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And so unsullied was the marble hue, | 7 | 380 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
And day-long, night-long, the cool and pleasant breeze | 8 | 3 | Trade Winds | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Trade%5FWinds |
Not on wires, with no word written,Thou hadst trod thine airy track, | 12 | 13 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3820/Ode to the Spirit of Wireless Victory | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3820%2FOde%5Fto%5Fthe%5FSpirit%5Fof%5FWireless%5FVictory |
They demi-deify and fume him so, | 6 | 266 | 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 |
The Fathers of the City, | 5 | 142 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius |
If I approve, "Commend it to the stage." | 8 | 58 | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Fto%5FDr%5FArbuthnot |
Rose the thin bellying strips of leaping sail. | 8 | 1,666 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
And undisplaced upon my mind I view | 7 | 189 | Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall |
With soft repentant moan 5 | 5 | 6 | Morning (Blake) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morning%5F%28Blake%29 |
Into thy frame a voice, a sweet, and low, | 9 | 62 | Records of Woman: with Other Poems/Properzia Rossi | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Records%5Fof%5FWoman%3A%5Fwith%5FOther%5FPoems%2FProperzia%5FRossi |
The bearded fiddler doses near, | 5 | 67 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/The hostelry | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F5%2FThe%5Fhostelry |
As then, Thy wonder-working hand, | 5 | 222 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Comes on, the herald of fair Flora's train; | 8 | 248 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
That, spring by spring, doth nobler be, | 7 | 118 | Poems of Sidney Lanier/The Symphony | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FThe%5FSymphony |
'Those sparkling eyes, that blessed me so, | 7 | 49 | Mirth And Mourning | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mirth%5FAnd%5FMourning |
And along the road a baseless abyss,Gaping as when army cannons roar. | 12 | 99 | Tyrolean Elegies | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tyrolean%5FElegies |
Is it not much that I may worship Him, | 9 | 63 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
Of whom brave Chaucer mention makes: | 6 | 2 | Wife of Beith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith |
Pride—sense of wrong—ay, the frail heart is bound | 8 | 327 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
A God in anger, a self-chosen grave? | 7 | 1,185 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Brought his murdered brother's moan. | 5 | 12 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/Restormel Castle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1832%2FRestormel%5FCastle |
When the babe's kiss no sense of pleasure yields | 9 | 1,491 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
For drowsy quiet holds her reign; | 6 | 8 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Drowsy Day | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FDrowsy%5FDay |
I's a youngstah ergin in de mi'st o' my sin; | 10 | 19 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Itching Heels | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FItching%5FHeels |
Such witness yield; a monarch from his throne | 8 | 6,058 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
The lark flew up as she passed along, | 8 | 21 | Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Literary Souvenir, 1825/The Decision of the Flower | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FSouvenir%2C%5F1825%2FThe%5FDecision%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFlower |
As sacred things, far from all danger's show. | 8 | 332 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
To win him to himself and Thee, | 7 | 4,964 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
But where we late were hunted, there | 7 | 6 | Song (Brontë, "We know where deepest lies the snow") | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5F%28Bront%C3%AB%2C%5F%22We%5Fknow%5Fwhere%5Fdeepest%5Flies%5Fthe%5Fsnow%22%29 |
A latter bullet may o'ertake, the powder being more. | 9 | 14 | The Dissolution | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDissolution |
But a fool must follow his natural bent | 8 | 16 | The Vampire (Kipling) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FVampire%5F%28Kipling%29 |
When dreams and hopes forsake | 5 | 63 | The Masque of the Foresaken Gods | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMasque%5Fof%5Fthe%5FForesaken%5FGods |
And left inclines inclining to a fault.What is this pedantry? An empty bubble. | 13 | 2 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3823/Twilight in Regent's Park | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3823%2FTwilight%5Fin%5FRegent%27s%5FPark |
Aloft their cone-fringed branches threw:And tender blossoms gently cast | 9 | 7 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/The spirit of the vanished island | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FThe%5Fspirit%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fvanished%5Fisland |
Stand out, my blue-eyed prophet!—thou, to whomThe earliest world-day light that ever flowed, | 13 | 1,085 | Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows |
With a stone to keep them down, | 7 | 18 | Cares | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cares |
WAS THIS the face that launch'd a thousand ships, | 9 | 1 | The Face That Launch'd a Thousand Ships | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFace%5FThat%5FLaunch%27d%5Fa%5FThousand%5FShips |
Into the heated atmosphere, hungrily is seeping | 7 | 1 | The Soul Of A Century/An autumn evening | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FAn%5Fautumn%5Fevening |
How I'se gwine to whup you, my! 't 'ill be a sin! | 12 | 13 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Curiosity | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FCuriosity |
In deep depression sunk, the enfeebled mind | 7 | 5 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XXXIX | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXXXIX |
It was most proud, however self might doubt, | 8 | 1,005 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
He drew her swiftly from a memory stored. | 8 | 819 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
Knowing the fairy knock, to bask within her beams. | 9 | 25 | The Yellow Book/Volume 1/Tree-Worship | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYellow%5FBook%2FVolume%5F1%2FTree%2DWorship |
beheafdod healdend ure." Hi ða hreowigmode | 6 | 289 | Poem of Judith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJudith |
Long lost in wet morass and shadowed glen. | 8 | 4 | Weird Tales/Volume 10/Issue 2/The Swamp | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F10%2FIssue%5F2%2FThe%5FSwamp |
To close the weary eye and hush the parting breath? | 10 | 994 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Including me. He thinks I’ll be all right | 8 | 46 | North of Boston/A Servant to Servants | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FA%5FServant%5Fto%5FServants |
The sweetest strain, the wildest wind, | 6 | 69 | Verses by Lady Geralda | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5Fby%5FLady%5FGeralda |
More men came up, the fresh hands gave them power, | 10 | 1,272 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
A span deep in the breast. | 6 | 390 | 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 |
Their batteries at rising works which claim | 7 | 2,625 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
Then thou and I will live within one house, | 9 | 131 | Dora (Tennyson, 1887) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dora%5F%28Tennyson%2C%5F1887%29 |
So nice the master's touch, so great his care, | 9 | 655 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
Within my happy heart. | 4 | 24 | Buffalo Creek | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Buffalo%5FCreek |
with my own laws, with my own intellect, | 8 | 40 | The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FFall%5Fand%5FExpulsion%5Ffrom%5FParadise |
Just writes to make his barrenness appear, | 7 | 181 | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Fto%5FDr%5FArbuthnot |
"Give Ireland Liberty!" | 3 | 24 | Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta/Liberty to Ireland | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memoirs%5Fof%5FAnne%5FC%2E%5FL%2E%5FBotta%2FLiberty%5Fto%5FIreland |
I till my ground and prune my trees. | 8 | 14 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Poet and His Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FPoet%5Fand%5FHis%5FSong |
That comes not, save when in the dust is laid | 10 | 5 | The New Birth (Very) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNew%5FBirth%5F%28Very%29 |
Held in some joys to alternate with pain, | 8 | 39 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To The South | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5FThe%5FSouth |
And looked about. Then in confusion rose | 7 | 1,768 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
For her sweet child’s, and for my own, I take | 10 | 3,072 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
Courtiers, their monarch ever in their view, | 7 | 1,105 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
Life is a lie that cuts like a knife | 9 | 37 | Surrender (Howard) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Surrender%5F%28Howard%29 |
The humble wishes of a friend: | 6 | 3 | 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 |
A faithful barrier, not o'erleap'd with ease | 7 | 681 | 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 |
And marble's language, Latin pure, discreet, | 6 | 100 | 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 |
Since they have met Him face to face, And know as they are known. | 14 | 8 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 132/Issue 1699/After Life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F132%2FIssue%5F1699%2FAfter%5FLife |
By slow degrees, a calm, divinely still, | 7 | 200 | 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 |
The Jugginses we seemed to be; | 6 | 22 | An Idyll of Dandaloo | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FIdyll%5Fof%5FDandaloo |
Which will come, through the straights and all between the mountains, | 11 | 119 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/7 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F7 |
All under the willow-tree. | 4 | 30 | Song from Aella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Ffrom%5FAella |
Some of the rafters are standing still; | 7 | 2 | Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Under%5Fthe%5FShadow%5Fof%5FKiley%27s%5FHill |
To do a Brother's part. | 5 | 574 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
And you fancy, when once you have won her,How pretty she’ll look in your brougham. | 15 | 23 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/Night and morning | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F1%2FNight%5Fand%5Fmorning |
bitre on breostum,þæs wit begra ær | 6 | 963 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
On a new hive, expecting tales of wonder | 8 | 29 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/Nach zehn Jahren (After ten years) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FNach%5Fzehn%5FJahren%5F%28After%5Ften%5Fyears%29 |
Folks is go'gin' me wid goodies, an' dey 's treatin' me wid caih, | 13 | 13 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Soliloquy Of A Turkey | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FSoliloquy%5FOf%5FA%5FTurkey |
With pallid brow and wasted frame, | 6 | 64 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834/A Legend of Teignmouth | 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%2FA%5FLegend%5Fof%5FTeignmouth |
And stand on the Golden Shore | 6 | 30 | The Lost Drink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLost%5FDrink |
Who laugh'd till his eyes dropped brine, | 7 | 17 | King Death | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/King%5FDeath |
Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand | 8 | 101 | The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 3/Ode Upon Liberty | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAbraham%5FCowley%2FVolume%5F3%2FOde%5FUpon%5FLiberty |
Nor yet forgot to love? | 5 | 4 | Upon a Venerable Rival | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Upon%5Fa%5FVenerable%5FRival |
They went with songs to the battle, they were young, | 10 | 9 | The Times/1914/Arts/For the Fallen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTimes%2F1914%2FArts%2FFor%5Fthe%5FFallen |
A wind swept the river, and flung back the pall, | 10 | 51 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833/A Legend of Tintagel Castle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1833%2FA%5FLegend%5Fof%5FTintagel%5FCastle |
And Madeline--well, | 2 | 17 | Poems of Cheer/A Reminiscence | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FA%5FReminiscence |
And sometimes overwhelming sense of pain. | 6 | 28 | Poems of Cheer/Nothing But Stones | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FNothing%5FBut%5FStones |
It is the feeblest jingle yet. | 6 | 6 | A Triolet (Paterson) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FTriolet%5F%28Paterson%29 |
Yet in his voice lies feeling, | 6 | 20 | Poems of Experience/The London "Bobby" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FLondon%5F%22Bobby%22 |
Where the prospect opens wide, | 5 | 115 | Grongar Hill (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grongar%5FHill%5F%28unsourced%29 |
A prodigal Nature and a niggard Doom | 7 | 11 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1829) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281829%29 |
And the aged Hobden answered: 'I remember as a lad | 10 | 5 | A Diversity of Creatures/The Land | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDiversity%5Fof%5FCreatures%2FThe%5FLand |
And whispered haltingly, their grievous news | 6 | 234 | The Soul Of A Century/King Abgar | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FKing%5FAbgar |
Some little smiles to take the place of grief. | 9 | 41 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To The South | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5FThe%5FSouth |
Thou'rt with the zephyrs low, | 5 | 25 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/Spirit of Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FSpirit%5Fof%5FSong |
Born in full flower of the marvellous sea, | 8 | 5 | In Memoriam: John McCrae | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5FMemoriam%3A%5FJohn%5FMcCrae |
'Gainst Hope and Love and Care, | 6 | 6 | Dreams & Dust/The Tavern of Despair | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dreams%5F%26%5FDust%2FThe%5FTavern%5Fof%5FDespair |
When he breaks from the town; and none escape, | 9 | 734 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
ROSES AND PEARLS | 3 | 2 | Roses and Pearls | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Roses%5Fand%5FPearls |
Deep in each heart's undream'd, unsought recess. | 7 | 33 | The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/A Girl at her Devotions | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FA%5FGirl%5Fat%5Fher%5FDevotions |
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