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Smilin' den an' poutin' now, | 5 | 6 | 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 |
But still for years they never had | 7 | 19 | The Bushfire | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBushfire |
And Fairy’s eyes looked raptureAs her great soft violets can. | 10 | 10 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Jolly anglers | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FJolly%5Fanglers |
The boy fell weeping on his breast,And there had gladly died, | 11 | 51 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/The Father of the Regiment | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F5%2FThe%5FFather%5Fof%5Fthe%5FRegiment |
Bright etched in silver which coldly glowed | 7 | 11 | House of Life (Quick) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/House%5Fof%5FLife%5F%28Quick%29 |
And make good farmers, and leave other fellows | 8 | 105 | Mountain Interval/In the Home Stretch | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FIn%5Fthe%5FHome%5FStretch |
Lifts up her voice, and in her anguish weeps! | 9 | 21 | Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stanzas%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FLord%5FByron |
Now will I attempt to know | 6 | 1,057 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Like some whipped dog among my kind. | 7 | 26 | Poems of Experience/Pardoned Out | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FPardoned%5FOut |
Words cannot tell how bright and gay | 7 | 21 | The Rivulet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRivulet |
He had hunted them out of the One Tree Hill | 10 | 19 | How Gilbert Died | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FGilbert%5FDied |
When pain's iron bars | 4 | 16 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Patience | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FPatience |
The lowest in the meanest task - | 7 | 5,027 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Her odors and soft airs through swaying branches;--- | 8 | 4 | Ode (1852) (Sargent) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5F%281852%29%5F%28Sargent%29 |
Makes needful still, whose spring is but the child | 9 | 432 | 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 |
Dear killer, spare not thy sweet cruel shot: | 8 | 673 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
(As I will give you when we go) you may | 10 | 606 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
What things are good, and right, and just; | 8 | 20 | Duty (Clough) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Duty%5F%28Clough%29 |
The ground of this fierce Love and lovely hate: | 9 | 839 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
The badly-clothed or the evil-shoed, | 5 | 3 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1698/A Song of the Period | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1698%2FA%5FSong%5Fof%5Fthe%5FPeriod |
"But who is this?" The moon's bright spell | 8 | 105 | May (Mácha) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29 |
Heath Wood, Sir Peter's best to draw." | 7 | 1,138 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
Nor will her fairy loom again essay | 7 | 7 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XLVIII | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXLVIII |
This ruthless sortie terror caused, ’tis plain; | 7 | 643 | To Bourke's Statue | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue |
Can scarce discern the shape of mine own pain. | 9 | 1,800 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Since with plagiary you've tax'd me, | 6 | 33 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/To the same (2) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FTo%5Fthe%5Fsame%5F%282%29 |
"But, no, I'd wander up the brooks to read. | 9 | 537 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
But thou, O God, wert merciful. | 6 | 16 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Thanksgiving Poem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FThanksgiving%5FPoem |
But now their aroma was heady wine | 7 | 17 | Weird Tales/Volume 45/Issue 3/House of Life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F45%2FIssue%5F3%2FHouse%5Fof%5FLife |
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' | 12 | 4 | The First Surveyor | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFirst%5FSurveyor |
'Two years is a weary time | 6 | 117 | Alexander and Zenobia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alexander%5Fand%5FZenobia |
She looks upon the night. | 5 | 8 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/A lost love | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F1%2FA%5Flost%5Flove |
And harshly deal like an ill borrower | 7 | 638 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
And on thy mind new charms, new bloom bestow, | 9 | 293 | The feminead: or, Female genius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Ffeminead%3A%5For%2C%5FFemale%5Fgenius |
An' aldough huh haid ain't fittin' fu' to waih no golden crown, | 12 | 40 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDat%5FOl%27%5FMare%5FO%27%5FMine |
on Abeles gieldeagum sinum, | 4 | 1,172 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
The wear twenti hondrith spear-men good, | 6 | 47 | The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29 |
"Look here, ain't you got a girl?" | 7 | 18 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Confidence | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FConfidence |
'Tis Waldegrave's self, of Waldegrave come to tell!" | 8 | 421 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
Back where the bunyip stirs the ooze. | 7 | 28 | Bullocky Bill and His Old Red Team | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bullocky%5FBill%5Fand%5FHis%5FOld%5FRed%5FTeam |
Nor will do till the seas are burned, | 8 | 1,249 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
His great, dark, batlike wings, that extended | 7 | 124 | Poet Lore/Volume 28/Number 4/On Golgotha | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poet%5FLore%2FVolume%5F28%2FNumber%5F4%2FOn%5FGolgotha |
At length an aged man drew nigh,whole palsey head was grey. | 11 | 50 | Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy |
On the field we won—and lost, | 6 | 2 | Across the Lines | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Across%5Fthe%5FLines |
When Care, of wither’d brow, | 5 | 79 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281834%29 |
That I may enter in, anon. | 6 | 63 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/Noménoë | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FNom%C3%A9no%C3%AB |
The battlefield where spirits of the air, | 7 | 25 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 10/The earth to the sea | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F10%2FThe%5Fearth%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fsea |
Can we forget, although we're sundered far! | 7 | 8 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 136/Issue 1758/Farewell | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F136%2FIssue%5F1758%2FFarewell |
From the known path, and loves to lose her way, | 10 | 714 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
On S[stothard] | 2 | 1 | On S—— (You say reserve & modesty he has) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FS%E2%80%94%E2%80%94%5F%28You%5Fsay%5Freserve%5F%26%5Fmodesty%5Fhe%5Fhas%29 |
Through his fearless soul, | 4 | 41 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/A Song for the Night | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FA%5FSong%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FNight |
"One more ship garnered to Davy Jones! | 7 | 29 | Weird Tales/Volume 29/Issue 1/City in the Sea | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F29%2FIssue%5F1%2FCity%5Fin%5Fthe%5FSea |
When tears shall have no power, | 6 | 3,128 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
The fickle sunshine (in and out) Went running up and down the terrace, | 13 | 1 | 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 |
Who to-night of Mooni sings. | 5 | 54 | Mooni | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mooni |
Volatile spirits light mercurial humors ! | 6 | 9 | Ode to Messrs Green Robert Hollond and Monck Mason on their Late Balloon Expedition | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FMessrs%5FGreen%5FRobert%5FHollond%5Fand%5FMonck%5FMason%5Fon%5Ftheir%5FLate%5FBalloon%5FExpedition |
When warring abroad, divisions at home | 6 | 30 | The Riot | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRiot |
To rise from Generation free: | 5 | 4 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1826)/Songs of Experience/To Tirzah | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FInnocence%5Fand%5Fof%5FExperience%5F%281826%29%2FSongs%5Fof%5FExperience%2FTo%5FTirzah |
Ah, Nora, my Nora, the light fades away, | 8 | 3 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Nora: a Serenade | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FNora%3A%5Fa%5FSerenade |
And watch thy entries, and returnes all night, | 8 | 14 | Poems (Donne)/Elegie IV | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5F%28Donne%29%2FElegie%5FIV |
While Watson and his myrmidons | 5 | 16 | The Dauntless Three | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDauntless%5FThree |
"O sole sweet thing that God is glad to name, | 10 | 178 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Two Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FTwo%5FDreams |
I would not enter on my list of friends | 9 | 1 | Care for the Lowest | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Care%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FLowest |
He was deficient in humor, | 5 | 11 | Translations from the Chinese/A Happy Life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FA%5FHappy%5FLife |
Still and straight, | 3 | 2 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/The Precinct. Rochester | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FThe%5FPrecinct%2E%5FRochester |
O born to human trouble! also born | 7 | 297 | Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall |
This sage, who justly hated Herakles, | 6 | 755 | Balaustion's Adventure/III | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII |
Are the swift vehicles of still sweeter thoughts, | 8 | 17 | Fæsulan Idyl | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/F%C3%A6sulan%5FIdyl |
We shall not fall alone. | 5 | 47 | Ulster | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ulster |
For fees that he had earned. | 6 | 84 | Saltbush Bill, J.P. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saltbush%5FBill%2C%5FJ%2EP%2E |
Never cursed, or got disgusted, | 5 | 21 | Struck It At Last | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Struck%5FIt%5FAt%5FLast |
"Who make up a heaven of our misery." | 8 | 14 | The Chimney Sweeper (Notebook) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChimney%5FSweeper%5F%28Notebook%29 |
How drowsily it crew. | 4 | 9 | 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 |
By the side of the body for half the day | 10 | 29 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 10/A funeral feast | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F10%2FA%5Ffuneral%5Ffeast |
The third was a gift—or it looked it, | 8 | 37 | A Reminiscence of Cricket | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FReminiscence%5Fof%5FCricket |
In fancy, with a poet’s tongue, As I lay a-dreaming. | 10 | 50 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/Shady valley | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F5%2FShady%5Fvalley |
Of my identity. | 3 | 16 | Last Words (Anne Brontë) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Last%5FWords%5F%28Anne%5FBront%C3%AB%29 |
And the funeral fire should wind it,This corpse of a home that is dead. | 14 | 24 | The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 5/The Dead House | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F5%2FThe%5FDead%5FHouse |
When their blood the wine is heating,When the lambs burn on the turf, | 13 | 24 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The chase of the Siren | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FThe%5Fchase%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSiren |
That I may not, for all my will, | 8 | 83 | A Little Child's Monument/Old Scenes revisited | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FOld%5FScenes%5Frevisited |
He shakes his pow, with a loud bow-wow, | 8 | 47 | Over the River and Through the Wood | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Over%5Fthe%5FRiver%5Fand%5FThrough%5Fthe%5FWood |
in the light heart of leafy mirth | 7 | 7 | The Forest of Night: 1898-1902: The Twilight of Disquietude: 36 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5Fof%5FNight%3A%5F1898%2D1902%3A%5FThe%5FTwilight%5Fof%5FDisquietude%3A%5F36 |
My themes an endless alphabet do find. | 7 | 39 | St. Peter's Complaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint |
We two alone, our hearts surcharged with bliss, | 8 | 19 | Poems of Experience/At Bay | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FAt%5FBay |
Time has made conquest of so many things | 8 | 1 | Poems of Experience/Time's Defeat | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FTime%27s%5FDefeat |
These are all that now are left. | 7 | 10 | The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/Cupid and Swallows Flying from Winter | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FCupid%5Fand%5FSwallows%5FFlying%5Ffrom%5FWinter |
Half-way unto the end--the week's high noon. | 7 | 23 | Poems of Cheer/Poems of the Week | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FPoems%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWeek |
He rode the big black horse, the Turk, | 8 | 1,023 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone; | 7 | 12 | The Good-Morrow | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGood%2DMorrow |
When no voice is on the gale, When the rose is weeping; | 12 | 6 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1821/Stanzas—When should lovers breathe their vows? | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1821%2FStanzas%E2%80%94When%5Fshould%5Flovers%5Fbreathe%5Ftheir%5Fvows%3F |
The sunshine falls, the wild-bird calls, Across the slopes of Epping; | 11 | 39 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1697/King Henry’s Hunt | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1697%2FKing%5FHenry%E2%80%99s%5FHunt |
Just to be where Mooni is? | 6 | 117 | Mooni | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mooni |
And cold rain, with ceaseless pouring, | 6 | 31 | Gloomily the Clouds | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gloomily%5Fthe%5FClouds |
He sang in scrubbing, for he had done with fear-- | 10 | 1,546 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
Upon his big-boned savage black, | 5 | 307 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
'Simmon beer is moughty sweet; | 5 | 12 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Preference | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FPreference |
Almost upon the western waveRested the broad bright Sun; | 9 | 84 | Lyrical Ballads (1798)/The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical%5FBallads%5F%281798%29%2FThe%5FRime%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAncyent%5FMarinere |
And screeching of the slain. | 5 | 287 | 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 |
Heathen virtues e'en are gone, | 5 | 75 | Pro Patria Cuncta et Facere et Ferre Parati | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pro%5FPatria%5FCuncta%5Fet%5FFacere%5Fet%5FFerre%5FParati |
Then he brings and sets a chair, | 7 | 9 | A Little Child's Monument/Music and the Child | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FMusic%5Fand%5Fthe%5FChild |
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