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Of her high heart giv'n me the monarchy: | 8 | 1,000 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
For thou art deadly ſick in ſin. | 7 | 522 | Wife of Beith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith |
Its own perfume; | 3 | 12 | The Secret (Smith) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSecret%5F%28Smith%29 |
Still her heart blooms forth its beauty | 7 | 27 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lily of the Valley | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLily%5Fof%5Fthe%5FValley |
Uninjur'd, but expect th' upholding aid | 6 | 658 | 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 |
Well may I guess and feel | 6 | 2,159 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Grey birds scream landward through the distance hoar, | 8 | 2 | Sea-Grief | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sea%2DGrief |
The lawny vale, of every beauteous stone, | 7 | 467 | The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green/The Ruins of Rome | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FArmstrong%2C%5FDyer%2C%5Fand%5FGreen%2FThe%5FRuins%5Fof%5FRome |
The last train out from the drowsy town with its midnight load of mail, | 14 | 10 | The Call of the North | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCall%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNorth |
One Angel knows it. O might prayer avail | 8 | 1,527 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
She has Mohammed's faith that heaven is pleasure, | 8 | 10 | Poems of Charles Baudelaire/An Allegory | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCharles%5FBaudelaire%2FAn%5FAllegory |
All that seems most opposed to be | 7 | 203 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834/The Zenana | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1834%2FThe%5FZenana |
Is she not beautiful, although so pale? | 7 | 1 | 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 |
By endless riot, vanity, the lust | 6 | 812 | 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 |
“My Donnatello, you, not I, have said | 7 | 107 | The Soul Of A Century/Donatello, A Legend | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FDonatello%2C%5FA%5FLegend |
Ah! who could deem that root of Indian crew | 9 | 718 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
Thou shalt be judge how I do spend my time. | 10 | 103 | Mine own John Poins | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mine%5Fown%5FJohn%5FPoins |
But he tapped it with gentle contempt. | 7 | 28 | A Reminiscence of Cricket | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FReminiscence%5Fof%5FCricket |
The leaves and flowers of the commonest weeds—the moist fresh stillness of the woods, | 14 | 20 | Poem of Joys | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJoys |
The absent look, the careless word, | 6 | 135 | Landon in The New Monthly 1831/The Convict | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1831%2FThe%5FConvict |
And cripples his manhood. So, stricken by fate, I | 9 | 39 | Narrara Creek | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrara%5FCreek |
To show each feature, every limb, | 6 | 115 | 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 |
And body's precious earth and root. | 6 | 793 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
—I could have died upon the battle plain | 8 | 1,124 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
His chariot rattling o'er a bridge of brass. | 8 | 24 | The Smoaker Smoak'd | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSmoaker%5FSmoak%27d |
But be went on in gladness—that fair child! | 8 | 1,478 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
The holy Child have met. | 5 | 4,605 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
And suns that fell | 4 | 46 | Ode to the Abyss | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5Fthe%5FAbyss |
In railway trains he sought retreat, | 6 | 21 | The Ballad of that P.N. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthat%5FP%2EN%2E |
Gifts of delight, sweet stream! on all who move | 9 | 9 | Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs Hemans/On a Scene in the Dargle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poetical%5FRemains%5Fof%5Fthe%5FLate%5FMrs%5FHemans%2FOn%5Fa%5FScene%5Fin%5Fthe%5FDargle |
Twelve axes waited on him, six marching on a side; | 10 | 15 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Virginia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FVirginia |
Through roses choked among thorns and thistles. | 7 | 168 | Eden bower (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eden%5Fbower%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29 |
Ne forsæt he þy siðe,ac sona ongann | 7 | 3,432 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Justice, gem of matchless worth— | 5 | 17 | Ode to Deseret | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FDeseret |
To the pale ear thinned by yon plaster mould. | 9 | 18 | Who Lasts Wins | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%5FLasts%5FWins |
With Justice still the genius of his rhyme, | 8 | 3 | General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems/Shakespeare | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/General%5FWilliam%5FBooth%5Fenters%5Finto%5FHeaven%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FShakespeare |
O'er level paths, with moss and flow'rets strewn; | 8 | 2 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet LXXIII | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2C%5FThe%5FSecond%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLXXIII |
That state obliterate he had at first: | 7 | 130 | Contemplations | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Contemplations |
And what will ye leave your father dear, | 8 | 31 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The fratricide | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FThe%5Ffratricide |
Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with me; | 10 | 25 | Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900/The Dream | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oxford%5FBook%5Fof%5FEnglish%5FVerse%5F1250%2D1900%2FThe%5FDream |
And with His Light of life confounding all!O my own baby boy! my child! | 14 | 100 | A Little Child's Monument/Old Scenes revisited | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FOld%5FScenes%5Frevisited |
Though they get to their goal somewhat slower, | 8 | 55 | A Voice from the Town | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FVoice%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FTown |
His shining name the fair-haired Northman left;*5* | 7 | 94 | The Sydney International Exhibition | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSydney%5FInternational%5FExhibition |
Where, like a solitary child, | 5 | 1,362 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
The lady, at her tapestry, From the great oriel window caroll’d; | 11 | 8 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/The morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FThe%5Fmorning%5Fbefore%5Fthe%5FMassacre%5Fof%5FSt%2E%5FBartholomew |
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, | 9 | 4 | On Monsieur's Departure | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FMonsieur%27s%5FDeparture |
A rush and a wild crying. | 6 | 15 | The Wild Duck | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWild%5FDuck |
And whisper | 2 | 5 | Translations from the Chinese/"The Sun's Over the Foreyard" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2F%22The%5FSun%27s%5FOver%5Fthe%5FForeyard%22 |
Came to the station one morning (and why they did this no one knows) | 14 | 16 | In the Stable | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fthe%5FStable |
Yet failed as woman’s guide. | 5 | 42 | Poems of Experience/The Tides | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FTides |
(Michael, Michael: Michael of the battle-cry!) | 6 | 32 | To St. Michael in Time of Peace | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FSt%2E%5FMichael%5Fin%5FTime%5Fof%5FPeace |
And take them unawares; | 4 | 40 | Battle of Minderoo | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FMinderoo |
and V hund eac;heold þæt folc teala, | 7 | 1,478 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Until the moon lights up a window sill. | 8 | 23 | Secrets (Howard) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Secrets%5F%28Howard%29 |
For purple; these shall wear it as your lords.Ye played like children: die like innocents! | 15 | 848 | Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows |
He still goes on his rounds at night | 8 | 121 | Rover (Kendall) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rover%5F%28Kendall%29 |
To hold and turn it over in my hands | 9 | 807 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Dipsychus/Part 2 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FDipsychus%2FPart%5F2 |
Trampling to silence their loud hopes and fears,Darkening each other with their multitude, | 13 | 67 | Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems/Ode to Liberty | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FUnbound%3B%5Fa%5Flyrical%5Fdrama%5Fin%5Ffour%5Facts%5Fwith%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FOde%5Fto%5FLiberty |
If they won liberty to laudGod on their native mountain side. | 11 | 4 | Bohemian legends and other poems/Bohemia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FBohemia |
And we, no more with longings pale, | 7 | 57 | A Sunset Fantasy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSunset%5FFantasy |
There's never a band to play them out, and the bugle's note is still, | 14 | 19 | The Old Tin Hat | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FTin%5FHat |
And carrion-kite and jay, | 4 | 118 | Lays of Ancient Rome/The Battle of the Lake Regillus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FThe%5FBattle%5Fof%5Fthe%5FLake%5FRegillus |
From the dread place does soft Compassion fly! | 8 | 37 | Dura Navis | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dura%5FNavis |
We cantered to the shore, and knew | 7 | 173 | The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/The Wanderings of Oisin | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin |
I’ve witnessed half a million dawns. | 6 | 4 | Weird Tales/Volume 36/Issue 11/Avalon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F36%2FIssue%5F11%2FAvalon |
Ah! wretch, why was I named son of a Dove, | 10 | 121 | St. Peter's Complaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint |
As our dear Redeemer said | 5 | 57 | My Spectre around me night & day | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FSpectre%5Faround%5Fme%5Fnight%5F%26%5Fday |
With "Bob-in Sweeps" their thirst to quench, | 7 | 7 | That Half-Crown Sweep | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/That%5FHalf%2DCrown%5FSweep |
For the men who conquer deserts have to work. | 9 | 32 | The Men Who Made Australia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMen%5FWho%5FMade%5FAustralia |
The first-born violets of the year shall spring; | 8 | 10 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XXVI | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXXVI |
By the light of Cynthia's crescent, Playing thro' the waving trees; | 11 | 4 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To Miss Catharine Ten Eyck | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5FMiss%5FCatharine%5FTen%5FEyck |
The selfsame rites will to the present bring | 8 | 128 | Ode on the Stability of the British Empire | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fon%5Fthe%5FStability%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBritish%5FEmpire |
His cage was strewn with scattered wheat. | 7 | 92 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
Oh, no matter where the place; | 6 | 4 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHand%5FThat%5FRocks%5Fthe%5FCradle |
The slender rill had strayed, | 5 | 9 | The Two Streams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTwo%5FStreams |
Ez you lay a-list'nin' | 4 | 12 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Song of Summer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FSong%5Fof%5FSummer |
Many still suffer what I tell of one: | 8 | 31 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To Miss Ten Eyck | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5FMiss%5FTen%5FEyck |
Of a life without reversalAll inherit! | 6 | 24 | A Little Child's Monument/All Saints, and All Souls | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FAll%5FSaints%2C%5Fand%5FAll%5FSouls |
Of one dear pledge;--but shall there then be none | 9 | 753 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
In a clamour of calls and acclaim | 7 | 33 | Kingsborough | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kingsborough |
Tremblingly, how was trod the perilous path | 7 | 139 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
somwist incre,ac þu sece eft, | 5 | 2,738 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
And tho' his Face be out of sight, | 8 | 987 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
Well enough, in sooth, he liked that truth, | 8 | 60 | The Devil's Walk | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDevil%27s%5FWalk |
By blushes, gentle sighs, the eloquent signs | 7 | 22 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/The Mine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FThe%5FMine |
Of laughter his compunctions are sincere; | 6 | 615 | 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 |
I formed my uncle's character, | 5 | 11 | On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FDisastrous%5FSpread%5Fof%5FAestheticism%5Fin%5Fall%5FClasses |
From '51 to '61 | 4 | 12 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Are the sails. | 3 | 28 | The Burning Ship at Sea | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBurning%5FShip%5Fat%5FSea |
In the cold silence of the stranger's heart; | 8 | 226 | 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 |
agan to aldre.Gif hit eower ænig mæge | 7 | 512 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Who could be lonely? O ho, not I! | 8 | 8 | Maurine And Other Poems/Life is Love | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FLife%5Fis%5FLove |
The lineaments of Gratified Desire. | 5 | 5 | The Question Answer'd | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FQuestion%5FAnswer%27d |
As where sweet flowers some pastoral garden cheer | 8 | 5,945 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Bow'd down their purple vases of perfume | 7 | 6 | The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/The Fairy Queen Sleeping | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FThe%5FFairy%5FQueen%5FSleeping |
Was near?--yet there, with lust of murd'rous deeds, | 8 | 719 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, | 10 | 31 | The Gipsy Trail | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGipsy%5FTrail |
His countenance, his purse, his heart, his hand, | 8 | 595 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
The chains have come ter bind her – | 8 | 22 | Freedom on the Wallaby | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Freedom%5Fon%5Fthe%5FWallaby |
In that early day, afar, | 5 | 11 | Poems of Experience/Memories | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FMemories |