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With the front of my steel,
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82
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/The Foreigner
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FThe%5FForeigner
 With the mind or in the soil.
7
18
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Just Whistle A Bit
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FJust%5FWhistle%5FA%5FBit
By belching out ‘ye are that head of Gold’.
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14
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar%27s%5FDream
Faithfully was given both to Augustus
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28
The Soul Of A Century/T. Pomponius Atticus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FT%2E%5FPomponius%5FAtticus
And happily I followed on.
5
24
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Weltschmertz
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FWeltschmertz
A spitting crack, a tuneful whimper
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899
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
Thy transgressions great & small
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30
My Spectre around me night & day
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FSpectre%5Faround%5Fme%5Fnight%5F%26%5Fday
Oh, weary, weary are our feet,
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1
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/The Orphan Ballad Singers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1835%2FThe%5FOrphan%5FBallad%5FSingers
And we puts 'em with the Empty Bottle-O!
8
8
The "Bottle-oh" Man
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5F%22Bottle%2Doh%22%5FMan
I wonder if the Kellys keepThe Carriers' Camp Hotel,
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10
The Bush Beyond the Range
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBush%5FBeyond%5Fthe%5FRange
   Ever the wide world over.
5
4
The Gipsy Trail
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGipsy%5FTrail
Abandoned worlds forever morningless;
4
27
Lament of the Stars
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lament%5Fof%5Fthe%5FStars
      With stinted stomachs and blistered feet, they carry their swags Out Back.
12
8
Out Back
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Out%5FBack
Then starting from the ground once more, he seized the monarch's rein,
12
38
Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 14 1825/Bernardo del Carpio
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Felicia%5FHemans%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5FMagazine%5FVolume%5F14%5F1825%2FBernardo%5Fdel%5FCarpio
Here, with emasculate pupils and gimcrack churches of Gesu,
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118
The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FI
But we kept him in pretty good temper till two,
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5
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/The private view
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FThe%5Fprivate%5Fview
The stock-dove's coo, in grief repining,
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9
Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2/The Mossy Seat
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F1%2FIssue%5F2%2FThe%5FMossy%5FSeat
His grave eyes steadily discerned
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344
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
Against your breast—you never knew!
5
2
Red Roses (Barbour)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red%5FRoses%5F%28Barbour%29
At random, without honour, hope, or peace.
7
898
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
As regards ladies, our language has for that Fine Art
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7
Translations from the Chinese/Irritation of the Old Mandarin
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FIrritation%5Fof%5Fthe%5FOld%5FMandarin
      O’er-rule our modern ways,
4
71
Ode to the Johns Hopkins University
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5Fthe%5FJohns%5FHopkins%5FUniversity
The storm and the battle shall find me true,
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19
Song of the Sailor Boy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSailor%5FBoy
Three years hence, when I carried Thee yon in
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39
Poet Lore/Volume 28/Number 4/On Golgotha
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poet%5FLore%2FVolume%5F28%2FNumber%5F4%2FOn%5FGolgotha
And to move seemed a hopeless thing to try
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41
The Story of Mongrel Grey
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStory%5Fof%5FMongrel%5FGrey
When Rooshans come; shall follow Polar bears
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73
To Bourke's Statue
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue
till they arrived before (the gate of) Paradise.
8
5
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FFall%5Fand%5FExpulsion%5Ffrom%5FParadise
Once he had passed the hill, you'll search for him in vain,
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817
May (Mácha)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
‘Nowe Cristes cors on his crowne,’ sayd the lorde Persè,
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81
The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
Showering down pearl and amber; myrtle plants;
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68
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Friendship’s Offering, 1826/The Emigrants
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%5F1826%2FThe%5FEmigrants
When summer suns these northern seas illume,
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9
Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet LI
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLI
A little longer. I mustn’t feel too hurried,
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152
North of Boston/The Generations of Men
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FGenerations%5Fof%5FMen
Advance to the rim of your grave,
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69
Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse/To Theodor Mommsen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anthology%5Fof%5FModern%5FSlavonic%5FLiterature%5Fin%5FProse%5Fand%5FVerse%2FTo%5FTheodor%5FMommsen
Is Tiriel cruel look. his daughter & his youngest daughter
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279
Tiriel
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tiriel
Full-armed the Fear was born and grew,
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69
Plain Tales from the Hills (headings)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plain%5FTales%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FHills%5F%28headings%29
  An' I passed a 'simmon tree.
6
21
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Expectation
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FExpectation
Ah! little we cared for classic lore,
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9
Verses Inspired by my "Old Black Pipe"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5FInspired%5Fby%5Fmy%5F%22Old%5FBlack%5FPipe%22
"Pass on, but calm thy needless fears,
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13
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Fount Of Tears
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FFount%5FOf%5FTears
Why did my heart with sudden sharpness beat?
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52
Lyrics (Phillips)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrics%5F%28Phillips%29
How cloth'd, how waited on; sigh'd she or smil'd;
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1,730
Astrophel and Stella
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
His face as fixed as a face in a frame.
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8
The Death of Huss
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDeath%5Fof%5FHuss
Or take my life by sudden end!
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49
The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Spectre's Bride
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FSpectre%27s%5FBride
   I marked a rainbow in the north,
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587
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
By careful hands, of every hateful thorn,
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184
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
And wonders on demand to find it health.
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642
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
The long train ceases not to rise Through time's unceasing tide,
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2
Littell's Living Age/Volume 130/Issue 1679/Saints
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F130%2FIssue%5F1679%2FSaints
When sweethearts wander far away from me.
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40
Ite Domum Saturæ, venit Hesperus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ite%5FDomum%5FSatur%C3%A6%2C%5Fvenit%5FHesperus
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.[1]
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8
The Poetical Works of John Keats/Keats's Last Sonnet
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FKeats%27s%5FLast%5FSonnet
From heaven God ruled
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1
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FFall%5Fand%5FExpulsion%5Ffrom%5FParadise
To hold thy perfumed garments, lest my hand
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53
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/Iphis and Anaxarete
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F4%2FIphis%5Fand%5FAnaxarete
Are left to cumber earth. Shuddering I look
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165
Hymn To Death
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5FTo%5FDeath
Revers'd their stylus, for the benefit
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9
The Liberated Prisoner
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLiberated%5FPrisoner
I saw the old Roman ruins white with pinks
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136
Biography (Masefield)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Biography%5F%28Masefield%29
She sinks by that lone wave.Lost Pleiad. p.81
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5
The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FVenetian%5FBracelet%2C%5FThe%5FLost%5FPleiad%2C%5FA%5FHistory%5Fof%5Fthe%5FLyre%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems
Throws its deep-lengthened shade o'er distant years to come.
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21
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
Might so soon be reversed; in her quest and obscure exploring
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31
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/8
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F8
From the derelict barque of a sun gone dark,
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25
Poems of Experience/The Trip to Mars
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FTrip%5Fto%5FMars
Hot will be the noontide hours,
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19
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833/Langdale Pikes
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1833%2FLangdale%5FPikes
The mass of skeins, which, hanging on the wall,
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31
To a Shred of Linen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FShred%5Fof%5FLinen
The local sportsmen can be found.
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6
The Wargeilah Handicap
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWargeilah%5FHandicap
Where my attendants, to their sorrow,
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9
The Works of Henry Fielding/To The Same (Fielding)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FTo%5FThe%5FSame%5F%28Fielding%29
Bared just for that!
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6
The Halo (Gannett)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHalo%5F%28Gannett%29
The noon of thy soft ecstasy,
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55
Saint Valentine's Day
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saint%5FValentine%27s%5FDay
Celestial promise of joy to come,
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34
The Old Man's Angelus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FMan%27s%5FAngelus
Stops on the highest loud to play -
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24
Rosalie (Washington Allston)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rosalie%5F%28Washington%5FAllston%29
      Would in my place have blent accord as true,
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27
Camille
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Camille
Roams in a joyous ecstasy.
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18
In a Library (Randall)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fa%5FLibrary%5F%28Randall%29
From all the world, wherever you might be.
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108
Poems of Experience/The New Hawaiian Girl
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FNew%5FHawaiian%5FGirl
When like grim prison-bars stretch down the thin,Straight, rigid pillars of the endless rain,
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5
Poems and Baudelaire Flowers/Spleen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBaudelaire%5FFlowers%2FSpleen
You say their Pictures well Painted be
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9
You say their Pictures well Painted be
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/You%5Fsay%5Ftheir%5FPictures%5Fwell%5FPainted%5Fbe
Can I, superior to the rustic train,
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15
The Rutted Road
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRutted%5FRoad
Good legs and loins and necks and shoulders, ay,
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118
The Old Huntsman and Other Poems/The Old Huntsman
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FHuntsman%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FOld%5FHuntsman
We find it a safe and royal drink,
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Poems of Cheer/Comrades
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FComrades
    And alleys, faded places,
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86
Amphion (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Amphion%5F%28unsourced%29
Did once more erring fortune smile:
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19
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To the same (1)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5Fthe%5Fsame%5F%281%29
Make the name by the parson and godfather giv'n,
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3
The Works of Henry Fielding/Her Christian Name. To The Same.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FHer%5FChristian%5FName%2E%5FTo%5FThe%5FSame%2E
All laughed: and then, as Guy appealed to me,
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1,582
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
She goes alone to lectures and awakens no conjectures—It's different when Maysie comes to town.
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The Martyr of the Suburbs
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMartyr%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSuburbs
Might as well change their triple boast, the white,
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34
On the Goodness of the Supreme Being
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FGoodness%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSupreme%5FBeing
She stood upon the turf, while round her flew
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18
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
While all their burden of decay
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13
The Living Temple
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLiving%5FTemple
For if ever fellow took delight in
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32
Four excellent songs (10)/Jack's the Lad
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Four%5Fexcellent%5Fsongs%5F%2810%29%2FJack%27s%5Fthe%5FLad
Send dangers—deaths! but tell me how to dare them;
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25
Maurine And Other Poems/The Christian’s New Year Prayer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FChristian%E2%80%99s%5FNew%5FYear%5FPrayer
When Amoret looked up the song had ceased;
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85
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/Nutting
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FNutting
Foretel the hour of nature's awful throes;
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28
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
A cunning dearly bought with loss of grace:
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670
St. Peter's Complaint
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth!
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A Consecration
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FConsecration
(So shut your damned mouth or I'll break your damned nose.)
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16
There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea...
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/There%E2%80%99s%5Fan%5Fisle%5Ffar%5Faway%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fbreast%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fsea%2E%2E%2E
Yourselves more graced by it, than it by you can be.
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7
Tixall Poetry
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tixall%5FPoetry
Ripe is the time and success is assured;
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22
Emancipation (Dunbar)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Emancipation%5F%28Dunbar%29
    The ravenous Owl foregoes his evening flight,
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Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet LXVII
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2C%5FThe%5FSecond%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLXVII
Flock round a cottage at the leader’s word:
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Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme
“I don’t advise your trying from this side.
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40
North of Boston/The Mountain
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FMountain
Saluting aloofly his Fate, he made haste with his story,
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The Captive (Kipling)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCaptive%5F%28Kipling%29
Succeeding years revolving fast ;
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Hagar and Ishmael (J. M. L.)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hagar%5Fand%5FIshmael%5F%28J%2E%5FM%2E%5FL%2E%29
Fierce plied our halberds at the spears, that thicker seemed to grow:
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36
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/The death of Winkelreid
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FThe%5Fdeath%5Fof%5FWinkelreid
    Of guilt upon his mind,
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18
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/Carrick-a-Rede, Ireland
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1832%2FCarrick%2Da%2DRede%2C%5FIreland
with everlasting life, in everlasting triumph
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243
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Heavenly Kingdom
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FHeavenly%5FKingdom
Forever hungering, flocked around;
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/The Devil's Walk
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FPercy%5FBysshe%5FShelley%5F%28ed%2E%5FHutchinson%2C%5F1914%29%2FThe%5FDevil%27s%5FWalk
  Either in maidens or men.
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Dance
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FDance