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For all nature's charms in this world of ours,'Tis little or naught you care, | 14 | 7 | The Old Leaven | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FLeaven |
In the tree roots, and all the sacred flocks | 9 | 67 | The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/Anashuya and Vijaya | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FAnashuya%5Fand%5FVijaya |
It ain't a game that grows on us -- there's lots of better fun | 14 | 19 | Johnny Boer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Johnny%5FBoer |
The gentle speech, the balm for all that his vexed soul endures, | 12 | 140 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Virginia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FVirginia |
And the rivers ran down to the sea; | 8 | 45 | The Book of American Negro Poetry/The Creation | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBook%5Fof%5FAmerican%5FNegro%5FPoetry%2FThe%5FCreation |
Had melted all kiandra's snow | 5 | 31 | A Mountain Station | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FMountain%5FStation |
For he thought there was surely a looking-glass there, | 9 | 32 | The Devil's Walk | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDevil%27s%5FWalk |
Whence eev'n now the tumult of loud Mirth | 8 | 207 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
Of your cheerful | 3 | 16 | Stone/More tender than tender | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stone%2FMore%5Ftender%5Fthan%5Ftender |
'Twould scarce go down, tho' made of Cream; | 8 | 136 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
The highest point that I can aspire to; | 8 | 96 | The Soul Of A Century/Donatello, A Legend | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FDonatello%2C%5FA%5FLegend |
When early youth my mazy wanderings led, | 7 | 6 | Canzoniere/Poem I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Canzoniere%2FPoem%5FI |
Gay with the cup of full prosperity, | 7 | 46 | Poems Sigourney 1827/Wyllys' Hill and the Charter Oak | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FWyllys%27%5FHill%5Fand%5Fthe%5FCharter%5FOak |
I see her rise 'neath the star-set skies. | 8 | 3 | The Mermaid (Westermann) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMermaid%5F%28Westermann%29 |
Fu' to hyeah dis cryin', | 5 | 8 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Whip-Poor-Will and Katy-Did | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FWhip%2DPoor%2DWill%5Fand%5FKaty%2DDid |
And dwell up on its beauty, and its dyes | 9 | 4 | Poems of Cheer/The Past | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FThe%5FPast |
What seemed an idol hymn, now breathes of Thee, | 9 | 1,279 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
But in thy presence ever blest, | 6 | 17 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Hymn (1) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FHymn%5F%281%29 |
"He'll be steady enough when we finish the graft | 9 | 35 | Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now? | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%27s%5FRiding%5FOld%5FHarlequin%5FNow%3F |
For him, she 'd labour'd long, had borne | 8 | 29 | A Selection of Original Songs, Scraps, Etc., by Ned Farmer/The Blind Boy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSelection%5Fof%5FOriginal%5FSongs%2C%5FScraps%2C%5FEtc%2E%2C%5Fby%5FNed%5FFarmer%2FThe%5FBlind%5FBoy |
Of world-deep mystery | 3 | 34 | The Night Forest | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNight%5FForest |
Like the blissful moments past, | 5 | 46 | Revelation (Lovecraft) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Revelation%5F%28Lovecraft%29 |
Only a little child!Who sleeps upon God's heart! | 8 | 24 | A Little Child's Monument/Only a Little Child | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FOnly%5Fa%5FLittle%5FChild |
For endless ages to embrace. | 5 | 4,380 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
My noble friends, my comrades, one and all. | 8 | 162 | The Soul Of A Century/T. Pomponius Atticus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FT%2E%5FPomponius%5FAtticus |
Look'd far more glorious than the rest: | 7 | 239 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
He looked up to her lattice with pleasure in his eye, | 11 | 13 | The Pearl/Volume 18/The Novice | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPearl%2FVolume%5F18%2FThe%5FNovice |
Thither that summer succeeding came Adam and Arthur to see him | 11 | 133 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/9 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F9 |
Upon that coast, am giv'n up for a slave. | 9 | 408 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Was not more level than the sea, | 7 | 152 | 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 |
Connected with women and wine. | 5 | 28 | In re a Gentleman, One | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fre%5Fa%5FGentleman%2C%5FOne |
It is no little thing this road to know. | 9 | 9 | Weird Tales/Volume 46/Issue 3/Western Highway | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F46%2FIssue%5F3%2FWestern%5FHighway |
With vulgar sport she now combines | 6 | 22 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Ballade | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FBallade |
And lift it once to light!In fear, in pain, | 9 | 92 | 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 |
And stared at hounds and at the valley. | 8 | 944 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
O spirit blest! | 3 | 103 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281834%29 |
These caterwaulings of the effeminate heart, | 6 | 625 | 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 |
If thou behold me from thy bowers | 7 | 13 | A Little Child's Monument/At his Grave | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FAt%5Fhis%5FGrave |
And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise or set, | 11 | 7 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1686/Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1686%2FSong |
Thence to bring haply knowledge fraught with death! | 8 | 1,225 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
In thy good time, the wrongs of those who know | 10 | 52 | Hymn To Death | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5FTo%5FDeath |
The funeral evergreens entwine, | 4 | 6,095 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Of common sense. What are your gallipots | 7 | 20 | The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 6/Nature and the Philosopher | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F6%2FNature%5Fand%5Fthe%5FPhilosopher |
How lavish in thy luxury! how fair! | 7 | 10 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Colgong on the Ganges | 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%2FColgong%5Fon%5Fthe%5FGanges |
Not earth --- that's past --- but heaven or me. | 10 | 673 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
He often said that he was glad | 7 | 151 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1904) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FReading%5FGaol%5F%281904%29 |
But never a word to me.” | 6 | 29 | Graih my Chree | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Graih%5Fmy%5FChree |
Can thy heart roam? | 4 | 48 | National Lyrics, and Songs for Music/The Sisters | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/National%5FLyrics%2C%5Fand%5FSongs%5Ffor%5FMusic%2FThe%5FSisters |
For ye beheld my infant passion rise, | 7 | 5 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XVI | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXVI |
To keep the garden from dismay, | 6 | 427 | A Song to David | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid |
He stops with awe—the list’ner’s soulHath gently passed away. | 9 | 5 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/From the German of Uhland | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F4%2FFrom%5Fthe%5FGerman%5Fof%5FUhland |
Drones his song in the perfect weather; | 7 | 10 | Poems of Cheer/All for me | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAll%5Ffor%5Fme |
And with a trembling hand describes too well | 8 | 11 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XVI | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXVI |
Strolled groups of damsels frolicksome and fair; | 7 | 25 | After a Tempest | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/After%5Fa%5FTempest |
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair! | 8 | 10 | On a Girdle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fa%5FGirdle |
If then the Saviour's promise and example | 7 | 49 | Ode (1852) (Sargent) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5F%281852%29%5F%28Sargent%29 |
A superstitious and monastic course: | 5 | 118 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
Now to dull Remorse's cruel | 5 | 96 | The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Holland-Verse and Prose | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFirst%5FHalf%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSeventeenth%5FCentury%2FHolland%2DVerse%5Fand%5FProse |
Th' unconquerable strength of love! | 5 | 10 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The Deaf Schoolmaster | 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%2FThe%5FDeaf%5FSchoolmaster |
And when upon the steep ascent, | 6 | 49 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838/Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake | 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%2FRydal%5FWater%5Fand%5FGrasmere%5FLake |
First her hair touched me, then I grew to feed | 10 | 329 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Two Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FTwo%5FDreams |
Who triumph o'er the flesh. | 5 | 491 | A Song to David | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid |
Of wrath,” and he'd a bludgeon that he carried in his hand. | 12 | 32 | The Grog-an'-Grumble Steeplechase | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGrog%2Dan%27%2DGrumble%5FSteeplechase |
Dat 's de way dese women do, | 7 | 13 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Jilted | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FJilted |
A year, alas! will then have flown, To us a fleeting moment's space. | 13 | 14 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 136/Issue 1757/A Japanese Love-Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F136%2FIssue%5F1757%2FA%5FJapanese%5FLove%2DSong |
And Parvus Mariensis-- | 3 | 108 | The Battle of the Pons Trium Trojanorum | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBattle%5Fof%5Fthe%5FPons%5FTrium%5FTrojanorum |
From the lovely lady's cheek— | 5 | 53 | 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 |
Where it is—not more abundant perhaps, but—more easily met with; | 10 | 243 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/4 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F4 |
The words that long deep in his heart had trembled | 10 | 25 | Poems of Cheer/Five Kisses | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FFive%5FKisses |
But hold; there runs a common story | 7 | 89 | The Works of Henry Fielding/Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, Modernised In Burlesque Verse | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FPart%5Fof%5FJuvenal%27s%5FSixth%5FSatire%2C%5FModernised%5FIn%5FBurlesque%5FVerse |
And let the bedclothes, for a mortcloth, drop | 8 | 91 | 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 |
Stood and waited like a statue while I scrambled on its back. | 12 | 52 | The Open Steeplechase | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOpen%5FSteeplechase |
The old man bent his weary head; | 7 | 13 | The Old Wife and the New | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FWife%5Fand%5Fthe%5FNew |
'Twas then when Prodigies were grown | 6 | 19 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
And languid limbs their gladsome strength regain; | 7 | 4 | Addressed to My Brother | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Addressed%5Fto%5FMy%5FBrother |
It still is fierce and will not purr; | 8 | 122 | St. John's Eve (Kochanowski) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29 |
How proud a thing to fight with wind and wave! | 10 | 11 | Where lies the land to which the ship would go? | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Where%5Flies%5Fthe%5Fland%5Fto%5Fwhich%5Fthe%5Fship%5Fwould%5Fgo%3F |
Alas! by different steps and ways | 6 | 12 | Wholesale Critic and Hop-Merchant | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wholesale%5FCritic%5Fand%5FHop%2DMerchant |
Pure her young heart,--but yours,--ah, you find | 7 | 35 | The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 5/By the Dead | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F5%2FBy%5Fthe%5FDead |
Down through the ages to the present day. | 8 | 3 | Ode on the Stability of the British Empire | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fon%5Fthe%5FStability%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBritish%5FEmpire |
"Since the first human eyes saw the first timid stars break through heaven, and shine, | 15 | 1 | The Last Bullet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLast%5FBullet |
I delved in each forgotten mind, | 6 | 49 | The Star-Treader | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStar%2DTreader |
The valley where, with playmates true, | 6 | 23 | Man—Woman | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Man%E2%80%94Woman |
Where thy glad soul from earth was purified; | 8 | 347 | 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 man to man with a gasp for breath | 9 | 1,321 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
Old Mother Hubbard. | 3 | 11 | The Crooked Man And Other Rhymes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCrooked%5FMan%5FAnd%5FOther%5FRhymes |
In clomping off;—and scared the outer night, | 7 | 11 | Mountain Interval/An Old Man's Winter Night | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FAn%5FOld%5FMan%27s%5FWinter%5FNight |
And aguish east, till time shall have transform'd | 8 | 772 | 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 |
In haste they girded up their gowns, | 7 | 162 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius |
You complain of the woman for roving from one to another: | 11 | 20 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Translations from Goethe | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FTranslations%5Ffrom%5FGoethe |
While all my heart was hung with sorrow’s sable. | 9 | 2,094 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
Thou well may'st crave him for the sweetness' sake. | 9 | 20 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 136/Issue 1763/Miserere | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F136%2FIssue%5F1763%2FMiserere |
O spirit of sea-going currents! — thou, being | 8 | 49 | Narrara Creek | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrara%5FCreek |
With their dim legends blend thy hallow'd name. | 8 | 12 | Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Felicia Hemans | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zinzendorff%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FFelicia%5FHemans |
The sloping down with patches of sweet clover,The sullen surge upon the shore beneath, | 14 | 18 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/A modern idyll | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FA%5Fmodern%5Fidyll |
And sought the dreadful fields of Ilium— | 7 | 36 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3813/The Packer's Plaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3813%2FThe%5FPacker%27s%5FPlaint |
Flash'd phosphor and sharp sparks, without one cooling tear. | 9 | 150 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
A double key, which opens to the heart, | 8 | 1,164 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
We may not, all too late, begin | 7 | 3,864 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Now, upon their paths of lights, | 6 | 17 | Serenade (Cornwall) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Serenade%5F%28Cornwall%29 |
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