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Now that we talk of dying— | 6 | 126 | 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 | 5 | 106 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius |
Olliua, Olliuani), | 2 | 1,857 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
I smile, of course, | 4 | 52 | 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 | 7 | 1,750 | 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; | 13 | 189 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Virginia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FVirginia |
Sends forth some herald from its dread repose: | 8 | 30 | 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, | 13 | 240 | Wife of Beith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith |
Yes--Memory, wherefore does thy voice | 5 | 9 | Thorp Green | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thorp%5FGreen |
His charger, pawing the ground, neighed by the open pavilion, | 10 | 16 | 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 -- | 10 | 74 | The Scottish Engineer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FScottish%5FEngineer |
And dream that somewhat we are freed, in vain; | 9 | 17 | 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, | 9 | 15 | 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. | 7 | 633 | 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 | 7 | 24 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
O maids, I've done with 'ee all but one, | 9 | 7 | Brookland Road | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Brookland%5FRoad |
"I am an aged wanderer once father of a race | 10 | 102 | Tiriel | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tiriel |
But, tho' the lagging moments pass, | 6 | 9 | 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. | 5 | 49 | 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. | 6 | 16 | Poems of Experience/The Tower-room | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FTower%2Droom |
Every effort consecrate. | 3 | 8 | Toast to Dayton | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toast%5Fto%5FDayton |
He had them both before. ‘Now how do ye do?’ | 10 | 12 | To Venetian Artists | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FVenetian%5FArtists |
Ne'er will I surrender!" | 4 | 11 | The Heathrose | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHeathrose |
"Nor venerates another so, | 4 | 4 | Nought loves another as itself | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nought%5Floves%5Fanother%5Fas%5Fitself |
And such slow smile, Alkestis' silent self! | 7 | 109 | 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 | 13 | 120 | 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, | 7 | 57 | 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;-- | 13 | 11 | 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: | 5 | 4 | 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; | 9 | 19 | 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 | 13 | 12 | 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. | 8 | 4 | Poems of Passion/Attraction | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FAttraction |
That to win me, oft shows a present pay? | 9 | 1,668 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Victor, a speck of sunshine, now does flit, | 8 | 58 | Meditations on a Pawn Ticket | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditations%5Fon%5Fa%5FPawn%5FTicket |
Self-fed, and self-consum'd; if this fail, | 6 | 555 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
But ſcarcely he in moſs was rotten, | 7 | 54 | Ancient history of three bonnets | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets |
And murmuring music charm'd the tossing tide. | 7 | 4 | 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, | 7 | 2 | The Recall (Kipling) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRecall%5F%28Kipling%29 |
"That Vaughan's a cad, the whippersnapper." | 6 | 1,193 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
And sadness in the sight of flowers; | 7 | 7 | 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 | 9 | 13 | 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. | 12 | 10 | 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. | 6 | 40 | 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 | 10 | 89 | 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. | 6 | 21 | 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 | 10 | 1 | The Dark Companion | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDark%5FCompanion |
That put the neat D on the "and"? | 8 | 12 | Our Mat | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Our%5FMat |
His pleasant work, may he suppose it done. | 8 | 656 | 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, | 7 | 272 | The Destiny of Nations (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDestiny%5Fof%5FNations%5F%28unsourced%29 |
And meets me with ten thousand smiles! | 7 | 22 | Blockhead and Beehive | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blockhead%5Fand%5FBeehive |
And all the souls that her burden madeCried out in desperate fear. | 12 | 185 | 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, | 10 | 11 | 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! | 7 | 94 | 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, | 7 | 22 | 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 |