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With a blue flag, and crooked horn, | 7 | 174 | Peter's Banquet, or, The Cavalier in the Dumps | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Peter%27s%5FBanquet%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5FCavalier%5Fin%5Fthe%5FDumps |
Save a few ships their lonely progress cleaving, | 8 | 15 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838/The Village of Kursalee | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1838%2FThe%5FVillage%5Fof%5FKursalee |
Their Father's joy, their hops alone? | 6 | 2,755 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
She ran her ell ſae deep in debt, | 8 | 460 | Ancient history of three bonnets | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets |
That winds its way 'mid grassy knolls, | 7 | 23 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/Love in a Cottage | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FLove%5Fin%5Fa%5FCottage |
When, with her darling on her knee, | 7 | 6,202 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
And lights a weak and dwindled race, | 7 | 34 | Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse/The Giving of the Bible to the Esquimaux | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral%5FPieces%2C%5Fin%5FProse%5Fand%5FVerse%2FThe%5FGiving%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBible%5Fto%5Fthe%5FEsquimaux |
Bettah dan de day. | 4 | 4 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Summer Night | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FSummer%5FNight |
A thrill so true and yet so slight, | 8 | 179 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Ione | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FIone |
Drawing the slow waves whiter and whiter and whiter. | 9 | 25 | North of Boston/A Servant to Servants | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FA%5FServant%5Fto%5FServants |
Shalt thou drink from the springs that are emptied, | 9 | 13 | A Song of Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fof%5FDreams |
Our wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so. | 9 | 386 | An Essay on Criticism | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism |
She arms our sons, she bids them nobly dare, | 9 | 140 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/A Pastoral Dialogue | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FA%5FPastoral%5FDialogue |
His gentle daughter to his breast, | 6 | 376 | Christabel; Kubla Khan; The Pains of Sleep (1816)/Christabel | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Christabel%3B%5FKubla%5FKhan%3B%5FThe%5FPains%5Fof%5FSleep%5F%281816%29%2FChristabel |
'T would give my spirit stronger wings to know | 9 | 15 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Love-Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FLove%2DSong |
Ah, that is the best of joy. | 7 | 22 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Boy's Summer Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FBoy%27s%5FSummer%5FSong |
Of anything which may bring down the dread | 8 | 3 | Weird Tales/Volume 35/Issue 4/Ears of the Dead | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F35%2FIssue%5F4%2FEars%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDead |
So they bathed, and read, and roamed in heathery Highland; | 10 | 33 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/5 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F5 |
To step within a heavier shade. | 6 | 29 | Ave Caesar! Te Morituri Salutant! | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ave%5FCaesar%21%5FTe%5FMorituri%5FSalutant%21 |
Under the spreading favour of these Pines, | 7 | 189 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
And stanch the bleedings of a broken heart. | 8 | 322 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
And all admir'd his priestly care. | 6 | 16 | Nought loves another as itself | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nought%5Floves%5Fanother%5Fas%5Fitself |
And mickle thinks she o’ the Laird o’ Cockpen. | 9 | 32 | Four excellent songs (10)/The Laird of Cockpen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Four%5Fexcellent%5Fsongs%5F%2810%29%2FThe%5FLaird%5Fof%5FCockpen |
Recoiling quick, thou badest the friend of pain | 8 | 101 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281834%29 |
A lion rampant on my crest;55 Me, who have fill'd your empty coffers, | 13 | 45 | Madam and the Magpie | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Madam%5Fand%5Fthe%5FMagpie |
Then take in hand thy lyre; | 6 | 25 | An Ode to Himself | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FOde%5Fto%5FHimself |
And smiles with anxious looks, his earliest friends, | 8 | 3 | A Tombless Epitaph (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FTombless%5FEpitaph%5F%28unsourced%29 |
The beasts are pulling as bullocks must; | 7 | 8 | The Teams (Lawson) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTeams%5F%28Lawson%29 |
Prospero had One Caliban & I have Two | 8 | 6 | Old acquaintance well renew | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Old%5Facquaintance%5Fwell%5Frenew |
E'er he should suffer any wrong,his cause they would defend. | 10 | 292 | Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy |
Adopting their mistake, profoundly thinks 270 | 6 | 270 | 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 |
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep | 9 | 21 | Mountain Interval/Out, Out— | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FOut%2C%5FOut%E2%80%94 |
And I rush'd forward with a yearning breast, | 8 | 956 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
Why did I try a faith I should have known | 10 | 133 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Scene 1 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FScene%5F1 |
Ez you t'ink erbout de grave— | 6 | 18 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Joggin' Erlong | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FJoggin%27%5FErlong |
The temple with the pillars at the porch! | 8 | 352 | Balaustion's Adventure/I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FI |
By night. | 2 | 5 | The Mermaid (Westermann) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMermaid%5F%28Westermann%29 |
I almost thought myself transported back | 6 | 32 | My First View of a Western Prairie | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FFirst%5FView%5Fof%5Fa%5FWestern%5FPrairie |
Shows on his deed,—the charter of the soil! | 8 | 8 | The Ploughman (Holmes) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPloughman%5F%28Holmes%29 |
The sun, like a billiard red ball, hung | 8 | 3 | A Ballad of Ducks | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBallad%5Fof%5FDucks |
How lies the world in peaceful sleep! | 7 | 2 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1698/A Morning Hymn | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1698%2FA%5FMorning%5FHymn |
Journeys alone, along the giddy height | 6 | 4 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet LII | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLII |
Estimate, and of a step (such a step!) in the dark to be taken, | 14 | 13 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/8 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F8 |
The boy was pale with dungeon gloom, yet was he still and stern, | 13 | 60 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/The boy martyr | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FThe%5Fboy%5Fmartyr |
"Ay, ay, too much he loves a guest, | 8 | 77 | Balaustion's Adventure/IV | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIV |
Eastward the buzzing tram-ear dips Adown Commercial Road, | 8 | 1 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3819/To Limehouse | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3819%2FTo%5FLimehouse |
Nor know, if Dennis be alive or dead. | 8 | 270 | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Fto%5FDr%5FArbuthnot |
Between the course and the sand, | 6 | 70 | McClure's Magazine/Volume 8/Number 4/The Bell-Buoy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McClure%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F8%2FNumber%5F4%2FThe%5FBell%2DBuoy |
Of the story, read to its bitter close; | 8 | 50 | A Woman's Mood | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FWoman%27s%5FMood |
In the warm flushed heart of the rose-red west, | 9 | 1 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/My Queen of Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FMy%5FQueen%5Fof%5FDreams |
Life, wherein good resolve should go to air, | 8 | 376 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
Heavy blows, and not much speaking, | 6 | 8 | Bohemian legends and other poems/Smith's Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FSmith%27s%5FSong |
They placed the cap upon his brow,Painted with devils strange and wild, | 12 | 18 | Bohemian legends and other poems/John Huss | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FJohn%5FHuss |
Abandon'd, and, which still I more regret, | 7 | 692 | 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 |
Whose life and deeds and songs agree, | 7 | 4 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Whittier | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FWhittier |
Of true love’s least, least ecstasy?” | 6 | 12 | Poems of Sidney Lanier/The Symphony | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FThe%5FSymphony |
Words that like summer light and airFill’d my heart’s world with gold and blue. | 14 | 93 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Once upon a time | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FOnce%5Fupon%5Fa%5Ftime |
He heareth like a torrent press | 6 | 11 | Enamels and Cameos/The Blind Man | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Enamels%5Fand%5FCameos%2FThe%5FBlind%5FMan |
Pale Wayfarers, whose noiseless tread | 5 | 13 | The Wayfarers (Essex) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWayfarers%5F%28Essex%29 |
Had lit upon; where Jacob too had lain | 8 | 19 | St. John Baptist | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%5FBaptist |
When snows descend, and clouds tumultuous fly | 7 | 38 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To Mr. Bleecker, on his passage to New-York | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5FMr%2E%5FBleecker%2C%5Fon%5Fhis%5Fpassage%5Fto%5FNew%2DYork |
Which serv 'd his Helpmate for a Reason, | 8 | 786 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
At vows that I would love her till the grave, | 10 | 16 | Cupid's Revenge | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cupid%27s%5FRevenge |
Outspread about my fall. | 4 | 13 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Stupidity | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FStupidity |
An' aldough de rain fall down, | 6 | 32 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Keep A Song Up On De Way | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FKeep%5FA%5FSong%5FUp%5FOn%5FDe%5FWay |
I set my teeth, and manfully | 6 | 63 | On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FDisastrous%5FSpread%5Fof%5FAestheticism%5Fin%5Fall%5FClasses |
The Soldier may forget his sword,The Sailorman the sea, | 9 | 1 | A Diversity of Creatures/The Press | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDiversity%5Fof%5FCreatures%2FThe%5FPress |
Woman, if I have wronged you, it was for good | 10 | 105 | Dipsychus Continued | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dipsychus%5FContinued |
When the shades of evening gather,Like a dark cloud in the sky, | 12 | 7 | Bohemian legends and other poems/The Wizard | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FThe%5FWizard |
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; | 9 | 52 | Prufrock and Other Observations/The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FThe%5FLove%5FSong%5Fof%5FJ%2E%5FAlfred%5FPrufrock |
If the days were very dull, or | 7 | 25 | Struck It At Last | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Struck%5FIt%5FAt%5FLast |
We know no more dim airs from aery main; | 9 | 101 | A Little Child's Monument/Among the Mountains | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FAmong%5Fthe%5FMountains |
Next I gort th' inspecter, and you knows 'ow 'awsh they be, | 12 | 2 | The Curick | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCurick |
The roughest crowd that ever drew breath — | 8 | 14 | Conroy's Gap | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Conroy%27s%5FGap |
Nor shall our nightly prayers forget | 6 | 24 | Poems for the Sea/Parting | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FSea%2FParting |
The delicate droplet, my whole fortune's fee! | 7 | 44 | Bells and Pomegranates, Second Series/The Laboratory | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bells%5Fand%5FPomegranates%2C%5FSecond%5FSeries%2FThe%5FLaboratory |
More redly the blood of their foemen shall flow. | 9 | 10 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Hindoo Temples on the Mountain-Lake of Aboo | 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%2FHindoo%5FTemples%5Fon%5Fthe%5FMountain%2DLake%5Fof%5FAboo |
High aims, young spirits, birth of royal line, | 8 | 543 | St. Peter's Complaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint |
With joint assistance to grace one another | 7 | 322 | A Funeral Elegy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FFuneral%5FElegy |
As witchfire glimmers through a pool, | 6 | 3 | One Blood Strain | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/One%5FBlood%5FStrain |
"Well, let me pass and let's be on." | 8 | 425 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
With all of autumn's gray bereft; | 6 | 6 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Weltschmertz | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FWeltschmertz |
A voice came to me from the night, and said, | 10 | 1 | A Song of Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fof%5FDreams |
We should not think of Him at all, but trudge it, | 11 | 482 | 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 |
When you had to leave the missus in a lonely hut forlorn | 12 | 75 | In Answer to Banjo, and Otherwise | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5FAnswer%5Fto%5FBanjo%2C%5Fand%5FOtherwise |
My lady love lives far away, | 6 | 1 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Lyric | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FLyric |
At times I steal in solitary flight | 7 | 41 | Song of a Comet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fa%5FComet |
She greet each gent at head of stairs, | 8 | 347 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Windowless, pillarless, multitudinous home | 4 | 576 | 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 |
Has brush'd away. | 3 | 9 | Little fly | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Little%5Ffly |
—O thou, Canova! soaring high above | 6 | 5 | Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 7/The Hebe of Canova | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hemans%5FMiscellaneous%5FPoetry%5F7%2FThe%5FHebe%5Fof%5FCanova |
And with low murmurs prayed to him, | 7 | 252 | 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 |
Returning now to Thames's flow'ry side, | 6 | 307 | The feminead: or, Female genius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Ffeminead%3A%5For%2C%5FFemale%5Fgenius |
They live and die; their names decay, | 7 | 870 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
To make the wretched soul rejoice, | 6 | 163 | The Three Guides | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FThree%5FGuides |
Ah! what to me can those dear days restore, | 9 | 13 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XXXI | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXXXI |
Cut off that charter they from Nature drew, | 8 | 21 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
Is fain to dwell - | 5 | 2,349 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Of beauty and delight; | 4 | 33 | 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 |
Of points and edges, and underneath | 6 | 211 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Sword Blades and Poppy Seed | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FSword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed |
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