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At thy beloved feet to kneel— | 6 | 194 | 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 |
Looks all about, sighs deeply as in a daze. | 9 | 629 | May (Mácha) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29 |
And bear the tribute to their native soil: | 8 | 71 | Warrington Academy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Warrington%5FAcademy |
Cards were superfluous here, with all the tricks | 8 | 207 | 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 |
Was curiously bedight. | 3 | 44 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Haunted Oak | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FHaunted%5FOak |
Was ever more great of heart than she. | 8 | 87 | Alice Ayres (Blake) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%5FAyres%5F%28Blake%29 |
And speed thy axle o'er the azure plains? | 8 | 18 | Poems Sigourney 1827/The Georgian Planet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FThe%5FGeorgian%5FPlanet |
Did you hear him murmur, "Love!" | 6 | 23 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Monk's Walk | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FMonk%27s%5FWalk |
And, granting that the child may have a name, | 9 | 690 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
ceapas to cnosle.Carran ofgif, | 4 | 2,096 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
For we left behind our wildest rider,Only three of us kept up the pace, | 14 | 17 | The Soul Of A Century/A dream | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FA%5Fdream |
Magnificently gay. Here streak'd with gold, | 6 | 271 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/Joseph | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FJoseph |
And scanty clothing, seeking to conceal | 6 | 2 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Faristan and Fatima | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FFaristan%5Fand%5FFatima |
But yet, for us whose brains and hearts | 8 | 73 | Dreams & Dust/The Tavern of Despair | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dreams%5F%26%5FDust%2FThe%5FTavern%5Fof%5FDespair |
Says the Agnostic: "It may be so | 7 | 1 | To-Day/The Agnostic | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%2DDay%2FThe%5FAgnostic |
Of bill for coin and box for bale? | 8 | 5 | Poems of Sidney Lanier/The Symphony | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FThe%5FSymphony |
And dead is all their human truth. | 7 | 34 | The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/The Song of the Happy Shepherd | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FSong%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHappy%5FShepherd |
Above all earth's anxietyFrom that same hour. | 7 | 24 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/After While | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FAfter%5FWhile |
"To the pyre!" an instinct prompted: pallid face, | 8 | 645 | Balaustion's Adventure/III | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII |
And new-found agate urns as fresh as day, | 8 | 99 | Bells and Pomegranates, Second Series/The Tomb at Saint Praxed's | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bells%5Fand%5FPomegranates%2C%5FSecond%5FSeries%2FThe%5FTomb%5Fat%5FSaint%5FPraxed%27s |
Which is it? Which March is it already?! | 8 | 20 | Di – stance: versts, miles | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Di%5F%E2%80%93%5Fstance%3A%5Fversts%2C%5Fmiles |
Her cable-swivels clanged at every shock. | 6 | 44 | The Wanderer (Masefield) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderer%5F%28Masefield%29 |
Of outward and perilous deeps, | 5 | 18 | To the Sun (Smith) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FSun%5F%28Smith%29 |
Yet I could deem it better too to starve | 9 | 1,100 | 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 |
The dawn came up on Bradlow Knoll, | 7 | 1,466 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
seventy- two excellent hosts | 4 | 119 | 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 |
Use wiles for wit, and make deceit a pleasure | 9 | 33 | Of the Courtier's Life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of%5Fthe%5FCourtier%27s%5FLife |
It was not madness quite; | 5 | 26 | A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FPrisoner%5Fin%5Fa%5FDungeon%5FDeep |
I think, betwixt the poles; | 5 | 33 | Marsupial Bill | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marsupial%5FBill |
One beat the beef-cask, and the others sang | 8 | 446 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
Now vice prepares the formidable blow, | 6 | 172 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/Joseph | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FJoseph |
Than what prouder sports impart. | 5 | 20 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Nutting Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FNutting%5FSong |
Fuse nations in thy kindly heat,And melt the chains of each! | 11 | 20 | The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 5/The Telegraph | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F5%2FThe%5FTelegraph |
See we our God so nigh. | 6 | 5,593 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
If he’s untidy now, what will he be——? | 8 | 175 | North of Boston/The Housekeeper | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FHousekeeper |
And the tall pines that towered around. | 7 | 6 | The Lake — To —— | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLake%5F%E2%80%94%5FTo%5F%E2%80%94%E2%80%94 |
Their days are either pass'd in doing nothing, | 8 | 708 | Beppo (Lord Byron) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29 |
We've come all this distance salvation to win agog, | 9 | 92 | The Scapegoat (Paterson) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FScapegoat%5F%28Paterson%29 |
Fu' to tease ol' Pa'son Hedgehog, givin' of a dance; | 10 | 7 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/De Critters' Dance | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDe%5FCritters%27%5FDance |
While Jouk with language glib as oolie, | 7 | 222 | Ancient history of three bonnets | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets |
He clapped his hand on Auster's mane, | 7 | 501 | 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 |
Three hundred pounds per annum spent | 6 | 7 | Arithmetic on the Frontier | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arithmetic%5Fon%5Fthe%5FFrontier |
To haunt of the wide world a spot | 8 | 2 | The Lake — To —— | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLake%5F%E2%80%94%5FTo%5F%E2%80%94%E2%80%94 |
We were not great guns at cricket, but we couldn't well say, "No!" | 13 | 11 | How M'Dougal Topped the Score | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FM%27Dougal%5FTopped%5Fthe%5FScore |
Where be her kindred? where its sire? | 7 | 21 | A Selection of Original Songs, Scraps, Etc., by Ned Farmer/The Gypsy Mother | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSelection%5Fof%5FOriginal%5FSongs%2C%5FScraps%2C%5FEtc%2E%2C%5Fby%5FNed%5FFarmer%2FThe%5FGypsy%5FMother |
Here high amid our mountain sky, | 6 | 54 | We hail the day | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/We%5Fhail%5Fthe%5Fday |
Drops her last gem into the doomsday flame. | 8 | 62 | Pocahontas and Other Poems (New York)/Monody on Mrs. Hemans | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pocahontas%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%5F%28New%5FYork%29%2FMonody%5Fon%5FMrs%2E%5FHemans |
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, | 8 | 4 | McClure's Magazine/Volume 9/Number 6/When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McClure%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F9%2FNumber%5F6%2FWhen%5FI%5FHeard%5Fthe%5FLearn%27d%5FAstronomer |
That fain would hold her captive, she is free— | 9 | 12 | Belgium (Coates) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Belgium%5F%28Coates%29 |
ongunnon cohhetan, cirman hlude | 4 | 270 | Poem of Judith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJudith |
Upon the tyrant's throne—the sepulchre, | 5 | 95 | A Forest Hymn | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FForest%5FHymn |
God made his ministry a silent one, | 7 | 13 | January 1, 1829 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/January%5F1%2C%5F1829 |
Spring's amaranth, drooping in the shade. | 6 | 50 | May (Mácha) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29 |
Woman, he ſaid, I may not caſt, | 7 | 508 | Wife of Beith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith |
But, since they will take them, I think I'll go too. | 11 | 39 | Pity the Poor Africans | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pity%5Fthe%5FPoor%5FAfricans |
A gang that seized the football for a lark. | 9 | 40 | Old Schooldays | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Old%5FSchooldays |
"What magic pow'rs in[15] Celia's numbers dwell, | 7 | 265 | The feminead: or, Female genius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Ffeminead%3A%5For%2C%5FFemale%5Fgenius |
Was all the same to Cassidy. | 6 | 24 | Cassidy's Epitaph | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cassidy%27s%5FEpitaph |
And plainly and more plainly | 5 | 205 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius |
So let Thy turtle-dove's sad call arise | 7 | 2,311 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine? | 8 | 265 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
"Rincas mine,restað incit | 3 | 3,457 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
But not the less there lurks below | 7 | 50 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840/The Portrait of Lord Byron, at Newstead Abbey | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1840%2FThe%5FPortrait%5Fof%5FLord%5FByron%2C%5Fat%5FNewstead%5FAbbey |
Home?—aye, the brutes are happier than the man! | 8 | 6 | 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 |
What is Your Ladyship's mood? | 5 | 23 | The Wishing-Caps | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWishing%2DCaps |
But I trust we shall meet—in town. | 7 | 32 | Maurine And Other Poems/“Advice” | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2F%E2%80%9CAdvice%E2%80%9D |
Gales from Heaven, if so He will, | 7 | 134 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
When mystery imparts a keener zest; | 6 | 30 | Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme |
the battell was nat half done. | 6 | 200 | The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29 |
And yet one woe may deeper move, | 7 | 39 | A Little Child's Monument/Death | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FDeath |
'---Oh Goddess! let your powerful arms | 6 | 36 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To Mr. Bleecker | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5FMr%2E%5FBleecker |
But their tongues restrain'd from walking | 6 | 1,523 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
With that which you receiv'd on other terms, | 8 | 639 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
I was buried near this Dike | 6 | 5 | Another Epitaph (I was buried near this Dike) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Another%5FEpitaph%5F%28I%5Fwas%5Fburied%5Fnear%5Fthis%5FDike%29 |
Beneath, each bold and promontory mound | 6 | 699 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
Swept down the Murrumbidgee; | 4 | 36 | A Mountain Station | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FMountain%5FStation |
But men must burst their bracesWith laughter as of yore. | 10 | 8 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3824/The Great Shock | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3824%2FThe%5FGreat%5FShock |
To manhood's home and thunder at the gate? | 8 | 8 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Robert Gould Shaw | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FRobert%5FGould%5FShaw |
A howling thing ’neath prison bars, | 6 | 9 | Weird Tales/Volume 9/Issue 3/Wolf | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F9%2FIssue%5F3%2FWolf |
From Coln St. Evelyn's with the party. | 7 | 519 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
“Hahhah! be damned that yellow gold | 6 | 182 | The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Spectre's Bride | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FSpectre%27s%5FBride |
And all Thy mystery to understand. | 6 | 4 | Shir Hakovod | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shir%5FHakovod |
Shall break, unveil'd for terror or delight? | 7 | 3 | Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 43 1835/Thoughts During Sickness V. Flight of the Spirit | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Felicia%5FHemans%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5FMagazine%5FVolume%5F43%5F1835%2FThoughts%5FDuring%5FSickness%5FV%2E%5FFlight%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSpirit |
We shall not sleep ! | 5 | 43 | In Memoriam: John McCrae | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5FMemoriam%3A%5FJohn%5FMcCrae |
'Ll be proud, you bet yo' life. | 7 | 42 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Encouragement | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FEncouragement |
And the favourite's friends devoutly cursedOld Premier's gamest daughter. | 9 | 25 | Verses Inspired by my "Old Black Pipe" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5FInspired%5Fby%5Fmy%5F%22Old%5FBlack%5FPipe%22 |
As hear these women's jaw-teeth chattering; | 6 | 271 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/St. Dorothy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FSt%2E%5FDorothy |
Famishing children weep at her bosom; | 6 | 56 | Modern Czech Poetry/The pitman | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern%5FCzech%5FPoetry%2FThe%5Fpitman |
Unknown, tho' Fame goes with me; I must leave | 9 | 8 | Records of Woman: with Other Poems/Properzia Rossi | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Records%5Fof%5FWoman%3A%5Fwith%5FOther%5FPoems%2FProperzia%5FRossi |
With angels in strong level flight. | 6 | 137 | The Blessed Damozel (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlessed%5FDamozel%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29 |
Or, like that race whom the dire deluge slew, | 9 | 29 | Poems Sigourney 1827/The Georgian Planet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FThe%5FGeorgian%5FPlanet |
In bitter thoughts of low-born care begun, | 7 | 2,914 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Of love to last eternally. | 5 | 4,352 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
That we were parted thus for years— | 7 | 69 | Birth-day Verses | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Birth%2Dday%5FVerses |
With black usurping mists, som gentle taper | 7 | 309 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
And censure freely who have written well.Authors are partial to their Wit, 'tis true, | 14 | 17 | An Essay on Criticism | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism |
Whose home is in the green, | 6 | 26 | Orara | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Orara |
Duty that’s to say, complying, | 5 | 1 | Duty (Clough) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Duty%5F%28Clough%29 |
But you stand without in the dark and cold, | 9 | 9 | A Woman's Mood | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FWoman%27s%5FMood |
And they are held in the light of my dreams | 10 | 50 | A Song of Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fof%5FDreams |
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