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By Love's own self, but with so curious draught,
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527
Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
          I's mos' 'shamed myse'f.
4
28
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Opportunity
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FOpportunity
    For the song is sweet, so sweet.
7
14
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Two Songs
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTwo%5FSongs
The bold winds speechless and the orb below
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30
The Rugged Pyrrhus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRugged%5FPyrrhus
Because of an old man weeping,
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5
A Highland Regiment/In Memoriam
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FHighland%5FRegiment%2FIn%5FMemoriam
“What are you doing round this house at night?”
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77
North of Boston/The Fear
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FFear
Strict purity from loose desires.
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82
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
And the bluish wreath of far Apennine hills
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58
The Soul Of A Century/Donatello, A Legend
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FDonatello%2C%5FA%5FLegend
Phyllis, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day.
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15
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Phyllis
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FPhyllis
And the gulfs are over them,
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7
To the Darkness
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FDarkness
   Stain our immortal birth:
4
3,009
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth immense,
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11
Song XXV
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5FXXV
Myngs riding hard to snatch an innings.
7
358
Reynard The Fox Part II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
'Mid all the glories glowing round its brow.
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14
An Anthology of Australian Verse/Love
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FLove
Of Kenesaw and Atlanta,
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99
Poems of Cheer/After the Battles are over
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAfter%5Fthe%5FBattles%5Fare%5Fover
Always cumbered and distrest.
4
38
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
it is the measure of the difference
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154
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
In buying things perfum'd, we aske; if there
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13
Poems (Donne)/Elegie II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5F%28Donne%29%2FElegie%5FII
And oh! what joy it was to wake—
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16
Love Dreaming of Death
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love%5FDreaming%5Fof%5FDeath
Once dey was a ole black bah,
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22
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Cabin Tale
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FCabin%5FTale
Over the grass and got together,
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279
Reynard The Fox Part II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
I have wasted the light and oil of life's flame—
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36
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1824/Raphael Showing his Mistress her Portrait
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1824%2FRaphael%5FShowing%5Fhis%5FMistress%5Fher%5FPortrait
Are thick and heavy; briers are on its banks,
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43
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
But would no more with him remain,
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316
Wife of Beith
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith
Ser Charls a Murrè in that place,
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229
The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
"Gainst which he rear'd the Crescent high,
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146
The Siege of Corinth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
There's huntsman, there. The fox come past
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636
Reynard The Fox Part II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
    Has saved me in this day.”
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37
Justice (Kipling)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Justice%5F%28Kipling%29
I am afraid; but believe in you; and I trust to the teacher:
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59
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/8
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F8
Nor deem thyself upon a desert shore,
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3,292
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Of war and council, had but time to think
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91
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Amulet, 1833/Agatha
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FThe%5FAmulet%2C%5F1833%2FAgatha
And wilt thou leave me thus,
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11
The Appeal (Wyatt)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAppeal%5F%28Wyatt%29
Trousers, waistcoat, and coat,
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43
Ode to My Clothes
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FMy%5FClothes
I thought of all that John had borne
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15
Which Shall It Be?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Which%5FShall%5FIt%5FBe%3F
Spare not in such a cause. Spend all the pow'rs
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675
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
Lean as he is, I saw him grapple once
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41
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
A že je mrtev, dvakrát, třikrát rcete,
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3
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
Was when her voice grew feeble, and her cheek
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138
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Dramatic Scene
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FDramatic%5FScene
And the fourth string answers sadly
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57
The Soul Of A Century/A Gypsy's violin
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FA%5FGypsy%27s%5Fviolin
Oh, what with these had I to do?
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13
High and Low
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/High%5Fand%5FLow
And take the warm and trembling nymph
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15
The Barrier (Smith)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBarrier%5F%28Smith%29
He bore, this gentle Pennsylvanian sire,
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66
The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming
And the old tones were very mild,
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367
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FSword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed
His wild-wood fancy and impetuous zeal,)
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5
A Tombless Epitaph (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FTombless%5FEpitaph%5F%28unsourced%29
By the chords you would awaken.
6
553
The Siege of Corinth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
France and Spain with their warrior train bowed downbefore her as thrall to king;
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9
Astrophel and Other Poems/England: an Ode
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FEngland%3A%5Fan%5FOde
How at the dance he had broken through shyness; for four days after
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117
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/4
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F4
Where neither bird
3
13
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/On the River
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FOn%5Fthe%5FRiver
   And your barque sped on the shoals.
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8
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Communion
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FCommunion
And yet forſooth ye girn and grumble,
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494
Ancient history of three bonnets
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets
But he had traced it upward to its source,
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25
A Tombless Epitaph (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FTombless%5FEpitaph%5F%28unsourced%29
Moustache clipped toothbrush-wise, and jaws
5
459
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
Little deem'd she such a day
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1,107
The Siege of Corinth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
   No one heard the cry of woe
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29
The Burning Ship at Sea
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBurning%5FShip%5Fat%5FSea
Truth is not local; God alike pervades
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119
Retirement (Cowper)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29
I saw the doubt, the anguish, the dismay,
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597
The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
perfect with suffering for her Lord's embrace.
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91
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
Thus sits the soul and marks with eye intent
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7
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Behind The Arras
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FBehind%5FThe%5FArras
Which at their looks did yield like melting snow:
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364
St. Peter's Complaint
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
Meantime the Goddess I'll no more importune,
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618
Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
How can we trust the hope of life to thee?
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42
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Poetic Sketches - Sketch the Second
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FPoetic%5FSketches%5F%2D%5FSketch%5Fthe%5FSecond
To a rash and sudden spring —
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58
Alice Ayres (Blake)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%5FAyres%5F%28Blake%29
That fire is hot and ocean deep,
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96
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FDisastrous%5FSpread%5Fof%5FAestheticism%5Fin%5Fall%5FClasses
The love and pain hast thou forgotten, dear,
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9
Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1716/Songs from H. Heine's "Buch der Lieder"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1716%2FSongs%5Ffrom%5FH%2E%5FHeine%27s%5F%22Buch%5Fder%5FLieder%22
On the timbers grey and a charred hut frame,
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76
An Anthology of Australian Verse/The Old Whim Horse
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FThe%5FOld%5FWhim%5FHorse
In glided Townley's murder'd ghost,
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3
Townley's Ghost
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Townley%27s%5FGhost
   Words are such idle things;
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14
Poems of Cheer/Friendship
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FFriendship
With God and my own soul. I go to pray:
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90
The Upper Slopes
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FUpper%5FSlopes
To yonder vales I often went
6
31
Verses by Lady Geralda
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5Fby%5FLady%5FGeralda
Fly high, you joyous flag of streaming crimson red,
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25
The Soul Of A Century/My red and white flag
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FMy%5Fred%5Fand%5Fwhite%5Fflag
Some old emotion long had ceased to live;
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2,769
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
And groves, if unharmonious, yet secure
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734
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
Leave every other hope and joy
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52
Call Me Away
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Call%5FMe%5FAway
Forgetting and forgotten and unknown
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7
Maurine And Other Poems/If
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FIf
Nor Flander’s cheer lets not my sight to deem
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95
Of the Courtier's Life
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of%5Fthe%5FCourtier%27s%5FLife
Oh, no—the world was newly crown'd
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7
Ballad (Hood; "It was not in the Winter")
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballad%5F%28Hood%3B%5F%22It%5Fwas%5Fnot%5Fin%5Fthe%5FWinter%22%29
She had dined not long since at a rustic retreat,Near Kennington Oval, or Square,
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33
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/The mistake
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FThe%5Fmistake
With the treble high an' meller,
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35
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Ol' Tunes
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FOl%27%5FTunes
A. C. to A. B. and B. C. to B. A.
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36
A Mathematical Problem
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FMathematical%5FProblem
A spirit form the dead they deem him first:
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571
The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming
For Fools Admire, but Men of Sense Approve;
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343
An Essay on Criticism
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism
And solitary thought,
3
261
A Little Child's Monument/Old Scenes revisited
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FOld%5FScenes%5Frevisited
Tell her I bring the horoscope myself:
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54
The Waste Land (Eliot, 1922)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWaste%5FLand%5F%28Eliot%2C%5F1922%29
And drunk in dressing-rooms.
4
48
The Song Against Grocers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSong%5FAgainst%5FGrocers
Motionless eyes that now appear
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412
May (Mácha)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
Because their feet were overbold.
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12
The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 7/The Skater
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F7%2FThe%5FSkater
We'd quickly make him mend his pace,
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24
The Works of Henry Fielding/A Sailor's Song
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FA%5FSailor%27s%5FSong
When the spring sends forth an awakening voice
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236
Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems/A Spirit's Return
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAffections%2C%5Fwith%5FOther%5FPoems%2FA%5FSpirit%27s%5FReturn
         And the Queensland sheds begun.  
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24
Northward to the Sheds
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Northward%5Fto%5Fthe%5FSheds
To yet sublimer joys —
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19
Marsupial Bill
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marsupial%5FBill
How they glow, and what bon mots they utter!
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7
Poems of Cheer/In the crowd
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FIn%5Fthe%5Fcrowd
Its windows are high, narrow, tall,
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190
The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Spectre's Bride
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FSpectre%27s%5FBride
— But who is that on the other side of you?
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332
The Waste Land (Eliot, 1922)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWaste%5FLand%5F%28Eliot%2C%5F1922%29
     Only Thyself hath afflicted thee!
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Natural Theology (Kipling)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural%5FTheology%5F%28Kipling%29
Then blessed, forsooth, will be my lot,And great indeed Bohemia’s fame.”
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Bohemian legends and other poems/John Huss
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FJohn%5FHuss
    "Take thy banner! and, beneath
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19
Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMoravian%5FNuns%5Fof%5FBethlehem
Between ours and her family;
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379
Ancient history of three bonnets
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets
Their foremost holes carved from a crowded mass
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123
The Creek of the Four Graves
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCreek%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFour%5FGraves
Of earthly fame or eulogy.
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Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1720/Matthias
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1720%2FMatthias
We strum our banjo-strings and call them lyres.
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22
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Prometheus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FPrometheus