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But des' keep on a-joggin' wid a little bit o' song, | 11 | 29 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Joggin' Erlong | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FJoggin%27%5FErlong |
Somewhere before I am sure, but that wasn't it; not its import; | 12 | 134 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/4 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F4 |
Don’t stop to try to now. You’ll miss your train. | 10 | 238 | North of Boston/The Self-seeker | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FSelf%2Dseeker |
Within our cities idle stand, | 5 | 157 | Song of the Future (Paterson) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFuture%5F%28Paterson%29 |
Whose outspread branches overarch the glade. | 6 | 71 | 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 |
He 's as good as the best of your dreams, | 10 | 14 | The Gipsy Praises his Horse | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGipsy%5FPraises%5Fhis%5FHorse |
While his free spirit, soaring high, | 6 | 631 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Haunts the rude masses of brick garlanded gaily with vine, | 10 | 6 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FII |
That breathe a soul into the plastic arts, | 8 | 10 | Poems of Charles Baudelaire/Beauty | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCharles%5FBaudelaire%2FBeauty |
Such as beneath the moon's soft gleam | 7 | 2,927 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
'Twas a comrade true or a foeman then, and a trusty sword well tried — | 15 | 27 | In the Days When the World Was Wide | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fthe%5FDays%5FWhen%5Fthe%5FWorld%5FWas%5FWide |
'He will see things all too plainly, | 7 | 29 | The Wander-Light | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWander%2DLight |
Whiff of a dream for a summer night. | 8 | 336 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Sword Blades and Poppy Seed | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FSword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed |
Revealed your soul to Slav and Jew: | 7 | 12 | To 'Holy' Russia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5F%27Holy%27%5FRussia |
The works of God above, below, | 6 | 888 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
The royalty of its resolve, that head | 7 | 247 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
Then he led me to his Cot,Sooth'd and pity'd all my woe; | 12 | 47 | The Sorrows of Yamba | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSorrows%5Fof%5FYamba |
My loving aid thou dost not need, | 7 | 243 | St. John's Eve (Kochanowski) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29 |
En ses divins accents. | 4 | 40 | The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 6 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFirst%5FHalf%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSeventeenth%5FCentury%2FChapter%5F6 |
A hand swings back the door of years; | 8 | 15 | The Star-Treader | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStar%2DTreader |
Full many a stranger in Walgett Town. | 7 | 30 | A Walgett Episode | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FWalgett%5FEpisode |
Yet from this weakness you suppose is due | 8 | 34 | Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Ffrom%5FMrs%2E%5FYonge%5Fto%5FHer%5FHusband |
Sharp swords are in a hundred sheaths,Strong arms to every sword, | 11 | 5 | The Queen's Court Manuscript with Other Ancient Bohemian Poems/Oldrich and Boleslaw | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FQueen%27s%5FCourt%5FManuscript%5Fwith%5FOther%5FAncient%5FBohemian%5FPoems%2FOldrich%5Fand%5FBoleslaw |
Parents tender I could boast,Husband dear, and children too. | 9 | 8 | The Sorrows of Yamba | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSorrows%5Fof%5FYamba |
And the brown ground-bird, in thy glen, | 7 | 49 | The Rivulet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRivulet |
And on its bright brief journey gather'd up | 8 | 15 | On the Death of a Young Girl | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5Fa%5FYoung%5FGirl |
And the presaging visions treasur'd in his mind. | 8 | 44 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/Joseph | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FJoseph |
And on a sudden breeze the fireWould sweep along for miles; | 11 | 22 | The Fire at Ross's Farm | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFire%5Fat%5FRoss%27s%5FFarm |
And thou wert aye a Masker bold ! | 8 | 30 | Youth and Age (Coleridge) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Youth%5Fand%5FAge%5F%28Coleridge%29 |
She sprang up the hill and she flew down the steep; | 11 | 18 | Black Bess | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black%5FBess |
I do not want to further preach, my comrades, | 9 | 147 | The Soul Of A Century/T. Pomponius Atticus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FT%2E%5FPomponius%5FAtticus |
With sombre mien, the Evening gray | 6 | 1 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Farewell to Arcady | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FFarewell%5Fto%5FArcady |
Tried in seas and wars, I ween; | 7 | 2 | The Human Tree | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHuman%5FTree |
Of age to help us.’ | 5 | 133 | Dora (Tennyson, 1887) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dora%5F%28Tennyson%2C%5F1887%29 |
Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. | 9 | 2 | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Fto%5FDr%5FArbuthnot |
And a madrigal sings to his love in her nest: | 10 | 9 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Two Songs | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTwo%5FSongs |
Hauling the rations up through ruts and mud | 8 | 7 | Two Hundred Years Later | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Two%5FHundred%5FYears%5FLater |
and looking up at our beautiful tree | 7 | 26 | Little tree | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Little%5Ftree |
What answer Beppo made to these demands | 7 | 932 | Beppo (Lord Byron) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29 |
And they made a molten image, | 6 | 611 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius |
Went home and made me hang my head. | 8 | 1,311 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Mine, spindling into longitude immense, | 5 | 11 | 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 |
Rich with celestial jewelry, | 4 | 1,621 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
But when I came to work it out, I found | 10 | 131 | The Old Huntsman and Other Poems/The Old Huntsman | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FHuntsman%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FOld%5FHuntsman |
(It stirs again, that passion brief and wild.) | 8 | 16 | Poems of Experience/At Bay | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FAt%5FBay |
Oh, Moses sot de sarpint in de wildahness | 8 | 17 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Spiritual | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FSpiritual |
And weep for sweetness of the noise thereof | 8 | 372 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/St. Dorothy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FSt%2E%5FDorothy |
An' I 've come to the conclusion | 7 | 3 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lawyers' Ways | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLawyers%27%5FWays |
Perchance has wandered in his infancy;For he, too, who lies worn on that dim bed, | 15 | 9 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1712/George Odger | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1712%2FGeorge%5FOdger |
“It makes it all the worse. You must be blind.” | 10 | 176 | North of Boston/The Housekeeper | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FHousekeeper |
One day, about the lower fall He lingered,—and his search was ended! | 12 | 33 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/The bride of an hour | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F11%2FThe%5Fbride%5Fof%5Fan%5Fhour |
With rose, mimosa, amaranth entwin'd, | 5 | 6 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XXXVII | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXXXVII |
Boil into deadly wrath and wild homicidal delusion. | 8 | 247 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FII |
gewered mid wæstme,swa hie waldend god, | 6 | 554 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
And saw pale cheek and anxious eye | 7 | 20 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833/Tomb of Mahomed Shah | 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%2FTomb%5Fof%5FMahomed%5FShah |
The phantom leader give the word, | 6 | 44 | Rio Grande's Last Race | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rio%5FGrande%27s%5FLast%5FRace |
Such calm old age as conscience pure | 7 | 5,435 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Then bounded in a boy, with clear dark eye— | 9 | 1,077 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
Now ere I slept, my prayer had been that I might see my way | 14 | 1 | Poems of Experience/Christ Crucified | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FChrist%5FCrucified |
Content to toil and fade in turn, | 7 | 23 | The Yellow Book/Volume 1/Alere Flammam | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYellow%5FBook%2FVolume%5F1%2FAlere%5FFlammam |
With hay-stacks, faggot piles, and bottle-ricks; | 6 | 35 | The Works of Henry Fielding/A Description of U-n G- | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FA%5FDescription%5Fof%5FU%2Dn%5FG%2D |
And peace, the boon fair Freedom boasts | 7 | 49 | We hail the day | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/We%5Fhail%5Fthe%5Fday |
The people in the Leger Stand cried out, "Hi, mister, hi! | 11 | 7 | Not On It | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Not%5FOn%5FIt |
Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank | 8 | 26 | Fæsulan Idyl | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/F%C3%A6sulan%5FIdyl |
The daily prayers of spotless Womanhood | 6 | 306 | The Creek of the Four Graves | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCreek%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFour%5FGraves |
Simple and homely in attire | 5 | 3 | A Fragment (Brontë) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FFragment%5F%28Bront%C3%AB%29 |
Those two came carrying wine and meat and bread, | 9 | 613 | 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 |
So saying, the children push on in affright, | 8 | 5 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/Eckart the Trusty | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F1%2FEckart%5Fthe%5FTrusty |
I too kept friendly, for he is but a fool | 10 | 94 | The Soul Of A Century/T. Pomponius Atticus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FT%2E%5FPomponius%5FAtticus |
To the best chamber usher'd, e'er admire | 7 | 62 | To a Shred of Linen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FShred%5Fof%5FLinen |
"I owe no vow to any clan, nor faith to any thing. | 12 | 28 | The Skull in the Clouds | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSkull%5Fin%5Fthe%5FClouds |
Ef dese hyeah folks will keep on fillin' | 8 | 13 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Protest | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FProtest |
I've freely endangered life and limb; Aye, perill'd my soul's salvation.MARK. | 11 | 52 | The Old Leaven | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FLeaven |
With harp of high majestic tone, | 6 | 4 | A Song to David | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid |
For Sina is across the rippling wave, | 7 | 77 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/The Song of Tigilau | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FThe%5FSong%5Fof%5FTigilau |
By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried; | 9 | 90 | Plain Tales from the Hills (headings) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plain%5FTales%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FHills%5F%28headings%29 |
And a column too hardly pressed, | 6 | 8 | The Scottish Engineer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FScottish%5FEngineer |
Thine own sweet thoughtfulness for victory's mien, | 7 | 343 | 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 the tribe which describe with a jibe the perversions of Justice – | 13 | 12 | The City of Brass | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCity%5Fof%5FBrass |
Did go, that place must needs a temple be. | 9 | 14 | A Dream of Elysium | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDream%5Fof%5FElysium |
I count this thing to be grandly true: | 8 | 6 | Gradatim (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gradatim%5F%28unsourced%29 |
For, spite of all that vaunted learning's aid, | 8 | 225 | The feminead: or, Female genius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Ffeminead%3A%5For%2C%5FFemale%5Fgenius |
Without a thought of the silent graves | 7 | 11 | Noonday Rest | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Noonday%5FRest |
She squawked and somebody turned the lights, | 7 | 17 | The Kissing of Sal Snooboo | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FKissing%5Fof%5FSal%5FSnooboo |
Fall down on his knees and cry?" | 7 | 18 | The Wreck of the Golfer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWreck%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGolfer |
Unlike December's frown this gladsome day | 6 | 1 | Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne/On the 16th December | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fby%5FFelicia%5FDorothea%5FBrowne%2FOn%5Fthe%5F16th%5FDecember |
'Twas Thine own comfortable word | 5 | 4,670 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
De times is mighty stirrin' 'mong de people up ouah way, | 11 | 1 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/How Lucy Backslid | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FHow%5FLucy%5FBackslid |
Choice gums and precious balm; | 5 | 152 | A Song to David | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid |
Shall check my steps with might. | 6 | 23 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Premonition | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FPremonition |
When all foredone with toil and wounds.Death-like he dozes among heaps of dead! | 13 | 47 | Sibylline Leaves (Coleridge)/Ode to the Departing Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sibylline%5FLeaves%5F%28Coleridge%29%2FOde%5Fto%5Fthe%5FDeparting%5FYear |
Her pearl-pale hand and the hem of her dress. | 9 | 211 | 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 |
An' it sort o' hurts my feelin's | 7 | 37 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Deacon Jones' Grievance | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDeacon%5FJones%27%5FGrievance |
—Is it, I said, a waste of loveImperishably old in pain, | 11 | 15 | The Orange Tree | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOrange%5FTree |
Or while we speak within the direful grasp | 8 | 329 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
He was the painter in that swift ship's crew, | 9 | 10 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
O my friend, O brother, a glory veiled and marred! | 10 | 9 | Astrophel and Other Poems/Threnody (2) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThrenody%5F%282%29 |
You kill that, so I'll kill you." | 7 | 663 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
In an hour they land on the Cornish strand;Lightly now (see the boat’s keel shows!), | 15 | 16 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/The Bay of the Dead | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FThe%5FBay%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDead |
Rules universal nature. Not a flow'r 240 | 7 | 239 | 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 |
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