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Creeping slowly on his way, | 5 | 2 | 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 |
There's much in life to grieve us; | 7 | 110 | Rover (Kendall) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rover%5F%28Kendall%29 |
Fur good to come along, | 5 | 50 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/My Sort O' Man | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FMy%5FSort%5FO%27%5FMan |
Gittin' sort o' skeery; | 4 | 10 | Halloween Failure | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Halloween%5FFailure |
When lo! at the window a shape, | 7 | 13 | The Ghost of the Murderer's Hut | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGhost%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMurderer%27s%5FHut |
So near the brink I stand, | 6 | 6 | Ballad (Hood; "She's up and gone, the graceless girl") | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballad%5F%28Hood%3B%5F%22She%27s%5Fup%5Fand%5Fgone%2C%5Fthe%5Fgraceless%5Fgirl%22%29 |
Have purple flaps on either cheek, | 6 | 933 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Diversified, that two were never found | 6 | 737 | 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 |
There shall be a darker day; | 6 | 57 | Voices of the Night/Midnight Mass for the Dying Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FMidnight%5FMass%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FDying%5FYear |
And tells me that the day will break | 8 | 7 | To a Bird (1892) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FBird%5F%281892%29 |
Now that her eye no longer dwelt on him, | 9 | 2 | The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/Juliet after the Masquerade | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FJuliet%5Fafter%5Fthe%5FMasquerade |
He kisses his child and wife; | 6 | 50 | Poems of Experience/The Voice of the Voiceless | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FVoice%5Fof%5Fthe%5FVoiceless |
Lest we forget, lest we forget! | 6 | 16 | McClure's Magazine/Volume 9/Number 6/Recessional | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McClure%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F9%2FNumber%5F6%2FRecessional |
If I live, | 3 | 24 | Little fly | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Little%5Ffly |
Only the sound of a rapturous song Throbbed in the tremulous light; | 12 | 6 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1724/A Feather | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1724%2FA%5FFeather |
Were happy shepherds and their flocks, | 6 | 162 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/Sir Tristem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FSir%5FTristem |
Her heart beat faster as they nearer drew, | 8 | 13 | The Infantry that Would Not Yield | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FInfantry%5Fthat%5FWould%5FNot%5FYield |
Spring slattern of seasons | 4 | 13 | Spring omnipotent goddess Thou | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Spring%5Fomnipotent%5Fgoddess%5FThou |
Love face to face revealed: | 5 | 1,029 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Or at best but a Devil's Elixir. | 7 | 54 | Birds of Passage (Collection)/Catawba Wine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Birds%5Fof%5FPassage%5F%28Collection%29%2FCatawba%5FWine |
Drowned out from him that moment.As he stood | 8 | 70 | Aurora Leigh/First Book | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora%5FLeigh%2FFirst%5FBook |
But onward moved the melancholy train, | 6 | 153 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
And Time, who decks his flowers with tears, | 8 | 6 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/An autumn birthday | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FAn%5Fautumn%5Fbirthday |
What Colour best becomes them, and what Smell. | 8 | 8 | The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPicture%5Fof%5FLittle%5FT%2EC%2E%5Fin%5Fa%5FProspect%5Fof%5FFlowers |
She, the Maiden of Kercheezer, | 5 | 5 | The Maiden of Kercheezer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMaiden%5Fof%5FKercheezer |
Behold! the floods apart are flung,—And where the circling eddies rise, | 11 | 4 | Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2/The Mermaid | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F1%2FIssue%5F2%2FThe%5FMermaid |
Between the pulses of the sun(The light and dark still fitful coming) | 12 | 11 | 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 |
Dedera was also urgingThat I should decide, | 7 | 42 | Tyrolean Elegies | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tyrolean%5FElegies |
His fancy flitted through, | 4 | 6 | Grimm Tales Made Gay/How Rumplestilz Held Out in Vain for a Bonus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grimm%5FTales%5FMade%5FGay%2FHow%5FRumplestilz%5FHeld%5FOut%5Fin%5FVain%5Ffor%5Fa%5FBonus |
And corn was up, and rent was down two-thirds.... | 9 | 486 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
Like -- (No libels here, my sonny. -- Ed. B.) | 10 | 10 | Who is Kater Anyhow? | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%5Fis%5FKater%5FAnyhow%3F |
Thine too those musically-falling founts | 5 | 241 | 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 |
Death-lone on that far strange shore; | 6 | 55 | 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 |
A farm house by the river. | 6 | 8 | The Farm House by the River | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFarm%5FHouse%5Fby%5Fthe%5FRiver |
"And people have an awful down | 6 | 7 | Hay and Hell and Booligal | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hay%5Fand%5FHell%5Fand%5FBooligal |
And there I'll lie and dream | 6 | 112 | Life of William Blake (1863), Volume 2/Poetical Sketches | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FBlake%5F%281863%29%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2FPoetical%5FSketches |
With dances and with songs: | 5 | 15 | A Song to David | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid |
So you better not go spa'kin' wif dat wuffless scoun'el Quin! | 11 | 36 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Letter | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FLetter |
From ages past, yet fields were tilled, | 7 | 34 | St. John's Eve (Kochanowski) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29 |
Cannot endure reproof, | 3 | 32 | An Ode to Himself | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FOde%5Fto%5FHimself |
Thou furrowest space, | 3 | 21 | Chant to Sirius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chant%5Fto%5FSirius |
While she sasshay 'roun' an' bow, | 6 | 5 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Looking-Glass | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLooking%2DGlass |
Dey 's a moughty One a-comin' fu' to baih yo' load; | 11 | 7 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Spiritual | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FSpiritual |
fædergeardum feor,þær him freolecu mæg, | 5 | 1,263 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Some traces of her youthful beauty left) | 7 | 299 | 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 |
Ma'ch yo'se'f an wash yo' face, | 6 | 25 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/In the Morning | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FIn%5Fthe%5FMorning |
For improving the prisons of Hell. | 6 | 88 | The Devil's Walk | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDevil%27s%5FWalk |
And youthful Rome intent: the kindred foes | 7 | 111 | 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 |
Some blamed the men and others blamed the luck! | 9 | 93 | Father Riley's Horse | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Father%5FRiley%27s%5FHorse |
'Twas in the eleventh moon I wentwool gathering in the dim, | 11 | 1 | The Eleventh Moon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEleventh%5FMoon |
And still enjoy the fruits of universal sway. | 8 | 308 | The Tears of Khorassan | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTears%5Fof%5FKhorassan |
The thoughts of it do me provoke,for why, alas I fear | 11 | 400 | Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy |
That speak with God and morning, high | 7 | 59 | Orara | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Orara |
But hearts with grief are breaking, And one shall wed Despair. | 11 | 20 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/England's suttee | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FEngland%27s%5Fsuttee |
'Twixt the day and the dark, | 6 | 4 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Twilight | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTwilight |
Because he was five and a man-- | 7 | 6 | The Light That Failed (headings) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLight%5FThat%5FFailed%5F%28headings%29 |
swyðe mid sorgum gedrefed. Forgif me, swegles ealdor, | 8 | 88 | Poem of Judith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJudith |
Perch'd on the sign-post, holds with even hand | 8 | 483 | 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 |
But a course of "stag and brownie" seems to make the bush-struck towny | 13 | 8 | The Overflow of Clancy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOverflow%5Fof%5FClancy |
Crowned heads melt away in the skies, | 7 | 18 | Poems of Cheer/The Ocean of Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FThe%5FOcean%5Fof%5FSong |
To Congress said George Washington: "Since I must must them all | 11 | 23 | Why Washington Retreated | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why%5FWashington%5FRetreated |
(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar) | 13 | 7 | Clancy of the Overflow | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Clancy%5Fof%5Fthe%5FOverflow |
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, | 7 | 625 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
And now the L—d knows whither he is gone. | 9 | 4 | The Works of Henry Fielding/Another. On A Wicked Fellow, Who Was A Great Blunderer. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FAnother%2E%5FOn%5FA%5FWicked%5FFellow%2C%5FWho%5FWas%5FA%5FGreat%5FBlunderer%2E |
Shadow delicate fell fast | 4 | 147 | A Little Child's Monument/Music and the Child | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FMusic%5Fand%5Fthe%5FChild |
Above the skirt of yellow clouds | 6 | 1 | Christmas Morning in the Bush | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Christmas%5FMorning%5Fin%5Fthe%5FBush |
Both him of Merchiston, and Maskelyne,— | 6 | 584 | To Bourke's Statue | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue |
Perhaps in your fragile | 4 | 12 | The Mystic Rose | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMystic%5FRose |
And only the eye that has looked on snows | 9 | 29 | Poems of Experience/The Awakening | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FAwakening |
He took his load from the stretcher men and hurried 'em homeward fast | 13 | 19 | Driver Smith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Driver%5FSmith |
The spilling of her blood by foreign knife, | 8 | 867 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
What's de use o' keerin' | 5 | 39 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Plantation Child's Lullaby | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FPlantation%5FChild%27s%5FLullaby |
Their courage like a banner blown. | 6 | 976 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
Like night that fled but shrunk not, dusking all | 9 | 135 | Saturn (Smith) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saturn%5F%28Smith%29 |
hatað under heofnumand þin heafod tredeð | 6 | 1,094 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
On blosmy twig still swinging from the breeze, | 8 | 84 | Lyrical Ballads (1798)/The Nightingale, a Conversational Poem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical%5FBallads%5F%281798%29%2FThe%5FNightingale%2C%5Fa%5FConversational%5FPoem |
And see—just at that moment dread, | 6 | 199 | Bohemian legends and other poems/The Wedding Shirt | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FThe%5FWedding%5FShirt |
As all the drugs that the doctors know. | 8 | 32 | Conroy's Gap | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Conroy%27s%5FGap |
When Life's gay dawn was opening to my view? | 9 | 4 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet X | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FX |
With voice that bore her joy in ev’ry tone, | 9 | 2,008 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
I remember oft o' standin' | 5 | 17 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Ol' Tunes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FOl%27%5FTunes |
Like the burnished spears of a field of gold; | 9 | 3 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Corn-Stalk Fiddle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FCorn%2DStalk%5FFiddle |
The mare proceeded to amuse, | 5 | 27 | Ballad of the Jelly-Cake | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FJelly%2DCake |
At the bleak end of night; he shivered there | 9 | 2 | The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon/Break of Day | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWar%5FPoems%5Fof%5FSiegfried%5FSassoon%2FBreak%5Fof%5FDay |
To ceaseless action goading human thought | 6 | 219 | Religious Musings (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Religious%5FMusings%5F%28unsourced%29 |
By the road-side and the borders of the brook, | 9 | 42 | Summer Wind | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Summer%5FWind |
And grins with horse-teeth, white and large, at every one he meets, | 12 | 28 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/The Saturnalia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FThe%5FSaturnalia |
At ten A.M. the young housewife | 6 | 1 | The Young Housewife | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYoung%5FHousewife |
Wherefore stay to talk of fainting, when the sun, with sinking fire, | 12 | 19 | Fainting by the Way | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fainting%5Fby%5Fthe%5FWay |
Between the advancing grave and breaking death, | 7 | 222 | Biography (Masefield) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Biography%5F%28Masefield%29 |
To bid afflicted Virtue take new state, | 7 | 1,268 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
They sigh a monstrous foul-air sigh | 6 | 25 | Poems of Sidney Lanier/The Symphony | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FThe%5FSymphony |
O life descending into death, | 5 | 11 | The Stream of Life (Clough) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStream%5Fof%5FLife%5F%28Clough%29 |
London has been my prison; but my books | 8 | 131 | Biography (Masefield) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Biography%5F%28Masefield%29 |
And the harder look in those eyes of blue: | 9 | 23 | Jim Carew | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jim%5FCarew |
sighs burst forth, his Children all in arms appear to tear him from | 13 | 60 | Then She bore Pale desire/edited | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Then%5FShe%5Fbore%5FPale%5Fdesire%2Fedited |
A lover whom duty called over the wave, | 8 | 1 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lover And The Moon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLover%5FAnd%5FThe%5FMoon |
The fog-bank glides unguessed, | 4 | 33 | Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918/The Bell Buoy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rudyard%5FKipling%27s%5FVerse%2C%5FInclusive%5FEdition%2C%5F1885%2D1918%2FThe%5FBell%5FBuoy |
To see her noblest structure fall so soon. | 8 | 25 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/Elegy on the Death of Cleora | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FElegy%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FCleora |
Is throned upon a heap of monstrous rocks | 8 | 9 | Medusa | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Medusa |
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