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Upon her bosom, with its gentle eyes
| 7 | 3 |
On Witnessing a Baptism
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FWitnessing%5Fa%5FBaptism
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Of systems yet unshaped, that hang immense
| 7 | 26 |
Song of a Comet
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fa%5FComet
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“If just one ship I have at sea
| 8 | 788 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
|
Is when you want to talk yourself,
| 7 | 15 |
The Disadvantages of the Hub Club
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDisadvantages%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHub%5FClub
|
great her Power is, like fabled hecate, she doth bind them to her law.
| 14 | 42 |
Then She bore Pale desire/edited
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Then%5FShe%5Fbore%5FPale%5Fdesire%2Fedited
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Down in the south, where the ships never go.
| 9 | 24 |
Beyond Kerguelen
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beyond%5FKerguelen
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The Grecian tongue as a grammarian.
| 6 | 83 |
The Soul Of A Century/T. Pomponius Atticus
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FT%2E%5FPomponius%5FAtticus
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Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
| 8 | 28 |
Care for the Lowest
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Care%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FLowest
|
Oh! teach me, with rapture and reverence due,
| 8 | 28 |
Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2/A Night Scene
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F1%2FIssue%5F2%2FA%5FNight%5FScene
|
Her companions came forth from their coral-roof'd bowers,
| 8 | 64 |
Poems Sigourney 1827/Sabrina
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FSabrina
|
No one went home that way. The only house
| 9 | 77 |
North of Boston/The Generations of Men
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FGenerations%5Fof%5FMen
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Of servants."
| 2 | 83 |
Balaustion's Adventure/V
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV
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My jeans are a match for Kate's gingham and hood;
| 10 | 10 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Riding To Town
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FRiding%5FTo%5FTown
|
Deliverer of the prison'd streams
| 5 | 65 |
Household Words/Volume 12/The Invalid's Mother
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Household%5FWords%2FVolume%5F12%2FThe%5FInvalid%27s%5FMother
|
Of mystery and splendour, and of space,
| 7 | 14 |
Poems of Optimism/Beauty
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FOptimism%2FBeauty
|
To me, whose first great duty is—to know?
| 8 | 1,513 |
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
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On the stars which your wonder
| 6 | 225 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf
|
From the lowly earth, to the vaulted skies,
| 8 | 32 |
Gradatim (unsourced)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gradatim%5F%28unsourced%29
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In ever-widening flow.
| 3 | 8 |
To the Teachers of America
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FTeachers%5Fof%5FAmerica
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Fire lit his eye of gray;
| 6 | 206 |
The Battle of New Orleans
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBattle%5Fof%5FNew%5FOrleans
|
We thought it truth, and when we saw her there
| 10 | 117 |
The Wanderer (Masefield)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderer%5F%28Masefield%29
|
No “goddess” she, and well, right well, she knows it,
| 10 | 31 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/"Taken from life"
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2F%22Taken%5Ffrom%5Flife%22
|
Not of the hidden rills, or quivering shades!
| 8 | 1,515 |
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 make our merits little weight prevail,
| 7 | 234 |
The Works of Henry Fielding/Of True Greatness. An Epistle to George Dodington, Esq.
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FOf%5FTrue%5FGreatness%2E%5FAn%5FEpistle%5Fto%5FGeorge%5FDodington%2C%5FEsq%2E
|
Dire disappointment that admits no cure,
| 6 | 557 |
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
|
And he was no soft-tongued apologist;He spoke straightforward, fearlessly uncowed;
| 10 | 13 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Frederick Douglass
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FFrederick%5FDouglass
|
Ah, who had known who had not seen
| 8 | 43 |
The Towers of Time
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTowers%5Fof%5FTime
|
That has lost the flame though it kept the glow,
| 10 | 14 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Growin' Gray
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FGrowin%27%5FGray
|
Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole,
| 8 | 6 |
Apologia pro Vita Sua (Coleridge)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Apologia%5Fpro%5FVita%5FSua%5F%28Coleridge%29
|
On me, I wonder, thou — the poor poltroon
| 9 | 552 |
Balaustion's Adventure/III
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII
|
Or left his tale to the heraldic banners
| 8 | 34 |
The Haunted House (Hood)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHaunted%5FHouse%5F%28Hood%29
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There came Lord Leicester's spirit and It scratched upon the door,
| 11 | 16 |
Rewards and Fairies/The Looking-Glass
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rewards%5Fand%5FFairies%2FThe%5FLooking%2DGlass
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For these simples, used aright,
| 5 | 27 |
A Charm
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FCharm
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To spangle all the happy shores
| 6 | 61 |
In Memoriam (Tennyson)/Epilogue
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5FMemoriam%5F%28Tennyson%29%2FEpilogue
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To triumph over kings and princes;
| 6 | 30 |
The Works of Henry Fielding/The Queen of Beauty, t'other day
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FThe%5FQueen%5Fof%5FBeauty%2C%5Ft%27other%5Fday
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And clasping and twining,
| 4 | 30 |
Sylvia the Fair
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sylvia%5Fthe%5FFair
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An arid daylight shines along the beach
| 7 | 1 |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Irony
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FIrony
|
As if such soothing to defy.
| 6 | 184 |
Landon in The New Monthly 1831/The Convict
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1831%2FThe%5FConvict
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I would not soil these pure Ambrosial weeds,
| 8 | 24 |
Comus and other poems/Comus
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus
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I have found favour in the sight of God;
| 9 | 1 |
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3820/The Evangelist
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3820%2FThe%5FEvangelist
|
Till I meet the overlanders with the cattle comin' down --
| 11 | 35 |
A Bushman's Song
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBushman%27s%5FSong
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And there endowed with every grace
| 6 | 13 |
The Farm House by the River
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFarm%5FHouse%5Fby%5Fthe%5FRiver
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So, buried with our LORD, we'll chose our eyes
| 9 | 1,858 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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That life has hired to fight with fate.
| 8 | 8 |
Counter-Attack and Other Poems/In Barracks
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Counter%2DAttack%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FIn%5FBarracks
|
It had been strange, even in a dreamTo have seen those dead men rise.
| 14 | 165 |
Lyrical Ballads (1798)/The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical%5FBallads%5F%281798%29%2FThe%5FRime%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAncyent%5FMarinere
|
past rows of heartless homes and hearths unlit,
| 8 | 3 |
Towards the Source : 1894-97 : I : 10
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Towards%5Fthe%5FSource%5F%3A%5F1894%2D97%5F%3A%5FI%5F%3A%5F10
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But she sobbed from the lloor, 'God forgets us, and I have forgotten the way!'
| 15 | 92 |
The Last Bullet
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLast%5FBullet
|
Ah, this is ours! that gentle Love
| 7 | 1 |
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Love Sleeping beneath a Palm-Tree
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FLove%5FSleeping%5Fbeneath%5Fa%5FPalm%2DTree
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If they must mourn, or may rejoice
| 7 | 802 |
The Siege of Corinth
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
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And dig till they come to it.
| 7 | 9 |
The Hyaenas
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHyaenas
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But, lacking it, can only say—adieu!”
| 6 | 2,698 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
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While my heart is aching dumbly for the faces in the street.
| 12 | 42 |
Faces in the Street
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Faces%5Fin%5Fthe%5FStreet
|
From roof to roof, from house to house,
| 8 | 1,114 |
The Everlasting Mercy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
|
And nought his onward march can stop
| 7 | 27 |
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3820/A Food War
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3820%2FA%5FFood%5FWar
|
My clan endured their kindred;
| 5 | 13 |
The Cross-Current
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCross%2DCurrent
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A tall pale woman, grey and bent,
| 7 | 1,350 |
The Everlasting Mercy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
|
To conquer, or to fall.—
| 5 | 5 |
Poems Sigourney 1827/Missolonghi
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FMissolonghi
|
Labor that teaches men to bear and wait -
| 9 | 22 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1712/George Odger
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1712%2FGeorge%5FOdger
|
When I think of the garden I left behind.
| 9 | 36 |
Poems of Passion/The Lost Garden
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FThe%5FLost%5FGarden
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There was danger around him and death in the rear;
| 10 | 6 |
Black Bess
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black%5FBess
|
When Christ ascended, entered in, and sateWith victor face sublimely overwept,
| 11 | 941 |
Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows
|
When the laborious wife slept little,
| 6 | 424 |
The Works of Henry Fielding/Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, Modernised In Burlesque Verse
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FPart%5Fof%5FJuvenal%27s%5FSixth%5FSatire%2C%5FModernised%5FIn%5FBurlesque%5FVerse
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Some message did the winds deliver
| 6 | 13 |
Poems of Cheer/Leudemanns-on-the-river
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FLeudemanns%2Don%2Dthe%2Driver
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One branch had touched with dusk her lips and chin,
| 10 | 161 |
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Two Dreams
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FTwo%5FDreams
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With the falling of the snow,
| 6 | 4 |
Birds of Passage (Collection)/Aftermath
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Birds%5Fof%5FPassage%5F%28Collection%29%2FAftermath
|
It needs must be, and so it rather lingers:
| 9 | 625 |
Beppo (Lord Byron)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
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God sleep his soul! five oceans roll
| 7 | 21 |
The Great Grey Water
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGreat%5FGrey%5FWater
|
So for Him after Calvary?Yea, voices call to me, my love,
| 11 | 77 |
A Little Child's Monument/Old Scenes revisited
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FOld%5FScenes%5Frevisited
|
Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack,
| 7 | 11 |
Cargoes
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cargoes
|
A vault of ruin and decay;
| 6 | 1,898 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
I was in the kitchen
| 5 | 3 |
Translations from the Chinese/Another Postponement
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FAnother%5FPostponement
|
Fairest of wonders that Nature weaves;
| 6 | 6 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Now, and then
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FNow%2C%5Fand%5Fthen
|
As soon as my turn was served.
| 7 | 76 |
The Vagabond (Lawson)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FVagabond%5F%28Lawson%29
|
'Yes! you've asked me far too late,
| 7 | 57 |
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCourtship%5Fof%5Fthe%5FYonghy%2DBonghy%2DB%C3%B2
|
I mov'd my lips: the Pilot shriek'dAnd fell down in a fit.
| 12 | 305 |
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
|
Venison, the red and the roe, with mutton; and grouse succeeding;
| 11 | 68 |
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/1
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F1
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And from the thickets all about
| 6 | 7 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/By Rugged Ways
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FBy%5FRugged%5FWays
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For Arts, by which they gain .mw-parser-output .wst-tooltip{cursor:help;border-bottom:thin dotted cornflowerblue}.mw-parser-output .wst-tooltip-nodash{border-bottom:none}sheir Ends,
| 12 | 1,160 |
British Wonders
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
|
Of late, in one of those most weary hours,
| 9 | 1 |
The Garden of Boccaccio
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGarden%5Fof%5FBoccaccio
|
The general wish to benefit our kind.
| 7 | 49 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836/Hindoo Temples and Palace at Madura
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1836%2FHindoo%5FTemples%5Fand%5FPalace%5Fat%5FMadura
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But thee, my flower whose breath was given
| 8 | 797 |
The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming
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I fear'd for heavenly sign an earthly rod;
| 8 | 52 |
St. Peter's Complaint
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
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Who all give back, one after t'other,
| 7 | 332 |
Christabel; Kubla Khan; The Pains of Sleep (1816)/Christabel
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Christabel%3B%5FKubla%5FKhan%3B%5FThe%5FPains%5Fof%5FSleep%5F%281816%29%2FChristabel
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To fix belief that it is sober truth.
| 8 | 12 |
Modern Czech Poetry/Pasquino on the death of Pope Hadrian VI.
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern%5FCzech%5FPoetry%2FPasquino%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fdeath%5Fof%5FPope%5FHadrian%5FVI%2E
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Deep ferny dells are hidden
| 5 | 10 |
The Blue Mountains (Lawson poem)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlue%5FMountains%5F%28Lawson%5Fpoem%29
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O Adam, some way, some time, we have done wrong,
| 10 | 398 |
Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall
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In waiting for the Lord he loved.
| 7 | 5,108 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
Ere passed the day, while Vivian walked with her.
| 9 | 1,505 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
|
Frankie and the judge walked down the stairs, walked outside the sign.
| 12 | 13 |
Frankie and Albert
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Frankie%5Fand%5FAlbert
|
"Why not?" said I. "Why not? But no.
| 8 | 601 |
The Everlasting Mercy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
|
Set well back from the road in rank lodged grass,
| 10 | 4 |
North of Boston/The Black Cottage
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FBlack%5FCottage
|
Thy mother a lady, both lovely and bright;
| 8 | 2 |
Lullaby of an Infant Chief (unsourced)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lullaby%5Fof%5Fan%5FInfant%5FChief%5F%28unsourced%29
|
His country, or was slack when she requir'd
| 8 | 89 |
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
|
Who, with His own true Israel,
| 6 | 1,420 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
So Jacob caught the roving fit and took the drovers' track
| 11 | 17 |
Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saltbush%5FBill%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPatriarchs
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from the West, the babbling dun breeze.
| 7 | 79 |
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Creation of the Universe
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FCreation%5Fof%5Fthe%5FUniverse
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And stay I did, and joked and talked,
| 8 | 1,090 |
The Everlasting Mercy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
|
Upon the grave of us, the living dead?
| 8 | 8 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To A Violet Found On All Saints' Day
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5FA%5FViolet%5FFound%5FOn%5FAll%5FSaints%27%5FDay
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The wet hill-heads are bright,
| 5 | 18 |
Orara
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Orara
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And the unremitting tramp
| 4 | 28 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Veteran
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FVeteran
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