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Upon her bosom, with its gentle eyes
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3
On Witnessing a Baptism
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FWitnessing%5Fa%5FBaptism
Of systems yet unshaped, that hang immense
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26
Song of a Comet
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fa%5FComet
“If just one ship I have at sea
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788
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
   Is when you want to talk yourself,
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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.
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42
Then She bore Pale desire/edited
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Then%5FShe%5Fbore%5FPale%5Fdesire%2Fedited
   Down in the south, where the ships never go.
9
24
Beyond Kerguelen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beyond%5FKerguelen
The Grecian tongue as a grammarian.
6
83
The Soul Of A Century/T. Pomponius Atticus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FT%2E%5FPomponius%5FAtticus
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,
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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,
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64
Poems Sigourney 1827/Sabrina
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FSabrina
No one went home that way. The only house
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77
North of Boston/The Generations of Men
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FGenerations%5Fof%5FMen
Of servants."
2
83
Balaustion's Adventure/V
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV
My jeans are a match for Kate's gingham and hood;
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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,
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14
Poems of Optimism/Beauty
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FOptimism%2FBeauty
To me, whose first great duty is—to know?
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1,513
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
    On the stars which your wonder
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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,
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32
Gradatim (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gradatim%5F%28unsourced%29
  In ever-widening flow.
3
8
To the Teachers of America
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FTeachers%5Fof%5FAmerica
Fire lit his eye of gray;
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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,
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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!
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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,
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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,
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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;
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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
  For these simples, used aright,
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27
A Charm
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FCharm
To spangle all the happy shores
6
61
In Memoriam (Tennyson)/Epilogue
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5FMemoriam%5F%28Tennyson%29%2FEpilogue
To triumph over kings and princes;
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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
And clasping and twining,
4
30
Sylvia the Fair
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sylvia%5Fthe%5FFair
An arid daylight shines along the beach
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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
I would not soil these pure Ambrosial weeds,
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24
Comus and other poems/Comus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus
I have found favour in the sight of God;
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1
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3820/The Evangelist
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
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
   So, buried with our LORD, we'll chose our eyes
9
1,858
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical%5FBallads%5F%281798%29%2FThe%5FRime%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAncyent%5FMarinere
past rows of heartless homes and hearths unlit,
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3
Towards the Source : 1894-97 : I : 10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Towards%5Fthe%5FSource%5F%3A%5F1894%2D97%5F%3A%5FI%5F%3A%5F10
But she sobbed from the lloor, 'God forgets us, and I have forgotten the way!'
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92
The Last Bullet
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
If they must mourn, or may rejoice
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802
The Siege of Corinth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
  And dig till they come to it.
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9
The Hyaenas
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHyaenas
But, lacking it, can only say—adieu!”
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2,698
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
While my heart is aching dumbly for the faces in the street.
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42
Faces in the Street
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Faces%5Fin%5Fthe%5FStreet
From roof to roof, from house to house,
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1,114
The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
And nought his onward march can stop
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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;
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13
The Cross-Current
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCross%2DCurrent
A tall pale woman, grey and bent,
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1,350
The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
                  To conquer, or to fall.—
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5
Poems Sigourney 1827/Missolonghi
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FMissolonghi
Labor that teaches men to bear and wait -
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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.
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36
Poems of Passion/The Lost Garden
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FThe%5FLost%5FGarden
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,
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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
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FPart%5Fof%5FJuvenal%27s%5FSixth%5FSatire%2C%5FModernised%5FIn%5FBurlesque%5FVerse
Some message did the winds deliver
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13
Poems of Cheer/Leudemanns-on-the-river
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FLeudemanns%2Don%2Dthe%2Driver
One branch had touched with dusk her lips and chin,
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161
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Two Dreams
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FTwo%5FDreams
With the falling of the snow,
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4
Birds of Passage (Collection)/Aftermath
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Birds%5Fof%5FPassage%5F%28Collection%29%2FAftermath
It needs must be, and so it rather lingers:
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625
Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
God sleep his soul! five oceans roll
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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,
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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;
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1,898
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
I was in the kitchen
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3
Translations from the Chinese/Another Postponement
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FAnother%5FPostponement
Fairest of wonders that Nature weaves;
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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.
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76
The Vagabond (Lawson)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FVagabond%5F%28Lawson%29
    'Yes! you've asked me far too late,
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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.
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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;
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68
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/1
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F1
And from the thickets all about
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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
    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,
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1,160
British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
Of late, in one of those most weary hours,
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1
The Garden of Boccaccio
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGarden%5Fof%5FBoccaccio
The general wish to benefit our kind.
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49
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836/Hindoo Temples and Palace at Madura
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
But thee, my flower whose breath was given
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797
The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming
I fear'd for heavenly sign an earthly rod;
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52
St. Peter's Complaint
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
Who all give back, one after t'other,
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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
To fix belief that it is sober truth.
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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
   Deep ferny dells are hidden
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10
The Blue Mountains (Lawson poem)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlue%5FMountains%5F%28Lawson%5Fpoem%29
O Adam, some way, some time, we have done wrong,
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398
Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall
   In waiting for the Lord he loved.
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5,108
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Ere passed the day, while Vivian walked with her.
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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.
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13
Frankie and Albert
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Frankie%5Fand%5FAlbert
"Why not?" said I. "Why not? But no.
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601
The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
Set well back from the road in rank lodged grass,
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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;
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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
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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,
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1,420
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
So Jacob caught the roving fit and took the drovers' track
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17
Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saltbush%5FBill%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPatriarchs
from the West, the babbling dun breeze.
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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
And stay I did, and joked and talked,
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1,090
The Everlasting Mercy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
  Upon the grave of us, the living dead?
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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
   The wet hill-heads are bright,
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Orara
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Orara
And the unremitting tramp
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Veteran
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FVeteran