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The bonny young Squire,He dreams in a spell;
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11
Weird Tales/Volume 36/Issue 4/The Wood-Wife
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F36%2FIssue%5F4%2FThe%5FWood%2DWife
Of heart on prone tumultuous heart,
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2
The Barrier (Smith)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBarrier%5F%28Smith%29
But no! all shun the place; some in vague fear,
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11
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Friendship’s Offering, 1825/The Suicide's Grave
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFriendship%E2%80%99s%5FOffering%2C%5F1825%2FThe%5FSuicide%27s%5FGrave
Our captives some, while others fled,
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179
The Battle of New Orleans
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBattle%5Fof%5FNew%5FOrleans
21 11th May 1822Poetic Sketches: Second Series - Sketch Second. The Contrast
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14
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822
that tear begane this spurn;
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268
The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
He has a regal bearing,
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26
Poems of Experience/The London "Bobby"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FLondon%5F%22Bobby%22
The emus are constantly sprinting
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95
Our New Horse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Our%5FNew%5FHorse
Jes' lak I was ol'.
5
4
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Chrismus Is A-Comin'
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FChrismus%5FIs%5FA%2DComin%27
   Nor ever did ambitious rage
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57
The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 3/Ode Upon Liberty
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAbraham%5FCowley%2FVolume%5F3%2FOde%5FUpon%5FLiberty
   And he needed no holding that day.
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44
Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%27s%5FRiding%5FOld%5FHarlequin%5FNow%3F
To everyone, to see or hear.
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557
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
Her glowing, victorious lips repeatThat they sing for me alone!
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41
The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 1/La Cantatrice
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F1%2FLa%5FCantatrice
She gives us often half, and half's our own.
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36
The Works of Henry Fielding/To John Hayes, Esq.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FTo%5FJohn%5FHayes%2C%5FEsq%2E
Can judge of Love, thou feel'st a lover's case;
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428
Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
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17
Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems/Ode to the West Wind
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FUnbound%3B%5Fa%5Flyrical%5Fdrama%5Fin%5Ffour%5Facts%5Fwith%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FOde%5Fto%5Fthe%5FWest%5FWind
The church is sure not far away?”
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138
The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Spectre's Bride
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FSpectre%27s%5FBride
And it may take him I don’t know how long.
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179
North of Boston/The Self-seeker
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FSelf%2Dseeker
What cared he that over the valley stern Jack,
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6
On the Range
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FRange
But methinks ye tower with a lordlier crest
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7
Poems Sigourney 1834/Radiant Clouds at Sunset
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1834%2FRadiant%5FClouds%5Fat%5FSunset
A hundred lips will peal for thee:
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22
Songs of the Slav/70,000
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSlav%2F70%2C000
To winter, and the current in his veins
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388
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 4
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F4
     He takes everything raw—
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43
The Gipsy Praises his Horse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGipsy%5FPraises%5Fhis%5FHorse
For many million quid,
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17
The Rhyme of the O'Sullivan
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRhyme%5Fof%5Fthe%5FO%27Sullivan
But where it lights, this favoured place
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915
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
   Thy howling waste, thy charnel-house and chain,
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702
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path through
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2
On Eastnor Knoll
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FEastnor%5FKnoll
Then honour be, without a blot, Around his path where’er he roam,
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11
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/The poet's home
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FThe%5Fpoet%27s%5Fhome
And meekly win! there feeding each young mind
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5
Sonnets, Devotional and Memorial. XVII. To the Same
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonnets%2C%5FDevotional%5Fand%5FMemorial%2E%5FXVII%2E%5FTo%5Fthe%5FSame
But popular conscience, which may covenantFor what it knows. Concede without a blush—
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412
Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows
And Carl Morris climbed into the ring and the crowd yelled,
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2
And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd...
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/And%5FDempsey%5Fclimbed%5Finto%5Fthe%5Fring%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fcrowd%2E%2E%2E
And am secretly in love with each.
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13
Stone/Up out of an evil clinging pool
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stone%2FUp%5Fout%5Fof%5Fan%5Fevil%5Fclinging%5Fpool
The feathered what-is-it from Narrabri.
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30
Tar and Feathers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tar%5Fand%5FFeathers
Look down! and if thy spirit yet retain
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225
Translations from Camoens; and Other Poets, with Original Poetry/Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5FCamoens%3B%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoets%2C%5Fwith%5FOriginal%5FPoetry%2FStanzas%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5Fthe%5FPrincess%5FCharlotte
            The farm house by the river.
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40
The Farm House by the River
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFarm%5FHouse%5Fby%5Fthe%5FRiver
     There is pleasure in the wet, wet lay --
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37
Naulahka (headings)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Naulahka%5F%28headings%29
And, from the fulness of an earthly love,
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2,878
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
     Nevah min', Miss Lucy.
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8
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Discovered
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDiscovered
Strong as an host of arméd Deities,
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222
Religious Musings (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Religious%5FMusings%5F%28unsourced%29
In Friendship, without further slaughter,
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1,139
British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
My cries are washed away upon the wind,
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10
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Storm-Racked
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FStorm%2DRacked
Shall be dismantled of its fleecy load,
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178
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
"Well, then, go forward till you've found them. Go, Sir.
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330
Dauber
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
'Where every object thoughts inspire
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34
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To Miss Brinckerhoff, on her quitting New-York
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5FMiss%5FBrinckerhoff%2C%5Fon%5Fher%5Fquitting%5FNew%2DYork
And so bestudd with Stars, that they below
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689
Comus and other poems/Comus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus
     My babe is asleep.
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12
A Christmas Cradlesong
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FChristmas%5FCradlesong
Go to church the world require you,
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15
Duty (Clough)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Duty%5F%28Clough%29
Upon the flowing plains of Marathon.
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44
My First View of a Western Prairie
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FFirst%5FView%5Fof%5Fa%5FWestern%5FPrairie
The solid pavement of the cell
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172
The Curse of Kehama/The Enchantress
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCurse%5Fof%5FKehama%2FThe%5FEnchantress
And talk'd about the fight,
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186
The Battle of New Orleans
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBattle%5Fof%5FNew%5FOrleans
With how sad steps, oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies,
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423
Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
When, wing'd with fear, the stag flies full in view,
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197
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
O Master of impieties!
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28
The Dark Angel
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDark%5FAngel
Breathless, Johnson sat and watched him, saw him struggle up the bank,
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26
Johnson's Antidote
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Johnson%27s%5FAntidote
Past outer footholds of sidereal light,
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45
Song of a Comet
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fa%5FComet
Then he raised up his hands unto the sun,And prayed in agony to Father Jove.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 10/Bacchus and the water-thieves
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F10%2FBacchus%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fwater%2Dthieves
Towers whose battlements the broad-spread wings
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Poems of Italy: selections from the Odes of Giosue Carducci/In the Piazza of San Petronio
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FItaly%3A%5Fselections%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FOdes%5Fof%5FGiosue%5FCarducci%2FIn%5Fthe%5FPiazza%5Fof%5FSan%5FPetronio
And glitters on the broken rocks!
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Grongar Hill (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grongar%5FHill%5F%28unsourced%29
  Shinin' thoo his face,
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35
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/'Long To'ds Night
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2F%27Long%5FTo%27ds%5FNight
Are drowsy and tranquil.
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12
A Sunset (Smith)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSunset%5F%28Smith%29
Fuller than any hope of man,
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Rest (Mason)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rest%5F%28Mason%29
Into the gaunt black sockets
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Finis (Smith)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Finis%5F%28Smith%29
Where 'tis ever summer time,—
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28
The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/Cupid and Swallows Flying from Winter
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FCupid%5Fand%5FSwallows%5FFlying%5Ffrom%5FWinter
Nor be at all dismay'd
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32
Townley's Ghost
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Townley%27s%5FGhost
   Listen and mark what gentle air
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15
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Green are the waves and fringed with white the crest:
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6
Illusion (Howard)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Illusion%5F%28Howard%29
He's my man, and he done me wrong
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6
Frankie and Albert
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Frankie%5Fand%5FAlbert
Wealth and treasures doth despise,
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Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1627/The Praise of Poverty
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F126%2FIssue%5F1627%2FThe%5FPraise%5Fof%5FPoverty
     To the Maker of the makers of all makes!
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The Dying Chauffeur
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDying%5FChauffeur
Weave around our dove,
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A Little Child's Monument/Azrael
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FAzrael
Neglect will chill his best affections, or
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38
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Poetic Sketches - Sketch Third
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FPoetic%5FSketches%5F%2D%5FSketch%5FThird
With knives, all sticking clots, When they had done.
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148
Dauber
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
In sands of yonder ever-wandering waste.
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13
A Little Child's Monument/A Tomb at Palmyra
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FA%5FTomb%5Fat%5FPalmyra
Like greyhounds running with couples on—Together they fly their fences.
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51
Verses Inspired by my "Old Black Pipe"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5FInspired%5Fby%5Fmy%5F%22Old%5FBlack%5FPipe%22
'Till Frenchified [33] from head to foot,
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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
Prepared this wreath of blossoms fair?
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142
St. John's Eve (Kochanowski)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29
The minutes are bleeding, bleeding away.
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4
Translations from the Chinese/Tick Douloureux
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FTick%5FDouloureux
flush'd with our wine and song, has shudder'd at our nights,
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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
The chimney, though, keeps up a good brisk smoking.
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149
North of Boston/A Hundred Collars
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FA%5FHundred%5FCollars
And that came from the field now red
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137
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834/The Zenana
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1834%2FThe%5FZenana
Through the chinks of the cracking wall.
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20
Alice Ayres (Blake)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%5FAyres%5F%28Blake%29
Her tears away, talked of the pleasant years
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28
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Forget Me Not, 1824/Ellen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FForget%5FMe%5FNot%2C%5F1824%2FEllen
With visions of felicity!
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Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne/To Hope
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fby%5FFelicia%5FDorothea%5FBrowne%2FTo%5FHope
Unbreathing Noon, the hour of love's dominion, Falls now, as yesterday, as 'twill to-morrow;
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The Yellow Book/Volume 13/The Noon of Love
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYellow%5FBook%2FVolume%5F13%2FThe%5FNoon%5Fof%5FLove
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
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Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900/Corinna's going a-Maying
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oxford%5FBook%5Fof%5FEnglish%5FVerse%5F1250%2D1900%2FCorinna%27s%5Fgoing%5Fa%2DMaying
This Nation, was the North Rebellion,
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537
British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
You could see de dahkies dancin'
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37
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Old Cabin
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FOld%5FCabin
And sought a solitary shade.
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Story of a Cock and a Bull
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Story%5Fof%5Fa%5FCock%5Fand%5Fa%5FBull
The clock chimed three, and we yet strayed at will
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
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28
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1826)/Songs of Experience/The Schoolboy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FInnocence%5Fand%5Fof%5FExperience%5F%281826%29%2FSongs%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FSchoolboy
"That death is terrible; and help us so
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Balaustion's Adventure/III
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII
    From other nests more dear than thou,
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The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 5/The Nest
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F5%2FThe%5FNest
No more with shameless toilets. In his gloom
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Poems of Charles Baudelaire/Spleen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCharles%5FBaudelaire%2FSpleen
And quail.
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The Mermaid (Westermann)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMermaid%5F%28Westermann%29
Broken by bondage and wrecked by the reiver,
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The Light That Failed (headings)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLight%5FThat%5FFailed%5F%28headings%29
The soul, th' immortal soul, demands your cares:
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Female Piety and Virtue, an Ode
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Female%5FPiety%5Fand%5FVirtue%2C%5Fan%5FOde
And see where it has hung th' embroider'd banks
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 5
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F5
Behold the rocky wall
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The Two Streams
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTwo%5FStreams
The Kirk and State may gae to h—l, And I'll gae to my Anna.
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The Merry Muses of Caledonia/Anna
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMerry%5FMuses%5Fof%5FCaledonia%2FAnna
And handed down frae ſire to ſon,
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Ancient history of three bonnets
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets