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That curlew-calling time in Irish dusk
| 6 | 25 |
Biography (Masefield)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Biography%5F%28Masefield%29
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Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret;
| 8 | 153 |
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Fto%5FDr%5FArbuthnot
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Poor woman, she gaed to the Priest, And to him she made her complaint,
| 14 | 4 |
The Merry Muses of Caledonia/The Case of Conscience
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMerry%5FMuses%5Fof%5FCaledonia%2FThe%5FCase%5Fof%5FConscience
|
By this time many folk had gathered
| 7 | 956 |
The Everlasting Mercy
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
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But such as turn to use, and fillThe summer of our days with fruit.
| 14 | 10 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Violet
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FViolet
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And motion of the north wind and the south,
| 9 | 236 |
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/St. Dorothy
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FSt%2E%5FDorothy
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Round the fair dead boy his hounds go, dismally howling;
| 10 | 13 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/The dirge of Adonis
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F4%2FThe%5Fdirge%5Fof%5FAdonis
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But ah, he reads and prays,
| 6 | 11 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Differences
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDifferences
|
Let me submit to forget her; I must; I already forget her.
| 12 | 65 |
The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto V
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FV
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But weak faith never may preſume;
| 6 | 424 |
Wife of Beith
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith
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To love it too.
| 4 | 30 |
Care for the Lowest
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Care%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FLowest
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Chirping his slang above passionate fires?—
| 6 | 40 |
The Dial (Third Series)/Volume 75/Six Movements
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDial%5F%28Third%5FSeries%29%2FVolume%5F75%2FSix%5FMovements
|
So he called to him a Hobden of the old unaltered blood,
| 12 | 19 |
A Diversity of Creatures/The Land
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDiversity%5Fof%5FCreatures%2FThe%5FLand
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But only steel and rubber, oil and smell.Where once men safely strodeAlong the open road,
| 15 | 5 |
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3813/The Passing of the Cow
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3813%2FThe%5FPassing%5Fof%5Fthe%5FCow
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Will the sweet sky and ocean broad
| 7 | 15 |
The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 1/The Chartist's Complaint
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F1%2FThe%5FChartist%27s%5FComplaint
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For the nuptial feast now made is,
| 7 | 14 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To Dan
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5FDan
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When black and white drink, wimmin, fight –
| 8 | 53 |
Lost and Given Over
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lost%5Fand%5FGiven%5FOver
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Two grimy hands in friendship joined —And it was Christmas Day.
| 11 | 60 |
The Fire at Ross's Farm
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFire%5Fat%5FRoss%27s%5FFarm
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That Christ had taught me what to be,
| 8 | 1,588 |
The Everlasting Mercy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
|
Mathusal heoldmaga yrfe,
| 3 | 1,461 |
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
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Might one from other know:
| 5 | 619 |
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
|
48 THE SALTAIR NA RANN
| 5 | 133 |
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Death of Adam
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FAdam
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—Ay, with their ashes hath the wind been sown,
| 9 | 231 |
The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
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Ravished by her splendour.
| 4 | 5 |
The Heathrose
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHeathrose
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Or benefit to outweigh its loss?
| 6 | 23 |
A Song of Dreams
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fof%5FDreams
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Still I smells the old tarpaulin me an' Jimmy useter throw
| 11 | 40 |
The Song of Old Joe Swallow
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSong%5Fof%5FOld%5FJoe%5FSwallow
|
Death? Hardly may we think or hope, when wePass likewise thither where to-night is he,
| 15 | 26 |
Astrophel and Other Poems/A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FA%5FSequence%5Fof%5FSonnets%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FRobert%5FBrowning
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Voices only, lipless voices, and the fisherman turns pale,
| 9 | 19 |
An Anthology of Australian Verse/Soul Ferry
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FSoul%5FFerry
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But how to do it? A word let fall
| 9 | 101 |
Conroy's Gap
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Conroy%27s%5FGap
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While thus Time and Tune he is flaying;
| 8 | 32 |
The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 5/Cornucopia
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F5%2FCornucopia
|
It’s as sound as the day when it was cut—
| 10 | 202 |
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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That, more and more, to my sad heart revealed
| 9 | 2,203 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
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Might now befall.
| 3 | 13 |
The Masque of the Foresaken Gods
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMasque%5Fof%5Fthe%5FForesaken%5FGods
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But so it is: The trusty gunDisastrously exploded
| 8 | 15 |
Natural Perversities
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural%5FPerversities
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No man had seen him since he rode away
| 9 | 301 |
Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme
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And where we look for comfort or for calm,
| 9 | 6,073 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
Those shrieking birds made out of sound
| 7 | 698 |
The Everlasting Mercy
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
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The eve is still,
| 4 | 4 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/On the River
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FOn%5Fthe%5FRiver
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on æghwylcne þe ðær inne com
| 6 | 50 |
Poem of Judith
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJudith
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Of sunless dry geraniums
| 4 | 63 |
Prufrock and Other Observations/Rhapsody on a Windy Night
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FRhapsody%5Fon%5Fa%5FWindy%5FNight
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A kingdom lost, but hoped no mite of gain;
| 9 | 548 |
St. Peter's Complaint
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
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Bid him roll his dusty swag up, or I’ll break his no-good neck."
| 13 | 4 |
Beyond His Jurisdiction
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beyond%5FHis%5FJurisdiction
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And timely rest have wanted, but fair Virgin
| 8 | 644 |
Comus and other poems/Comus
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus
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I 've a humble little motto
| 6 | 1 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Keep A-Pluggin' Away
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FKeep%5FA%2DPluggin%27%5FAway
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They haven't got no noses,
| 5 | 28 |
The Song of Quoodle
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSong%5Fof%5FQuoodle
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But could my kind engross me? No!
| 7 | 13 |
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FDisastrous%5FSpread%5Fof%5FAestheticism%5Fin%5Fall%5FClasses
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Else let us keep our fast within,
| 7 | 1,086 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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Sat looking out upon the twilight scene,
| 7 | 878 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
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"He ought to be home," said the old man, "without there's something amiss.
| 13 | 1 |
Lost (Paterson)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lost%5F%28Paterson%29
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Whilst Lumber-Pies came more in play,
| 6 | 189 |
British Wonders
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
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Though set with skill, and chosen out with care;
| 9 | 24 |
The Coronet
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCoronet
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An' collogued wid Satan, an' dat what de matter.
| 9 | 35 |
De Appile-Tree
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/De%5FAppile%2DTree
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NORA: A SERENADE
| 3 | 2 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Nora: a Serenade
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FNora%3A%5Fa%5FSerenade
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Under the rude and wasteful sky!"
| 6 | 1,681 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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Go, and with holy rite appease the wrath of Apollo?
| 10 | 61 |
Translations of Iliad
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Fof%5FIliad
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Sullen, he mingles with his kindred duſt,
| 7 | 170 |
Slavery, a poem
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Slavery%2C%5Fa%5Fpoem
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Spouting and frisking,
| 3 | 63 |
The Cataract of Lodore
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCataract%5Fof%5FLodore
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But I think it would be bettah,
| 7 | 69 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/An Ante-Bellum Sermon
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FAn%5FAnte%2DBellum%5FSermon
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And came at his command;
| 5 | 32 |
Variations on an Air
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Variations%5Fon%5Fan%5FAir
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Wight braver was none.
| 4 | 76 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/The hail-storm; or, The death of Bui
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FThe%5Fhail%2Dstorm%3B%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fdeath%5Fof%5FBui
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Which man and wife would scarce do now;
| 8 | 10 |
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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'Twas such an awkward place for falling out !
| 9 | 89 |
Ode to Messrs Green Robert Hollond and Monck Mason on their Late Balloon Expedition
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FMessrs%5FGreen%5FRobert%5FHollond%5Fand%5FMonck%5FMason%5Fon%5Ftheir%5FLate%5FBalloon%5FExpedition
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He manages to keep the upper hand
| 7 | 144 |
North of Boston/The Housekeeper
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FHousekeeper
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On French translation and Italian song.
| 6 | 42 |
Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prologue%5Fto%5FMr%2E%5FAddison%27s%5FCato
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By Timber from the blown-up Houses.
| 6 | 353 |
British Wonders
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
|
Below the Kirk, below the Hill,Below the Light-house top.
| 9 | 14 |
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
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Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost,
| 6 | 38 |
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
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"Steady, darling. There's lots of time,
| 6 | 25 |
The Mylora Elopement
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMylora%5FElopement
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Before I even brush the skirts of Woe.
| 8 | 2,880 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
|
The old philosopher
| 3 | 4 |
Translations from the Chinese/Apocalypse
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FApocalypse
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And the booming bitterns nested,
| 5 | 63 |
An Old Bush Road
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FOld%5FBush%5FRoad
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My cup is empty to-night,
| 5 | 1 |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Absence
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FAbsence
|
So rang of old the noble voice in vain
| 9 | 4 |
The Judgment of England
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FJudgment%5Fof%5FEngland
|
He who with pure dew laveth of Castaly
| 8 | 173 |
The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto I
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FI
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The wet was pelting on the pane
| 7 | 1,394 |
The Everlasting Mercy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
|
Supreme in all the arts of peace and war.
| 9 | 255 |
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
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Paul ſays, good brother, now ariſe,
| 6 | 382 |
Wife of Beith
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith
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SWELLED limbs, with no outline that you can descry,
| 9 | 2 |
Swelld limbs with no outline that you can descry
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Swelld%5Flimbs%5Fwith%5Fno%5Foutline%5Fthat%5Fyou%5Fcan%5Fdescry
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Your beauteous race shall be what you are now!
| 9 | 12 |
Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XX
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXX
|
Like ſhallow bards wha think they fiee,
| 7 | 533 |
Ancient history of three bonnets
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets
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With birds and gnats and large white butterflies
| 8 | 143 |
Aurora Leigh/First Book
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora%5FLeigh%2FFirst%5FBook
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All seems Infected that th' Infected spy,
| 7 | 492 |
An Essay on Criticism
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism
|
Beside me Amaryllis weeps;
| 4 | 7 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Farewell to Arcady
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FFarewell%5Fto%5FArcady
|
And in the forest disappeared.
| 5 | 40 |
The Parting (Brontë)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FParting%5F%28Bront%C3%AB%29
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I am the Serpent of the Ages.
| 7 | 25 |
Serpent
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Serpent
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Ez a boy kin be,
| 5 | 18 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Grievance
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FGrievance
|
proč tak se mi vracíš
| 5 | 162 |
A Book of Czech Verse/J. Wolker
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBook%5Fof%5FCzech%5FVerse%2FJ%2E%5FWolker
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Emblazoned glorious, bold and free,
| 5 | 19 |
Poems Sigourney 1834/Slavery
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1834%2FSlavery
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These dangerous rocks, and held the golden mean;
| 8 | 650 |
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
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Where the leaves are broad and the thicket hides,
| 9 | 3 |
An Indian Story
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FIndian%5FStory
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When in the bending skies
| 5 | 46 |
An Old Man's Reverie
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FOld%5FMan%27s%5FReverie
|
Why, through the alleys of the pine, do languid breezes sigh
| 11 | 23 |
At Devlin's Siding
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At%5FDevlin%27s%5FSiding
|
I shall remember this for aye and aye.
| 8 | 13 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To An Ingrate
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5FAn%5FIngrate
|
Dear critic, who my lightness so deplores,
| 7 | 1 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To A Captious Critic
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5FA%5FCaptious%5FCritic
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And all ye bold "Books" who are keeping a shop,
| 10 | 17 |
A Rule of the A.J.C.
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FRule%5Fof%5Fthe%5FA%2EJ%2EC%2E
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That will always comfort, save and shield.
| 7 | 32 |
House of Life (Quick)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/House%5Fof%5FLife%5F%28Quick%29
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Effects of lively heat must needs in nature grow.
| 9 | 110 |
Astrophel and Stella
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
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The shore-bell jangles above the thud, and the rush of naked feet;
| 12 | 14 |
The Call of the North
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCall%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNorth
|
With clouds of glory bright,
| 5 | 218 |
The Curse of Kehama/The Enchantress
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCurse%5Fof%5FKehama%2FThe%5FEnchantress
|
Brady had a little .25.
| 5 | 30 |
Duncan and Brady
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Duncan%5Fand%5FBrady
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