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73
Comus and other poems/Arcades
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FArcades
Kneeled and caressed and made promise with kisses, and drew them along to the gateway—
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6
Traffics and Discoveries/The Return of the Children
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Traffics%5Fand%5FDiscoveries%2FThe%5FReturn%5Fof%5Fthe%5FChildren
That, — of the scheme of rule in righteousness,
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440
Balaustion's Adventure/V
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV
The height of choice spirits from near and from far
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3
Mulligan's Mare
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mulligan%27s%5FMare
To get a gulp of momentary glow
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1,326
Dauber
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
O you, with whom in sloping vallcys,
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116
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/The Wanderings of Oisin
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin
And shedding perfume in a fragrant stream.But ere her beauty opened to the view
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3
Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1693/Love and the Violet
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1693%2FLove%5Fand%5Fthe%5FViolet
You did, what will not be forgot.
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32
The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Peschiera
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FPeschiera
"Tae the Esquimaux," said the dour guidwife,
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81
Santa Claus in the Bush
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Santa%5FClaus%5Fin%5Fthe%5FBush
There never will be.
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9
Translations from the Chinese/A Moment of Meditation
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FA%5FMoment%5Fof%5FMeditation
    Not in your sculptured rise
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63
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/Hindoo and Mahommedan Buildings
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%2FHindoo%5Fand%5FMahommedan%5FBuildings
And a host of artists stood beyond the door,
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127
The Soul Of A Century/King Abgar
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FKing%5FAbgar
English troops are buried deep.
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22
The Reveille
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FReveille
Ere every shop shall be a store
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25
Americanisation (Chesterton)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Americanisation%5F%28Chesterton%29
That's the way we rob the river of its golden fish …
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27
The Digger's Song
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDigger%27s%5FSong
          That creaked beneath the weight
5
134
Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius
to outrage Him again;
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81
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Penance of Adam and Eve
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FPenance%5Fof%5FAdam%5Fand%5FEve
So Smithy says to me, "You take a hold
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49
A Disqualified Jockey's Story
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDisqualified%5FJockey%27s%5FStory
Perhaps he seem'd above the Critick's Law,
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120
An Essay on Criticism
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism
To climb the sides of the breezy peaks or dive in the shaded pool,
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13
An Anthology of Australian Verse/The Star of Australasia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FThe%5FStar%5Fof%5FAustralasia
    This brought up water.
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52
Epitaphs of the War
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epitaphs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWar
No noise is here, or none that hinders thought.
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76
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
In place across a cloud the slender ray
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Miscellaneous Poems to 1920/The Valley's Singing Day
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Miscellaneous%5FPoems%5Fto%5F1920%2FThe%5FValley%27s%5FSinging%5FDay
   Which he called the “quickest shtepper 'twixt the Darling and the sea”;
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10
The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGrog%2Dan%27%2DGrumble%5FSteeplechase
A few weeks back?
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246
Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows
To make me rue what first it made me know.
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270
St. Peter's Complaint
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
When as a steed refreshed after toyle,
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Sonnet 80 (Spenser)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonnet%5F80%5F%28Spenser%29
     Now might ye see the banners
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198
Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius
   He employed in ‘sticking porkers’ for his neighbours, and his skill
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18
When Brother Peetree Prayed : A Recollection
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/When%5FBrother%5FPeetree%5FPrayed%5F%3A%5FA%5FRecollection
Why mock the man-mime's hour of storm and stress
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27
Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1718/Ephemera
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1718%2FEphemera
Again the scenes before thine eye.
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12
To a Dreamer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FDreamer
Ev'n as a nest with birds
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52
Saint Valentine's Day
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saint%5FValentine%27s%5FDay
Lo! I lay them on thy tomb;
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20
A Little Child's Monument/At his Grave
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FAt%5Fhis%5FGrave
Thou worst one!"
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593
Balaustion's Adventure/III
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII
          December's Nones are gay,
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20
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
Of faithful service, and careful thought,
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30
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/The spirit of the vanished island
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FThe%5Fspirit%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fvanished%5Fisland
Sees the water-sapphires gleaming
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20
Mooni
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mooni
Which, without knowledge, furious bigots feel,
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1,771
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
And Heaven be witness I pay my toll,
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35
The Death of Huss
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDeath%5Fof%5FHuss
All the pain and all the sorrow
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43
Gloomily the Clouds
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gloomily%5Fthe%5FClouds
Now there is folks in this here world,
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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
Arise, and work! We have no time for leisure Whose sky is overcast.
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Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1696/The Night Cometh
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1696%2FThe%5FNight%5FCometh
But speaks of patient mild endurance, soft
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Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Poetic Sketches - Sketch Fifth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FPoetic%5FSketches%5F%2D%5FSketch%5FFifth
Unheeding nibble, run, or bite—
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22
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/In Summer Time
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FIn%5FSummer%5FTime
“Why, Doctor, I thought you’d been better brought up. An Album’s a handbook of Friends.”
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5
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/A definition
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F5%2FA%5Fdefinition
  The crown of all, we met to part no more."
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70
Edwin Morris; or, the Lake
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Edwin%5FMorris%3B%5For%2C%5Fthe%5FLake
Be wise, my fair, and gently treat
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5
Written in a Quarrel
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Written%5Fin%5Fa%5FQuarrel
Its merest accidence and alphabet;
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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
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
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2
The Hound of Heaven
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHound%5Fof%5FHeaven
And scythes, and sickles, and scissors; a whirl
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210
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FSword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed
Nor high-heeled boot, nor corset laced
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Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1695/A Model Maiden
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1695%2FA%5FModel%5FMaiden
Ser Raff, the ryche Rugbe,
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The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
Youth and I and Love together! Other times and other themes
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The Poems of Henry Kendall/Coogee
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fof%5FHenry%5FKendall%2FCoogee
Of silver silk, whereon the red
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37
A Sunset Fantasy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSunset%5FFantasy
With will and power to wing my way,
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13
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Atalanta, represented as a Huntress with her bow
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FAtalanta%2C%5Frepresented%5Fas%5Fa%5FHuntress%5Fwith%5Fher%5Fbow
What realms of sorrow or delight
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The Wayfarers (Essex)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWayfarers%5F%28Essex%29
And many a private soldier,
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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
When wise Minerva still was youngAnd just the least romantic,
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The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 1/The Origin of Didactic Poetry
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F1%2FThe%5FOrigin%5Fof%5FDidactic%5FPoetry