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I was partly stunned by a log of wood | 9 | 75 | The Story of Mongrel Grey | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStory%5Fof%5FMongrel%5FGrey |
What did he get from our famed Christianity? | 8 | 35 | Only a Jockey | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Only%5Fa%5FJockey |
"A tree may dance in the white weatherOr dream in a blue gown, | 13 | 17 | The Loving Tree | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLoving%5FTree |
The picture moved above the light; | 6 | 54 | The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Spectre's Bride | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FSpectre%27s%5FBride |
Still admird by Noble minds | 5 | 26 | The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCaverns%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGrave%5FIve%5Fseen |
The bell has rung. With their riders up | 8 | 54 | Visions in the Smoke | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Visions%5Fin%5Fthe%5FSmoke |
Who envies the by-gone games of old? | 7 | 15 | Verses Inspired by my "Old Black Pipe" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5FInspired%5Fby%5Fmy%5F%22Old%5FBlack%5FPipe%22 |
Parks in which art preceptress nature weds, | 7 | 335 | Retirement (Cowper) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29 |
As thro' rain we see the sun. | 7 | 34 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Communion | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FCommunion |
What once those fond eyes said; | 6 | 22 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Valedictory Stanzas | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FValedictory%5FStanzas |
The tears that scald the cheek, | 6 | 12 | The Living Lost | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLiving%5FLost |
And woke your echoes with my artless song. | 8 | 4 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FV |
But never mind, the Welshman got it planted | 8 | 68 | North of Boston/The Black Cottage | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FBlack%5FCottage |
All my old strengths are gone. And yet I shall have to do something. | 14 | 156 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FV |
If it be so, why are we here? the world, | 10 | 698 | Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall |
Close, close in my arms I would fold you, | 9 | 39 | Poems of Passion/Delilah | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FDelilah |
As a bird's will to sing disturbed his throat | 9 | 22 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Two Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FTwo%5FDreams |
Admetos, whom Apollon made come court | 6 | 383 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
Are scorn'd and cast away as idle things; | 8 | 24 | The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/Love Nursed by Solitude | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FLove%5FNursed%5Fby%5FSolitude |
Many-toned and murmuring | 3 | 6 | A-Roving (Daley) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%2DRoving%5F%28Daley%29 |
Your friendly clubs to help 'em bury. | 7 | 948 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Come away to dream wid me, | 6 | 17 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Dreamin' Town | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDreamin%27%5FTown |
And end that I have now begun : | 8 | 4 | My Lute Awake! | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FLute%5FAwake%21 |
I want to live – to think and suffer. | 9 | 7 | Elegy 1830 (Pushkin) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegy%5F1830%5F%28Pushkin%29 |
The pensive Muse shall own thee for her mate, | 9 | 7 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet VII | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FVII |
Of music so delicate, soft, and intense, | 7 | 27 | Prometheus Unbound; a lyrical drama in four acts with other poems/The Sensitive Plant | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FUnbound%3B%5Fa%5Flyrical%5Fdrama%5Fin%5Ffour%5Facts%5Fwith%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FThe%5FSensitive%5FPlant |
In all new work that would look forth | 8 | 275 | 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 |
Is God not sitting in His ancient seat? | 8 | 8 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Mare Rubrum | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FMare%5FRubrum |
And mothers stood, with streaming eyes, | 6 | 5 | The Slave Auction | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSlave%5FAuction |
Queen of rest and meditation, Thro' thy medium I adore | 10 | 24 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/An Evening Prospect | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FAn%5FEvening%5FProspect |
Until the waves rose frothing up and hid that savage fray; | 11 | 56 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/How Thor went to fish for the Serpent Midgard | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FHow%5FThor%5Fwent%5Fto%5Ffish%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FSerpent%5FMidgard |
Don’t carry it to someone else this time. | 8 | 60 | North of Boston/Home Burial | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FHome%5FBurial |
And all the hurry to arrive, | 6 | 1,182 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
A Gem in its glitter has yet to be seen, [been; | 11 | 11 | The Far Future | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFar%5FFuture |
Ye lawless glances, freely rove; | 5 | 943 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Hark to the wild Rosanna cheering!Never droops she, while changing clime | 11 | 107 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/By the Rosanna | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F5%2FBy%5Fthe%5FRosanna |
Even as they fell, in files they lay, | 8 | 776 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim, | 6 | 125 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
The oaten reed is silenced now, the taborIs never heard within our shady groves, | 14 | 3 | 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 |
When thou wert gone. This faltering verse, which thou | 9 | 149 | Hymn To Death | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5FTo%5FDeath |
Tho keystone speech so archly done by you | 8 | 480 | To Bourke's Statue | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue |
Would'st see them thronging thy successor's gate, | 7 | 29 | The Works of Henry Fielding/Of True Greatness. An Epistle to George Dodington, Esq. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FOf%5FTrue%5FGreatness%2E%5FAn%5FEpistle%5Fto%5FGeorge%5FDodington%2C%5FEsq%2E |
You look so pale and weary. Now let me | 9 | 1,141 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
Your lips have uttered and your eyes confirmed, | 8 | 179 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Dramatic Scene | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FDramatic%5FScene |
Heard alone the wood her groans, | 6 | 17 | The Hussite Wars/John Žižka | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHussite%5FWars%2FJohn%5F%C5%BDi%C5%BEka |
Avoid cabals, the cliques of vicious clime | 7 | 437 | To Bourke's Statue | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue |
Like meat out of a butcher's shop; | 7 | 1,117 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
To know for an hour you were mine completely— | 9 | 33 | Poems of Passion/Ad Finem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FAd%5FFinem |
With love's sweet music in its chime. | 7 | 138 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Ione | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FIone |
Strong, but luxuriant virtues boldly ſhoot | 6 | 70 | Slavery, a poem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Slavery%2C%5Fa%5Fpoem |
That wins my soul to stay; | 6 | 2 | Call Me Away | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Call%5FMe%5FAway |
Tho' I may not see my guest, | 7 | 16 | A Little Child's Monument/"That they all may be One" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2F%22That%5Fthey%5Fall%5Fmay%5Fbe%5FOne%22 |
O my little child! | 4 | 9 | A Little Child's Monument/Lament | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FLament |
Won't you raise de cu'tain | 5 | 20 | 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 |
Her hands were clasped, veined, and pale as snow, | 9 | 16 | The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Scene from Tasso | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FPercy%5FBysshe%5FShelley%5F%28ed%2E%5FHutchinson%2C%5F1914%29%2FScene%5Ffrom%5FTasso |
And watched for lilies in the waves below, | 8 | 671 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
And curse the day when the bride-sleep took him. | 9 | 68 | Eden bower (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eden%5Fbower%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29 |
Again to fall, and rob Thy shrine | 7 | 739 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Under the shadow I will be, | 6 | 15 | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jesus%5FChrist%5Fthe%5FApple%5FTree |
Then most a slave, when most he seem'd to rule; | 10 | 964 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
usmívá se háj. | 3 | 4 | A Book of Czech Verse/J. Vlk | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBook%5Fof%5FCzech%5FVerse%2FJ%2E%5FVlk |
The soul that scarce (the billows are so dense) | 9 | 23 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf |
Perchance to sophist, or sage, or seer | 7 | 20 | Visions in the Smoke | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Visions%5Fin%5Fthe%5FSmoke |
Dip to tranquil shores of jasper, where the watching angel beams. | 11 | 36 | Hy-Brasil | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hy%2DBrasil |
Only look at Gaffer Grey | 5 | 1 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Once upon a time | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F3%2FOnce%5Fupon%5Fa%5Ftime |
They mingle with the orange scents, that load the sleepy breeze; | 11 | 69 | Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 14 1825/The Sicilian Captive | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Felicia%5FHemans%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5FMagazine%5FVolume%5F14%5F1825%2FThe%5FSicilian%5FCaptive |
While I am with the angels, blest and glad, | 9 | 2,914 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
With weekly, daily, hourly, libels clothed, | 6 | 441 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
Sing him this stave: | 4 | 15 | Morning and I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morning%5Fand%5FI |
Evanescent, pure, and clear, | 4 | 15 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837/Derwent Water | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1837%2FDerwent%5FWater |
Such is the powre of loue in gentle mind, | 9 | 14 | Sonnet 30 (Spencer) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonnet%5F30%5F%28Spencer%29 |
Sawā‘idu yahtazzu fawqahā al-‘alam | 4 | 47 | Humat al-Hima | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Humat%5Fal%2DHima |
But the losing of those five gallant men | 8 | 24 | Greenland Whale Fisheries | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Greenland%5FWhale%5FFisheries |
And shortly came to anchor at the cross in Spancil Hill | 11 | 4 | Spancil Hill | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Spancil%5FHill |
Ere morning in the heavens; | 5 | 139 | The Trustee's Lament | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTrustee%27s%5FLament |
The horsemen of Nomentus | 4 | 698 | 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 |
And want no adorning. | 4 | 16 | Serenade (Cornwall) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Serenade%5F%28Cornwall%29 |
Numa, and near the beating of his heart, | 8 | 10 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/Egeria | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FEgeria |
Should die and leave me sitting pen in hand | 9 | 119 | Prufrock and Other Observations/Portrait of a Lady | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPortrait%5Fof%5Fa%5FLady |
in the court, with groans and cries | 7 | 308 | Marsupial Bill | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marsupial%5FBill |
Running in little patters, gentle, sweet, | 6 | 1,406 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
That meet for moments but to part for years, | 9 | 53 | Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir, 1825/The Grave of Körner | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FFelicia%5FHemans%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FSouvenir%2C%5F1825%2FThe%5FGrave%5Fof%5FK%C3%B6rner |
Small need to loose the girth; | 6 | 52 | Alone (Essex Evans) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alone%5F%28Essex%5FEvans%29 |
Now flinging down an empire, now a flower. | 8 | 12 | Landon in The New Monthly 1837/Necessity | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1837%2FNecessity |
Their despairing anthem rolls, | 4 | 28 | Weird Tales/Volume 9/Issue 6/Ghost Lore | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F9%2FIssue%5F6%2FGhost%5FLore |
And I created then by these light signs | 8 | 9 | From beneath a mysterious and ice-cold half-mask | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From%5Fbeneath%5Fa%5Fmysterious%5Fand%5Fice%2Dcold%5Fhalf%2Dmask |
Oh! beautiful thou art, | 4 | 1 | Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 34 1833/The Water-Lily | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Felicia%5FHemans%5Fin%5FBlackwood%27s%5FEdinburgh%5FMagazine%5FVolume%5F34%5F1833%2FThe%5FWater%2DLily |
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, | 7 | 537 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Numbers would give their oaths upon it, | 7 | 127 | The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray/A Long Story | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FGray%2FA%5FLong%5FStory |
At Tencombe Rings near the Manor Linney | 7 | 75 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
And all the cornstalks from the West | 7 | 39 | An Idyll of Dandaloo | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FIdyll%5Fof%5FDandaloo |
Time may destroy, but cannot make you old. Up puppet vender, play the marionette | 14 | 451 | To Bourke's Statue | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue |
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, | 8 | 243 | 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 |
With staff and sling as to a dog he came, | 10 | 281 | St. Peter's Complaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint |
Engulfed in clouds and rain. | 5 | 8 | To ------ (Brontë) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5F%2D%2D%2D%2D%2D%2D%5F%28Bront%C3%AB%29 |
Proud, defiant, past all patience,Answered she as mockingly,— | 8 | 50 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/Llewellyn's vengeance | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FLlewellyn%27s%5Fvengeance |
The face of Truth with Impious Lies, | 7 | 823 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
'I'm a-weary of my life: | 5 | 32 | The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCourtship%5Fof%5Fthe%5FYonghy%2DBonghy%2DB%C3%B2 |
Almost without an effort, plans too vast | 7 | 253 | 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 |
Where riches shew the profitable game: | 6 | 235 | The Works of Henry Fielding/To A Friend on the Choice Of A Wife | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FTo%5FA%5FFriend%5Fon%5Fthe%5FChoice%5FOf%5FA%5FWife |
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