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Pensive to foster cares, careless of joys;
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St. Peter's Complaint
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
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On the obscure and fluctuating main,
| 6 | 8 |
Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet LXXX
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2C%5FThe%5FSecond%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLXXX
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On the floor the poor mother groped madly about the dead child for a spark
| 15 | 81 |
The Last Bullet
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLast%5FBullet
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To tower up in completeness, trophy-like,
| 6 | 357 |
Balaustion's Adventure/V
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV
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The waves cleave not to him nor he to the waves;
| 11 | 24 |
Ode to Youth
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FYouth
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Losing every thought but this;
| 5 | 19 |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Happiness
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FHappiness
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The voice that from the glory came
| 7 | 6,142 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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(If the word be not too bold,)
| 7 | 1,439 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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Till men despise the game they started
| 7 | 452 |
The Everlasting Mercy
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy
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For ſic a meikle ſaul as yours,
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Ancient history of three bonnets
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets
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Up! Men and brothers, be noble, be earnest!
| 8 | 21 |
Emancipation (Dunbar)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Emancipation%5F%28Dunbar%29
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How, at lawn-tennis could we play, Young folks, like you.
| 10 | 8 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1689/A Lay of Lawn-Tennis
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1689%2FA%5FLay%5Fof%5FLawn%2DTennis
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Instructed day by day?
| 4 | 5,609 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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Then turned her loose in the timber back of the seven-mile tank.
| 12 | 19 |
In the Stable
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fthe%5FStable
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Devoid of science, wit or grace.
| 6 | 35 |
Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse/The Giving of the Bible to the Esquimaux
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral%5FPieces%2C%5Fin%5FProse%5Fand%5FVerse%2FThe%5FGiving%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBible%5Fto%5Fthe%5FEsquimaux
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The man feels least, as more inur'd than she
| 9 | 387 |
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 4
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F4
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Who hear not for the beating of their hearts.
| 9 | 417 |
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf
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Some fear to meet His dreadful eye, To hear His awful word;
| 12 | 9 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 132/Issue 1699/After Life
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F132%2FIssue%5F1699%2FAfter%5FLife
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'Ere noon shall fade that laughing gleam
| 7 | 7 |
To ------ (Brontë)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5F%2D%2D%2D%2D%2D%2D%5F%28Bront%C3%AB%29
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Said, ‘Helen, little Helen, frail and fair.’
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
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And burning up with shame.
| 5 | 8 |
What a Wretched Woman Said to Me
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What%5Fa%5FWretched%5FWoman%5FSaid%5Fto%5FMe
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Thy tears express Night's native moisture right.
| 7 | 1,832 |
Astrophel and Stella
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
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That which I crave and know is banned.
| 8 | 5 |
Not Understanding
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Not%5FUnderstanding
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He is come down to break their chain;
| 8 | 1,416 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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And grateful peasants hail’d the op’ning year;
| 7 | 162 |
Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme
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His executive power must I despise?
| 6 | 3 |
Rafael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rafael%5FSublime%5FMajestic%5FGraceful%5FWise
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My arm resting upon your arm.
| 6 | 52 |
Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5FEgyptian%5FLove%5FPoems
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Stretching west twice the length of the trees, when a horror of something that crept,
| 15 | 72 |
The Last Bullet
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLast%5FBullet
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For in the panting period of his reign,
| 8 | 7 |
Kindness (Dunbar)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kindness%5F%28Dunbar%29
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Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,
| 9 | 4,135 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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. . . . .
| 5 | 601 |
Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall
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Silver, in the crude and fashioned, pots of old Arica Bronze,
| 11 | 23 |
Spanish Waters
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Spanish%5FWaters
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And the foremost, if fearful, may vainly try
| 8 | 981 |
The Siege of Corinth
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
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While others, more sensitive, hasten
| 5 | 43 |
In re a Gentleman, One
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fre%5Fa%5FGentleman%2C%5FOne
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Dance with new fury in demoniac rout.
| 7 | 234 |
Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme
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Closing o’er conscious eyes opaquest shutters,
| 6 | 36 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/Fairy children
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F5%2FFairy%5Fchildren
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Cannot be compared to movie reels in tins Flashing fairy filmplays, ’Frisco to New York!
| 15 | 2 |
Argosy All-Story Weekly/Volume 186/Issue 5/Cinemagic
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Argosy%5FAll%2DStory%5FWeekly%2FVolume%5F186%2FIssue%5F5%2FCinemagic
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Though stricken with sore sorrow, hid the stroke,
| 8 | 158 |
Balaustion's Adventure/IV
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIV
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drugon and dydondrihtnes willan,
| 4 | 170 |
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
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Either man's work or his own gifts, who best
| 9 | 10 |
Poems &c. Upon Several Occasions/When I consider how my light is spent
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5F%26c%2E%5FUpon%5FSeveral%5FOccasions%2FWhen%5FI%5Fconsider%5Fhow%5Fmy%5Flight%5Fis%5Fspent
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* * *
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Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Great%5FMen%5F%26%5FFools%5Fdo%5Foften%5Fme%5FInspire
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And if my fate should show the sign,
| 8 | 77 |
The Never-Never Country
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNever%2DNever%5FCountry
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Thus hence we something more may take
| 7 | 43 |
At His Grave
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At%5FHis%5FGrave
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No bugle-call can arouse them -
| 6 | 103 |
Poems of Cheer/After the Battles are over
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAfter%5Fthe%5FBattles%5Fare%5Fover
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They pity us, the Gods, but naught forgive,
| 8 | 6 |
The Gods Remember
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGods%5FRemember
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White billowing sails that fill and flee
| 7 | 7 |
One Blood Strain
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/One%5FBlood%5FStrain
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And with the years, my longing only grew
| 8 | 42 |
The Soul Of A Century/King Abgar
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FKing%5FAbgar
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Thy wasted form, thy hurried steps I view,
| 8 | 75 |
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281834%29
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Doomed angels must, when pearly gates above
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
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She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is,
| 8 | 49 |
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 3
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F3
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oh, how the wind does blow!
| 6 | 10 |
Over the River and Through the Wood
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Over%5Fthe%5FRiver%5Fand%5FThrough%5Fthe%5FWood
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But these are not his glory. Man, 'tis true,
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 5
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F5
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on ferhðcofanfæste genearwod
| 3 | 3,124 |
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
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You heard my chant, but did not comprehend
| 8 | 121 |
Poems of Experience/The New Hawaiian Girl
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FNew%5FHawaiian%5FGirl
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The politicians' greatest essentials.
| 4 | 14 |
Political Alphabet
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Political%5FAlphabet
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'A speck?' 'Ay, ay; 'tis not enough to pain me;
| 10 | 44 |
Fables (La Fontaine, tr. Wright)/The Wolf and the Dog
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fables%5F%28La%5FFontaine%2C%5Ftr%2E%5FWright%29%2FThe%5FWolf%5Fand%5Fthe%5FDog
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(Ah, could I weep—my deep-drawn tearsAre still and sunk mine eye,)
| 11 | 6 |
To My Infant Daughter "Ada"
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FMy%5FInfant%5FDaughter%5F%22Ada%22
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When young and old in circle
| 6 | 647 |
Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius
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And kept it close beside him until night.
| 8 | 80 |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/A Tale of Starvation
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FA%5FTale%5Fof%5FStarvation
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I am always finding - You.
| 6 | 24 |
Poems of Cheer/Artist's life
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FArtist%27s%5Flife
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I'm in love with you, Irish Colleen,
| 7 | 11 |
My Irish Colleen
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FIrish%5FColleen
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And when they work me random wrong, as oftentimes hath been,
| 11 | 20 |
A Pilgrim's Way
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FPilgrim%27s%5FWay
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Lo, thou art as an hundred men
| 7 | 253 |
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Masque of Queen Bersabe
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FMasque%5Fof%5FQueen%5FBersabe
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I ask then, do I justly hate or no
| 9 | 737 |
Balaustion's Adventure/III
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII
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When stars shall fall, and skies grow dark,
| 8 | 52 |
Farewell of the Soul to the Body
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Farewell%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSoul%5Fto%5Fthe%5FBody
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24 years a serf,
| 4 | 1 |
The Kobzar of the Ukraine
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FKobzar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FUkraine
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Dreams of a world, whose influence still
| 7 | 94 |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840/The Portrait of Lord Byron, at Newstead Abbey
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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%5F1840%2FThe%5FPortrait%5Fof%5FLord%5FByron%2C%5Fat%5FNewstead%5FAbbey
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To bid the skies that day could bid not shine,
| 10 | 32 |
Astrophel and Other Poems/Via Dolorosa
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FVia%5FDolorosa
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And kept apart for ever?'
| 5 | 72 |
Alexander and Zenobia
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alexander%5Fand%5FZenobia
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And it's there you'll see the pipers
| 7 | 25 |
The Galway Races
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGalway%5FRaces
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"We rigged up a tackle, a purchase, a sort of a shift,
| 12 | 17 |
Sing a Song o' Shipwreck
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sing%5Fa%5FSong%5Fo%27%5FShipwreck
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" Yoi do it, then! This is where he's been,"
| 10 | 999 |
Reynard The Fox Part II
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
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But it might get broken out of doors,
| 8 | 95 |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/A Tale of Starvation
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FA%5FTale%5Fof%5FStarvation
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And Israel see the proud Egyptians pale And “dead on the sea-shore.”
| 12 | 20 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/God help our men at sea
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FGod%5Fhelp%5Four%5Fmen%5Fat%5Fsea
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Pretend that Christ, (who came, we all agree,
| 8 | 29 |
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
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And 'scape forth since liberty is lever.
| 7 | 8 |
Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Farewell%5FLove%5Fand%5FAll%5FThy%5FLaws%5FForever
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We wish you a hearty welcome,
| 6 | 149 |
Poems of Cheer/After the Battles are over
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAfter%5Fthe%5FBattles%5Fare%5Fover
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And hew'd them link from link: then Albion's sons
| 9 | 516 |
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 5
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F5
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Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy,The heart-love of a child!
| 12 | 6 |
Rhyme? and Reason?
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rhyme%3F%5Fand%5FReason%3F
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A green turf lies before the door,
| 7 | 17 |
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Friendship’s Offering, 1825/Home
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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%2FHome
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And wish that I had been a Whore
| 8 | 9 |
An old maid early eer I knew
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5Fold%5Fmaid%5Fearly%5Feer%5FI%5Fknew
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To the lips of the lake in the sea-girt place.
| 10 | 12 |
Manly Lagoon
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manly%5FLagoon
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As on the bosom of th' aerial lawn
| 8 | 4,161 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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Can I think of in time, to prevent half a moment of needless delay?
| 14 | 68 |
How He Died
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FHe%5FDied
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And good to goodness add:
| 5 | 348 |
A Song to David
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid
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I see To-morrow's papers already on sale
| 7 | 2 |
Translations from the Chinese/Anticrastination
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FAnticrastination
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Then come to me, my silver veil, and sieve,
| 9 | 38 |
Shadow of Dreams
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shadow%5Fof%5FDreams
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to þe seceð?Me sægde ær
| 5 | 3,177 |
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
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Around the awful arches sweep,
| 5 | 2,723 |
The Christian Year
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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But they can hold their own at it;
| 8 | 10 |
The Wargeilah Handicap
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWargeilah%5FHandicap
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The softer virtues in his bosom shone;
| 7 | 21 |
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/Elegy on the death of Gen. Montgomery
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FElegy%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fdeath%5Fof%5FGen%2E%5FMontgomery
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When the life of the land was threatened by the slaver's cruel greed,
| 13 | 2 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Unsung Heroes
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FUnsung%5FHeroes
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His steed tossed head with fiery scorn,
| 7 | 30 |
A Vision of Youth
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FVision%5Fof%5FYouth
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"Ride, ride, lad, — ride for her sake!" he cried; —
| 11 | 41 |
Bannerman of Dandenong
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bannerman%5Fof%5FDandenong
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Stab or shoot, or be shot, by way of graceful attention.
| 11 | 72 |
The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto II
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FII
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Then God, in all His splendor,
| 6 | 16 |
The Black Riders & Other Lines/In heaven
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlack%5FRiders%5F%26%5FOther%5FLines%2FIn%5Fheaven
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I could see her father, he was six feet tall.
| 10 | 15 |
The Galway Shawl
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGalway%5FShawl
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Such as Venezia's wanderer,[3]Beloved of Kubla Khan.
| 7 | 29 |
Elfland
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elfland
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Her who still weeps with spongy eyes,
| 7 | 6 |
The Indifferent
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FIndifferent
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She fed them, and led them away, through tempest and tropical heat,
| 12 | 24 |
Caroline Chisholm (Kendall)
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Caroline%5FChisholm%5F%28Kendall%29
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