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By Love's own self, but with so curious draught, | 9 | 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 | 8 | 30 | The Rugged Pyrrhus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRugged%5FPyrrhus |
Because of an old man weeping, | 6 | 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?” | 9 | 77 | North of Boston/The Fear | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FFear |
Strict purity from loose desires. | 5 | 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 | 8 | 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. | 9 | 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, | 6 | 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, | 9 | 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. | 8 | 14 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/Love | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FLove |
Of Kenesaw and Atlanta, | 4 | 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 | 7 | 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 | 8 | 13 | Poems (Donne)/Elegie II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5F%28Donne%29%2FElegie%5FII |
And oh! what joy it was to wake— | 8 | 16 | Love Dreaming of Death | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love%5FDreaming%5Fof%5FDeath |
Once dey was a ole black bah, | 7 | 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, | 6 | 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— | 10 | 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, | 9 | 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, | 7 | 316 | Wife of Beith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith |
Ser Charls a Murrè in that place, | 7 | 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, | 7 | 146 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
There's huntsman, there. The fox come past | 7 | 636 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
Has saved me in this day.” | 6 | 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: | 13 | 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, | 7 | 3,292 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Of war and council, had but time to think | 9 | 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, | 6 | 11 | The Appeal (Wyatt) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAppeal%5F%28Wyatt%29 |
Trousers, waistcoat, and coat, | 4 | 43 | Ode to My Clothes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FMy%5FClothes |
I thought of all that John had borne | 8 | 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 | 10 | 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 | 9 | 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, | 7 | 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 | 9 | 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 | 6 | 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? | 8 | 13 | High and Low | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/High%5Fand%5FLow |
And take the warm and trembling nymph | 7 | 15 | The Barrier (Smith) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBarrier%5F%28Smith%29 |
He bore, this gentle Pennsylvanian sire, | 6 | 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, | 7 | 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,) | 6 | 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; | 14 | 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 | 13 | 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. | 7 | 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, | 7 | 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, | 9 | 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 | 6 | 1,107 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
No one heard the cry of woe | 7 | 29 | The Burning Ship at Sea | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBurning%5FShip%5Fat%5FSea |
Truth is not local; God alike pervades | 7 | 119 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
I saw the doubt, the anguish, the dismay, | 8 | 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. | 7 | 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 | 9 | 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: | 9 | 364 | St. Peter's Complaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint |
Meantime the Goddess I'll no more importune, | 7 | 618 | Beppo (Lord Byron) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29 |
How can we trust the hope of life to thee? | 10 | 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 — | 7 | 58 | Alice Ayres (Blake) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%5FAyres%5F%28Blake%29 |
That fire is hot and ocean deep, | 7 | 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, | 8 | 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, | 9 | 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, | 5 | 3 | Townley's Ghost | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Townley%27s%5FGhost |
Words are such idle things; | 5 | 14 | Poems of Cheer/Friendship | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FFriendship |
With God and my own soul. I go to pray: | 10 | 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, | 9 | 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; | 8 | 2,769 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
And groves, if unharmonious, yet secure | 6 | 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 | 6 | 52 | Call Me Away | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Call%5FMe%5FAway |
Forgetting and forgotten and unknown | 5 | 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 | 9 | 95 | Of the Courtier's Life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of%5Fthe%5FCourtier%27s%5FLife |
Oh, no—the world was newly crown'd | 6 | 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, | 14 | 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, | 6 | 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. | 11 | 36 | A Mathematical Problem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FMathematical%5FProblem |
A spirit form the dead they deem him first: | 9 | 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; | 8 | 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: | 7 | 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 | 5 | 412 | May (Mácha) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29 |
Because their feet were overbold. | 5 | 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, | 7 | 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 | 8 | 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. | 5 | 24 | Northward to the Sheds | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Northward%5Fto%5Fthe%5FSheds |
To yet sublimer joys — | 5 | 19 | Marsupial Bill | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marsupial%5FBill |
How they glow, and what bon mots they utter! | 9 | 7 | Poems of Cheer/In the crowd | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FIn%5Fthe%5Fcrowd |
Its windows are high, narrow, tall, | 6 | 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? | 11 | 332 | The Waste Land (Eliot, 1922) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWaste%5FLand%5F%28Eliot%2C%5F1922%29 |
Only Thyself hath afflicted thee! | 5 | 59 | 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.” | 11 | 9 | Bohemian legends and other poems/John Huss | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FJohn%5FHuss |
"Take thy banner! and, beneath | 5 | 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; | 5 | 379 | Ancient history of three bonnets | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets |
Their foremost holes carved from a crowded mass | 8 | 123 | The Creek of the Four Graves | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCreek%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFour%5FGraves |
Of earthly fame or eulogy. | 5 | 21 | 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. | 8 | 22 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Prometheus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FPrometheus |