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Now that we talk of dying—
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Prufrock and Other Observations/Portrait of a Lady
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPortrait%5Fof%5Fa%5FLady
     And with a mighty following
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Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius
Olliua, Olliuani),
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Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
I smile, of course,
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Prufrock and Other Observations/Portrait of a Lady
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPortrait%5Fof%5Fa%5FLady
  Let me not only the distempers know
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Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
   Some felt her lips and little wrist, if life might there be found;
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Lays of Ancient Rome/Virginia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FVirginia
Sends forth some herald from its dread repose:
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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
So I'll get in, in ſpite of thee.Up ſtarted Samſon at the laſt,
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Wife of Beith
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith
Yes--Memory, wherefore does thy voice
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Thorp Green
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thorp%5FGreen
His charger, pawing the ground, neighed by the open pavilion,
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The Legend of the Prince's Plume
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLegend%5Fof%5Fthe%5FPrince%27s%5FPlume
There on the door of his engine -- dead --
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The Scottish Engineer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FScottish%5FEngineer
And dream that somewhat we are freed, in vain;
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Landon in The New Monthly 1837/Necessity
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1837%2FNecessity
It pleased the longest, but at last the story,
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Maurine And Other Poems/The Voluptuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FVoluptuary
Cov'ring his shame from his offended sight.
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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
Now even that footstep of lost liberty
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Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
    O maids, I've done with 'ee all but one,
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Brookland Road
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Brookland%5FRoad
"I am an aged wanderer once father of a race
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Tiriel
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tiriel
But, tho' the lagging moments pass,
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Dream Song II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDream%5FSong%5FII
    A welcome home at last.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Crossing the Choor Mountains
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%2FCrossing%5Fthe%5FChoor%5FMountains
By victory of the God-like will.
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Poems of Experience/The Tower-room
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FTower%2Droom
          Every effort consecrate.
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Toast to Dayton
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toast%5Fto%5FDayton
He had them both before. ‘Now how do ye do?’
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To Venetian Artists
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FVenetian%5FArtists
Ne'er will I surrender!"
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The Heathrose
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHeathrose
"Nor venerates another so,
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Nought loves another as itself
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nought%5Floves%5Fanother%5Fas%5Fitself
And such slow smile, Alkestis' silent self!
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Balaustion's Adventure/V
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV
Petticoats up to the knees, or, it might be, a little bit higher
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The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/2
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F2
The white-haired wretches! only thou it was,
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Balaustion's Adventure/III
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII
  And I dream, ere thou departest, thou dost press thy lips to mine;--
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The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 5/The Psyche
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F5%2FThe%5FPsyche
     A Nondescript vessel was seen:
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The Battle of Hampton Roads
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBattle%5Fof%5FHampton%5FRoads
 'Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy feet;
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The Poetical Works of William Collins/On the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCollins%2FOn%5Fthe%5FPopular%5FSuperstitions%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHighlands%5Fof%5FScotland
Yes, she is fair and gentle, and her voice is low and tender
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/The sprig of lavender
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F1%2FThe%5Fsprig%5Fof%5Flavender
And all the mountain's fissures ran with fire.
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Poems of Passion/Attraction
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FAttraction
That to win me, oft shows a present pay?
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Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
Victor, a speck of sunshine, now does flit,
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Meditations on a Pawn Ticket
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditations%5Fon%5Fa%5FPawn%5FTicket
Self-fed, and self-consum'd; if this fail,
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Comus and other poems/Comus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus
But ſcarcely he in moſs was rotten,
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Ancient history of three bonnets
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets
And murmuring music charm'd the tossing tide.
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Poems Sigourney 1827/Ancient Tradition from the Island of Lesbos
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FAncient%5FTradition%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FIsland%5Fof%5FLesbos
I am the land of their fathers,
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The Recall (Kipling)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRecall%5F%28Kipling%29
"That Vaughan's a cad, the whippersnapper."
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Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
    And sadness in the sight of flowers;
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The Poets and Poetry of America/To Ermengarde
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoets%5Fand%5FPoetry%5Fof%5FAmerica%2FTo%5FErmengarde
The fair blue sky, was glowing as the hopes
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Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Poetic Sketches - Sketch Fifth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FPoetic%5FSketches%5F%2D%5FSketch%5FFifth
Until I spied the room of Dreams, just higher by a stair.
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Poems of Cheer/The House of Life
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FThe%5FHouse%5Fof%5FLife
That loved and cared for me.
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The Bluebell (Anne Brontë)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBluebell%5F%28Anne%5FBront%C3%AB%29
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
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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
And hope and holiness from woe.
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Last Lines (Anne Brontë)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Last%5FLines%5F%28Anne%5FBront%C3%AB%29
There is an orb that mocked the lore of sages
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The Dark Companion
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDark%5FCompanion
That put the neat D on the "and"?
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Our Mat
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Our%5FMat
His pleasant work, may he suppose it done.
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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
Thus as she toiled in troublous ecstasy,
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The Destiny of Nations (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDestiny%5Fof%5FNations%5F%28unsourced%29
And meets me with ten thousand smiles!
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Blockhead and Beehive
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blockhead%5Fand%5FBeehive
And all the souls that her burden madeCried out in desperate fear.
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The Story and Song of Black Roderick
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStory%5Fand%5FSong%5Fof%5FBlack%5FRoderick
Other times, stung by the œstrum of some swift-working conception,
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The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/3
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F3
They smelled a dead one passing near!
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The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Spectre's Bride
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FSpectre%27s%5FBride
   As, with a backward wave to her,
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An Anthology of Australian Verse/The Sliprails and the Spur
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FThe%5FSliprails%5Fand%5Fthe%5FSpur