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So borough towns, election brought on, | 6 | 33 | The Works of Henry Fielding/The Queen of Beauty, t'other day | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FThe%5FQueen%5Fof%5FBeauty%2C%5Ft%27other%5Fday |
And purge me from all heresies of thought and speech and pen | 12 | 34 | A Pilgrim's Way | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FPilgrim%27s%5FWay |
The wilful heart be fain to own | 7 | 377 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Before the dawn the warriors fly, | 6 | 7 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1718/The Capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1718%2FThe%5FCapture%5Fof%5FJerusalem%5Fby%5Fthe%5FChaldeans |
'Tis criminal to leave a sinking state, | 7 | 478 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
Unimpeded, keen, golden, and crystalline, | 5 | 118 | Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems/A Vision of the Sea | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FUnbound%3B%5Fa%5Flyrical%5Fdrama%5Fin%5Ffour%5Facts%5Fwith%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FA%5FVision%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSea |
And from them draw the vision of their home. | 9 | 56 | An American to Mother England | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAmerican%5Fto%5FMother%5FEngland |
And if I chose a part of sin, | 8 | 21 | To My Sister (Gordon poem) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FMy%5FSister%5F%28Gordon%5Fpoem%29 |
Lies ever through Duty's hard way. | 6 | 34 | Poems of Cheer/Retrospection | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FRetrospection |
Around each pure domestic shrine | 5 | 2,080 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
I give the first watch of the night | 8 | 23 | Voices of the Night/The Light of Stars | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FThe%5FLight%5Fof%5FStars |
And with the fervor of a lip unused | 8 | 13 | The Declaration | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDeclaration |
Attempts no task it cannot well fulfil, | 7 | 280 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
I burn men with my eyes. | 6 | 10 | A Roman Lady | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FRoman%5FLady |
While the gods of Air crowd heaven’s aisles, | 8 | 45 | Poet Lore/Volume 27/Number 1/The Golden Plover | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poet%5FLore%2FVolume%5F27%2FNumber%5F1%2FThe%5FGolden%5FPlover |
It drove home, and no time was allowed to the crowd that was driven. | 14 | 57 | The City of Brass | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCity%5Fof%5FBrass |
I' the guest; or knowing it, was ignorant | 8 | 805 | Balaustion's Adventure/III | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII |
The worlds revolve like ancient women | 6 | 56 | Prufrock and Other Observations/Preludes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPreludes |
O blest proficiency ! surpassing all | 6 | 99 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
Up de t'ings in almanacs. | 5 | 4 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Foolin' Wid De Seasons | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FFoolin%27%5FWid%5FDe%5FSeasons |
And all this uniform, uncolour'd scene, | 6 | 177 | The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 6 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F6 |
Above it a few red stars | 6 | 6 | Finis (Smith) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Finis%5F%28Smith%29 |
Seemed fair though pale. The humble violet, | 7 | 67 | The Twelve Months: A New Year's Dream | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTwelve%5FMonths%3A%5FA%5FNew%5FYear%27s%5FDream |
“Who comes forth to the Judgment, | 6 | 49 | The Woman at the Washtub | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWoman%5Fat%5Fthe%5FWashtub |
For all thy rankling doubts so sore, | 7 | 4,446 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
I could not rise from my dark dungeon floor, | 9 | 19 | The Captive's Dream | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCaptive%27s%5FDream |
Combat is honour, slaughter is but savage: Murder is yours—ye combat now no more! | 14 | 56 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/The ship of mail | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FThe%5Fship%5Fof%5Fmail |
She heard the men's half-whisper'd mode of praising, | 8 | 664 | Beppo (Lord Byron) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29 |
Rubbing against all people, high and low, | 7 | 2,349 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
The glittering of the blue waves into glint; | 8 | 260 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
þæt wæs se mæraMelchisedec, | 4 | 2,522 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
So Stella's heart finding what power Love brings, | 8 | 399 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
I'll thank thee when approaching death | 6 | 17 | Thorp Green | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thorp%5FGreen |
Lifde siððanand lissa breac | 4 | 1,410 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Not doubtfully I augur from the past | 7 | 285 | Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall |
Through paths, and turnings oft'n trod by day, | 8 | 527 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
And waving in a dusky dragon light | 7 | 7 | Babel (Howard) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Babel%5F%28Howard%29 |
And thro' the Skies such Flashes hurl'd, | 7 | 901 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
But dancin' times an' spahkin' | 5 | 15 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Christmas Folksong | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FChristmas%5FFolksong |
Riding down the road at evening when the wind was on the sea, | 13 | 17 | Stirring Science Stories/February 1941/Always Comes Evening | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stirring%5FScience%5FStories%2FFebruary%5F1941%2FAlways%5FComes%5FEvening |
That it availeth much to pray. | 6 | 12 | Poems of Cheer/Prayer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FPrayer |
Through all the Alban villages | 5 | 18 | Lays of Ancient Rome/The Prophecy of Capys | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FThe%5FProphecy%5Fof%5FCapys |
(to the distance) from the earth to the moon. | 9 | 84 | The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Heavenly Kingdom | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FHeavenly%5FKingdom |
Watching for thee, the lover's ardent eyes | 7 | 5 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet LXXII | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2C%5FThe%5FSecond%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLXXII |
Licking their Lips, in clusters stood, | 6 | 378 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
Courage attemper'd and refined by thought; | 6 | 206 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
His horse, wild-eyed with some unusual fright, | 7 | 303 | Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme |
So, when Henry Edward Kater | 5 | 19 | Who is Kater Anyhow? | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%5Fis%5FKater%5FAnyhow%3F |
Bread and water — nothing more | 6 | 8 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1627/The Praise of Poverty | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F126%2FIssue%5F1627%2FThe%5FPraise%5Fof%5FPoverty |
Just there the thicker boughs gave way, | 7 | 65 | Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Literary Souvenir, 1825/Christine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FSouvenir%2C%5F1825%2FChristine |
The heart has sent its fire up to the brain, | 10 | 21 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/A Maniac visited by his Family in confinement | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FA%5FManiac%5Fvisited%5Fby%5Fhis%5FFamily%5Fin%5Fconfinement |
Answered the Piper, indeed!—Nay, truly, said Hobbes, interposing, | 8 | 209 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/3 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F3 |
Then Cruelty knits a snare, | 5 | 7 | Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1826)/Songs of Experience/The Human Abstract | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FInnocence%5Fand%5Fof%5FExperience%5F%281826%29%2FSongs%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FHuman%5FAbstract |
Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears,Hither I come to seek the spring, | 13 | 1 | Twickenham Garden | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Twickenham%5FGarden |
The golden hours flitted by In mirth and loving revelry. | 10 | 8 | 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 |
With his ear to the keyhole was listenin'; | 8 | 14 | A Bush Christening | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBush%5FChristening |
I see the pluméd horsemen; | 5 | 451 | 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 |
On someone else's heart's blood all their days, | 8 | 11 | Weird Tales/Volume 26/Issue 3/Vampires | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F26%2FIssue%5F3%2FVampires |
As the fountains of flame shoot higher : | 8 | 62 | Alice Ayres (Blake) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%5FAyres%5F%28Blake%29 |
Yet at Bellagio I find no trace, no sort of remembrance. | 11 | 43 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto IV | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FIV |
To the dancers dancing in tune; | 6 | 18 | Song from Maud | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Ffrom%5FMaud |
There's my saddle when a rover—That's the bridle hanging up, | 10 | 5 | How We Won the Ribbon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FWe%5FWon%5Fthe%5FRibbon |
Lived on her eyes, unspeaking what lacked not articulate speaking; | 10 | 118 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/4 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F4 |
Is thy reign so quickly ended? Canst thou, then, no longer stay? | 12 | 2 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 130/Issue 1685/To Summer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F130%2FIssue%5F1685%2FTo%5FSummer |
And fluctuant as a veil, | 5 | 5 | The Summer Moon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSummer%5FMoon |
Nobody only the eyes of brown, | 6 | 9 | Maurine And Other Poems/Over the Banisters | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FOver%5Fthe%5FBanisters |
I hid from Him, and under running laughter. | 8 | 5 | The Hound of Heaven | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHound%5Fof%5FHeaven |
As we two roamed, or sat and talked together. | 9 | 274 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
Slow at the end of his robust array, | 8 | 89 | The Death of Nicou | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDeath%5Fof%5FNicou |
Look to the guide who can never fail: | 8 | 28 | Pocahontas and Other Poems (New York)/"Jesus of Nazareth passes by" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pocahontas%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%5F%28New%5FYork%29%2F%22Jesus%5Fof%5FNazareth%5Fpasses%5Fby%22 |
I do not ask from history a record of thy fame, | 11 | 3 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The City of Delhi | 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%5FCity%5Fof%5FDelhi |
sun, under the insufficient | 4 | 40 | O Distinct | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/O%5FDistinct |
I'd say—"I used to know his father well;Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap." | 15 | 4 | Counter-Attack and Other Poems/Base Details | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Counter%2DAttack%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FBase%5FDetails |
Clothing with higher life the Being of the Storm. | 9 | 124 | A Storm in the Mountains | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FStorm%5Fin%5Fthe%5FMountains |
Spectre? Admetos had not made his guest | 7 | 127 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
Love looses lucid waters, and they sing; | 7 | 129 | A Little Child's Monument/De Profundis | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FDe%5FProfundis |
Men heard the music and men felt the thrill. | 9 | 36 | Poems of Experience/Read at the Benefit of Clara Morris | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FRead%5Fat%5Fthe%5FBenefit%5Fof%5FClara%5FMorris |
Watch their woe on wingèd balms | 6 | 7 | The Song of Aviol | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSong%5Fof%5FAviol |
For Adam's whole poſterity, | 4 | 99 | Wife of Beith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith |
I only ask, to make mine arms prevail, | 8 | 15 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Warrior's Prayer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FWarrior%27s%5FPrayer |
The dead one?" | 3 | 34 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
What price they cost — they please the better. Italian vines, and Spanish sheep. [27] | 15 | 226 | 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 |
Too lenient for the crime by half." | 7 | 32 | Love and Folly (Bryant) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love%5Fand%5FFolly%5F%28Bryant%29 |
Called common sense: and no high wit | 7 | 641 | 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 |
So very anxious, clever, fine, and jealous, | 7 | 744 | Beppo (Lord Byron) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29 |
Like the ghost of a daisy dropped out of the sky, | 11 | 30 | The Old Swimmin' Hole | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FSwimmin%27%5FHole |
In strains of gratitude, be praises hung, | 7 | 278 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
The eve advanc'd, the sun declin'd,30 BALL to the booby-hutch[3] was join'd, | 12 | 26 | Citizen and the Red Lion of Brenton | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Citizen%5Fand%5Fthe%5FRed%5FLion%5Fof%5FBrenton |
’Neath chill moon and raging sun; | 6 | 97 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/Damsel John | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FDamsel%5FJohn |
No other words, but words of love—no other thought but Love. | 11 | 45 | The Mystic Trumpeter | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMystic%5FTrumpeter |
To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say? | 8 | 2 | Woman's Constancy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman%27s%5FConstancy |
That which her slender waist confined | 6 | 1 | On a Girdle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fa%5FGirdle |
To the music's fading calls | 5 | 34 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Corn-song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FCorn%2Dsong |
Adorn the board, invite the guest; | 6 | 121 | 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 |
There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess, | 10 | 2 | The New Vestments | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNew%5FVestments |
So good to watch or share; but when men count | 10 | 258 | Biography (Masefield) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Biography%5F%28Masefield%29 |
Let someone nip to Biddy Price's, | 6 | 486 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Was gone--and Gertrude climb'd a widow'd father's knee. | 8 | 91 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
How Tomboy and Vanity caused much profanity, | 7 | 30 | Jack's Last Muster | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jack%27s%5FLast%5FMuster |
The clown announced a scheme they had | 7 | 5 | When Dacey Rode the Mule | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/When%5FDacey%5FRode%5Fthe%5FMule |
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