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O beams of mercy; beat on sorrow's cloud,
| 8 | 475 |
St. Peter's Complaint
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
|
Will fill my soul with music and with song;
| 9 | 15 |
Poems of Passion/The Common Lot
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FThe%5FCommon%5FLot
|
Of good in embryo.
| 4 | 42 |
Marsupial Bill
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marsupial%5FBill
|
Soil’d on the surface, haply (if the touch
| 8 | 21 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/"At Sempach"
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2F%22At%5FSempach%22
|
Yet let this thought thy tigrish courage pass:
| 8 | 945 |
Astrophel and Stella
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
|
And all these dreams but wearied me the more.
| 9 | 2,308 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
|
'O, Joe, don't help to kill so fine a man;
| 10 | 616 |
Dauber
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
|
Sleep and rest my little darling
| 6 | 97 |
The Soul Of A Century/The water sprite
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FThe%5Fwater%5Fsprite
|
That, under Thee, we may possess
| 6 | 21 |
The Children's Song
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChildren%27s%5FSong
|
Wither'd at dew so sweet and virulent;
| 7 | 147 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia
|
The city crushed him,
| 4 | 8 |
Translations from the Chinese/A Pattern in the Mud
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FA%5FPattern%5Fin%5Fthe%5FMud
|
Wrapt in the costly furs, and silks, and laces,
| 9 | 13 |
Poems of Cheer/Nothing But Stones
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FNothing%5FBut%5FStones
|
Because I sought it far from men,
| 7 | 96 |
Naulahka (headings)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Naulahka%5F%28headings%29
|
Ah she doth depart
| 4 | 4 |
I told my love
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I%5Ftold%5Fmy%5Flove
|
When the green was showing on tree and hedge,
| 9 | 2 |
Poems of Cheer/Unrest
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FUnrest
|
'Mid sweltering heat the shoots bear seed—Can ought here from its slumber cease?
| 13 | 10 |
An Anthology of Modern Bohemian Poetry/Moravian Landscape
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FModern%5FBohemian%5FPoetry%2FMoravian%5FLandscape
|
Much study, and some talent, day by day,
| 8 | 2,514 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
|
Since they whose muses have the highest flown
| 8 | 10 |
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell (no source)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Heroic%5FStanzas%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FOliver%5FCromwell%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
|
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
| 6 | 8 |
My Love Is Like to Ice
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FLove%5FIs%5FLike%5Fto%5FIce
|
As well as those by Christian made and Jew;
| 9 | 121 |
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
|
And higher thoughts higher existence crave.
| 6 | 24 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Colgong on the Ganges
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1839%2FColgong%5Fon%5Fthe%5FGanges
|
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
| 9 | 81 |
Jungle Books (headings)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jungle%5FBooks%5F%28headings%29
|
To each and all who so had sorrowed
| 8 | 91 |
A Little Child's Monument/In the Alps
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FIn%5Fthe%5FAlps
|
The bells chimed Holy, Holy, Holy;
| 6 | 532 |
The Everlasting Mercy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
|
Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear
| 9 | 7 |
Mutability (Wordsworth)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mutability%5F%28Wordsworth%29
|
A fryar whom she thought a saint,came there to lodge that night,
| 12 | 135 |
Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy
|
F'om one dat raaly needs to eat.
| 7 | 32 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/De Way T'ings Come
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDe%5FWay%5FT%27ings%5FCome
|
Cheves slowlie on, and then embollen clangs,
| 7 | 37 |
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FExcelente%5FBalade%5Fof%5FCharitie
|
Not understood.
| 2 | 15 |
An Anthology of Australian Verse/Not Understood
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FNot%5FUnderstood
|
hyrstedne hrofhalgum tunglum
| 3 | 1,147 |
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
|
There was a youth called Romeo,
| 6 | 7 |
An Anthology of Australian Verse/Players
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FPlayers
|
That is at least one definite "false note."
| 8 | 36 |
Prufrock and Other Observations/Portrait of a Lady
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPortrait%5Fof%5Fa%5FLady
|
Our darling, glorious, health-rosed,
| 4 | 85 |
A Little Child's Monument/Music and the Child
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FMusic%5Fand%5Fthe%5FChild
|
Forsaken are ye?—so was he,—
| 5 | 32 |
The Defection of the Disciples
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDefection%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDisciples
|
They wave:—from out their fragrant tops
| 6 | 24 |
Valley of Unrest
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Valley%5Fof%5FUnrest
|
His sense that no one else was dressed.
| 8 | 466 |
Reynard The Fox Part I
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
|
Whether in Eden bowers Thy welcome voice
| 7 | 1,805 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
Poor layman I, for sacred rites unfit.
| 7 | 1,092 |
Astrophel and Stella
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
|
For he has my destruction wrought,as you shall understand.
| 9 | 250 |
Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy
|
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
| 10 | 40 |
Mountain Interval/Birches
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FBirches
|
gargewinnes. þær on greot gefeoll
| 5 | 307 |
Poem of Judith
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJudith
|
And all the sun seemed poured on me,—
| 8 | 15 |
Rosemary
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rosemary
|
We can but strew fresh flowers upon the grave.
| 9 | 8 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1715/Buried
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1715%2FBuried
|
“Can’t a man speak of his own child he’s lost?”
| 10 | 37 |
North of Boston/Home Burial
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FHome%5FBurial
|
My garden makes a desert spot;
| 6 | 21 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Poet and His Song
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FPoet%5Fand%5FHis%5FSong
|
Julian (aside.) How true love's memory is!—
| 7 | 38 |
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Scene 1
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FScene%5F1
|
And in the ghostly palm-trees the sleepy tune
| 8 | 10 |
Trade Winds
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Trade%5FWinds
|
Betwixt two marble shafts:—there they reposed,
| 6 | 416 |
The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia
|
But the mandrakes, and toadstools, and docks, and darnels,
| 9 | 291 |
Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems/The Sensitive Plant
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FUnbound%3B%5Fa%5Flyrical%5Fdrama%5Fin%5Ffour%5Facts%5Fwith%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FThe%5FSensitive%5FPlant
|
From the old man come back to the old swimmin'-hole.
| 10 | 16 |
The Old Swimmin' Hole
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FSwimmin%27%5FHole
|
Eyes the headlong torrent leaping —
| 6 | 22 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1647/Elf-King's Youngest Daughter
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F128%2FIssue%5F1647%2FElf%2DKing%27s%5FYoungest%5FDaughter
|
The Prophet watched for one dear glance
| 7 | 3,475 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
But the man to beat old Erin's best
| 8 | 41 |
Songs of Action/A Ballad of the Ranks
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FAction%2FA%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FRanks
|
On Stages play'd by Mountebanks,
| 5 | 154 |
British Wonders
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
|
Who fell that day beneath his ire:
| 7 | 847 |
The Siege of Corinth
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
|
Broiled, dried-up, juiceless as the dusty bones
| 7 | 10 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1629/The Swine-herd of Gadara
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F126%2FIssue%5F1629%2FThe%5FSwine%2Dherd%5Fof%5FGadara
|
Some — give trouble for half a year.
| 8 | 14 |
A Death-Bed (Kipling)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDeath%2DBed%5F%28Kipling%29
|
With joyous hearts and skipping feet.
| 6 | 64 |
St. John's Eve (Kochanowski)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29
|
I feel in my heart it were better for meTo double the risk of rejection,
| 15 | 7 |
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3813/The Wiser Choice
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3813%2FThe%5FWiser%5FChoice
|
Was stained one moment by a flush of red.
| 9 | 1,855 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
|
Whereon grim phantoms went and came:
| 6 | 40 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/Sir Tristem
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FSir%5FTristem
|
To the deep wells of light;
| 6 | 76 |
The Blessed Damozel (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlessed%5FDamozel%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29
|
Because I oft in dark abstracted guise
| 7 | 367 |
Astrophel and Stella
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
|
And gave her hand to the stranger knight.
| 8 | 46 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/The lay of the lady and the hound
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FThe%5Flay%5Fof%5Fthe%5Flady%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fhound
|
When I sat 'neath a strange roof-tree
| 7 | 49 |
From Retrospection
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From%5FRetrospection
|
Truth shall rise over the militant drum,
| 7 | 18 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Conquerors
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FConquerors
|
For we played Molongo cricket – and M'Dougal topped the score!
| 11 | 81 |
How M'Dougal Topped the Score
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FM%27Dougal%5FTopped%5Fthe%5FScore
|
And on the instant from beyond away
| 7 | 213 |
The Wanderer (Masefield)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderer%5F%28Masefield%29
|
Have the sweetest of features and names.
| 7 | 40 |
Bill the Bullock-Driver
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bill%5Fthe%5FBullock%2DDriver
|
Came up from the swamps in the run.
| 8 | 42 |
Camped by the Creek
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Camped%5Fby%5Fthe%5FCreek
|
A crone of sixty years is one,
| 7 | 13 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/The plague of Elliant
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F1%2FThe%5Fplague%5Fof%5FElliant
|
Thy song is sorrowful as winds
| 6 | 45 |
Landon in The New Monthly 1835/Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1835%2FStanzas%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FMrs%5FHemans
|
Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard.
| 10 | 13 |
North of Boston/The Generations of Men
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FGenerations%5Fof%5FMen
|
What we behold is censured by our eyes.
| 8 | 8 |
Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%5FEver%5FLoved%2C%5FThat%5FLoved%5FNot%5Fat%5FFirst%5FSight
|
In that unmeaning arbitrary way.
| 5 | 379 |
Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall
|
You broke the rules, and if you choose to scatter
| 10 | 372 |
Dauber
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
|
And o'er his beating fingers went,
| 6 | 549 |
The Siege of Corinth
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
|
With a heart for any fate;
| 6 | 33 |
Voices of the Night/A Psalm of Life
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FA%5FPsalm%5Fof%5FLife
|
Or seige unseen in heaven reflects its beams,
| 8 | 535 |
The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming
|
“It’s good luck when you move in to begin
| 9 | 100 |
Mountain Interval/In the Home Stretch
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FIn%5Fthe%5FHome%5FStretch
|
Lends not his tender aid! O! Save me dear
| 9 | 115 |
Sarangadhara
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sarangadhara
|
Re-echo from the hill.
| 4 | 52 |
Jim's Whip
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jim%27s%5FWhip
|
In the purple failing light,
| 5 | 2 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Corn-song
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FCorn%2Dsong
|
Call out your forces!—sure there 's need!—
| 7 | 60 |
Poems Sigourney 1827/The Comet of 1825
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FThe%5FComet%5Fof%5F1825
|
In their own quiet glade should sleep
| 7 | 2,547 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
Motionless pillars of the brazen heaven;--
| 6 | 16 |
Summer Wind
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Summer%5FWind
|
What 's dat stan'in' by de fence?
| 7 | 8 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Delinquent
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FDelinquent
|
My heart was not so heavy then
| 7 | 19 |
The Bluebell (Anne Brontë)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBluebell%5F%28Anne%5FBront%C3%AB%29
|
Where each blossom her addresses
| 5 | 32 |
Commonweal/Vol. 3/Number 12/Poems of Brazil
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commonweal%2FVol%2E%5F3%2FNumber%5F12%2FPoems%5Fof%5FBrazil
|
"Oh, the skies they are blue, the fields are green,
| 10 | 10 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Two Songs
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTwo%5FSongs
|
But trace not o'er the former way,
| 7 | 3,208 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
Hast thou forgot,
| 3 | 11 |
Alienage
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alienage
|
But timber brought us to grief at last;
| 8 | 74 |
The Story of Mongrel Grey
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStory%5Fof%5FMongrel%5FGrey
|
Swiftly he sails . . . as a stork in flight,
| 11 | 131 |
May (Mácha)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
|
With canopies of purple and of gold!
| 7 | 52 |
The Creek of the Four Graves
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCreek%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFour%5FGraves
|
Wisely forgetful! O’er the ocean swell
| 6 | 143 |
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281834%29
|
Like thunder they fall on the anvil, and lo!
| 9 | 5 |
Bohemian legends and other poems/Smith's Song
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FSmith%27s%5FSong
|
The topaz fire of votive urns.
| 6 | 25 |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/The Coal Picker
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FThe%5FCoal%5FPicker
|
Were taken up, not dead, but lam'd:
| 7 | 1,119 |
British Wonders
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
|
He tramples on earth, or tosses on high
| 8 | 768 |
The Siege of Corinth
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
|
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