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While these poor babes their death in birth do find: | 10 | 699 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Of saddening twilight steals, | 4 | 10 | Memory (Sigourney) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memory%5F%28Sigourney%29 |
A music whose notes are of dreadful flame, | 8 | 27 | A Song of the Stars | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fof%5Fthe%5FStars |
Lays the last column of Minerva low!.mw-parser-output .wst-floatright{float:right;text-indent:0}J. F. | 9 | 49 | Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2/Greece | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F1%2FIssue%5F2%2FGreece |
Thus the leaf, the bird, the blossom, grew a gracious sisterhood; | 11 | 16 | Leichhardt | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Leichhardt |
I never shall be parted. | 5 | 4 | Evening Songs (1920)/56 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Evening%5FSongs%5F%281920%29%2F56 |
His giant shade preceded him, | 5 | 6 | Poems of Experience/The Birth of Jealousy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FBirth%5Fof%5FJealousy |
All roads that lead to God are good. | 8 | 28 | Poems of Experience/The Goal | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FGoal |
Brittle and sere, from last year's stack; | 7 | 28 | The Death of Huss | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDeath%5Fof%5FHuss |
Remove away that blac'kning church: | 5 | 2 | An ancient Proverb | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5Fancient%5FProverb |
Sure, show! | 2 | 9 | All the crowd... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/All%5Fthe%5Fcrowd%2E%2E%2E |
To dress a Sofa with the flow'rs of verse, | 9 | 1,006 | 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 |
Which duteous Memory should have stored | 6 | 4,273 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Button up yo' jacket, | 4 | 7 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Grievance | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FGrievance |
It is not learning, grace nor gear, | 7 | 9 | The Benefactors | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBenefactors |
Julian. Your confidence | 3 | 110 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Scene 1 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FScene%5F1 |
Of peace and feeling. Love, oh love! thy home | 9 | 46 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Two Doves in a Grove | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FTwo%5FDoves%5Fin%5Fa%5FGrove |
But here ye life, ye bloom,--in each dear face, | 9 | 435 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
Will love at last remain? | 5 | 6 | August (Smith) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/August%5F%28Smith%29 |
In days of Yore, when modesty reign'd here, | 8 | 1 | The Enquirer into Nature | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEnquirer%5Finto%5FNature |
They ought not, when it comes to another's turn | 9 | 4 | If Men will act like a maid smiling over a Churn | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/If%5FMen%5Fwill%5Fact%5Flike%5Fa%5Fmaid%5Fsmiling%5Fover%5Fa%5FChurn |
Hundreds upon hundreds shall spill their blood | 7 | 97 | Poet Lore/Volume 28/Number 4/On Golgotha | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poet%5FLore%2FVolume%5F28%2FNumber%5F4%2FOn%5FGolgotha |
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe, | 8 | 230 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1904) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FReading%5FGaol%5F%281904%29 |
Then a whimper came from a questing hound, | 8 | 1,246 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
Since Love within my heart made nest, | 7 | 1 | The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 2/Myrtle Flowers | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F2%2FMyrtle%5FFlowers |
If unforgiven sin | 3 | 5 | Child's Prayer at entering Church | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Child%27s%5FPrayer%5Fat%5Fentering%5FChurch |
A tale of patient sorrow, and of faith, Which taught that patience. | 12 | 1 | Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Amulet, 1833/Agatha | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FThe%5FAmulet%2C%5F1833%2FAgatha |
He was wrinkled, and pock-marked, and stooped, and at meal times sat silent, apart, | 14 | 15 | How He Died | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FHe%5FDied |
Trembling letters—but some stranger | 4 | 49 | Across the Lines | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Across%5Fthe%5FLines |
The croud then made the air to ring, | 8 | 108 | Peter's Banquet, or, The Cavalier in the Dumps | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Peter%27s%5FBanquet%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5FCavalier%5Fin%5Fthe%5FDumps |
Wherever I may die, | 4 | 46 | Core of My Heart | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Core%5Fof%5FMy%5FHeart |
Prince among angels in the highest place, | 7 | 14 | The Unpardonable Sin (Chesterton) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FUnpardonable%5FSin%5F%28Chesterton%29 |
The sword sung on the barren heath, | 7 | 2 | The sword sung on the barren heath | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fsword%5Fsung%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fbarren%5Fheath |
And the wan moon wheels round to glare | 8 | 28 | To an Old Oak | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fan%5FOld%5FOak |
Down falls the venerable pile, th' abode | 7 | 767 | 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 |
Waring Cuney. | 2 | 26 | Fire!!/Flame from the Dark Tower/The Death Bed | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fire%21%21%2FFlame%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FDark%5FTower%2FThe%5FDeath%5FBed |
And at the self-same moment faction's crimes | 7 | 89 | On his Consulship | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fhis%5FConsulship |
She is weary of dance and play." | 7 | 25 | Song from Maud | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Ffrom%5FMaud |
Hath happened here, to spy thee. She, no doubt, | 9 | 8 | To a Shred of Linen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FShred%5Fof%5FLinen |
But the strains still arise | 5 | 271 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf |
Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear? | 8 | 6 | Woman's Constancy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman%27s%5FConstancy |
To the old bold mate of Henry Morgan. | 8 | 20 | Captain Stratton's Fancy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain%5FStratton%27s%5FFancy |
A summer Noon and Twilight fused And mingled into one. | 10 | 4 | Elfland | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elfland |
Time hath grown cold | 4 | 60 | The Masque of the Foresaken Gods | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMasque%5Fof%5Fthe%5FForesaken%5FGods |
What words so ere she speak persuades for thee, | 9 | 162 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
She met his scornful glances proudly— | 6 | 35 | Grimm Tales Made Gay/How Rumplestilz Held Out in Vain for a Bonus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Grimm%5FTales%5FMade%5FGay%2FHow%5FRumplestilz%5FHeld%5FOut%5Fin%5FVain%5Ffor%5Fa%5FBonus |
Age after age, man's branching hopes, and blast | 8 | 33 | Poems Sigourney 1827/Wyllys' Hill and the Charter Oak | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FWyllys%27%5FHill%5Fand%5Fthe%5FCharter%5FOak |
Sends forth glad sounds, and tripping o'er its bed | 9 | 34 | Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Inscription%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FEntrance%5Fto%5Fa%5FWood |
Come, unfold your vocal treasure, | 5 | 25 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Bridal Measure | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FBridal%5FMeasure |
Which hath its root in God. Mock not with mirth | 10 | 36 | The Bride (Sigourney) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBride%5F%28Sigourney%29 |
I cannot pranke to please hir nowe, my vaunting is but vaine. | 12 | 14 | The Divorce of a Lover | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDivorce%5Fof%5Fa%5FLover |
No maimed or worthless sacrifice. | 5 | 13 | The Children's Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChildren%27s%5FSong |
Alas! my thoughts, how faint they rise, Their pinions clogg'd with dirt; | 12 | 2 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/A Thought on Death | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FA%5FThought%5Fon%5FDeath |
I never meant to rouse your anger so; | 8 | 163 | Poems of Experience/The New Hawaiian Girl | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FNew%5FHawaiian%5FGirl |
Whom, if ſhee accuſe her ſelfe, I credit leſſe | 9 | 51 | Poems (Donne)/Elegie II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5F%28Donne%29%2FElegie%5FII |
All noble fashions to make people glad | 7 | 15 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/St. Dorothy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FSt%2E%5FDorothy |
Here, while beyond the rainy stream | 6 | 5 | Names Upon a Stone | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Names%5FUpon%5Fa%5FStone |
No mouse of honour could evade.35 On the next morn, as soon as light, | 14 | 30 | Duellists | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Duellists |
So frail a gem, it scarce may bear | 8 | 832 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
From Balbec, and the stilly, clear abyss | 7 | 189 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf |
Of those grey garments; I pronounce that piece | 8 | 480 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
But she hastily retreated, | 4 | 176 | Thirty Charades | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thirty%5FCharades |
Bustles around and issues her commands, | 6 | 11 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3813/The Packer's Plaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3813%2FThe%5FPacker%27s%5FPlaint |
The wonted roar was up amidst the Woods, | 8 | 507 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
Look away where a thousand years had fled, | 8 | 7 | The Lean Old Man | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLean%5FOld%5FMan |
lanthe. Oh, how I should | 5 | 135 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Dramatic Scene | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FDramatic%5FScene |
And can you blame her that her gaze | 8 | 9 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/To the Memory of Mary Young | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTo%5Fthe%5FMemory%5Fof%5FMary%5FYoung |
And let them go round without you. | 7 | 40 | The Old Timer's Steeplechase | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FTimer%27s%5FSteeplechase |
His wondering brow he raised, | 5 | 761 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
At the melting of the snow. | 6 | 8 | At the Melting of the Snow | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At%5Fthe%5FMelting%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSnow |
And found Lucrece, combing the fleece, under the midnight lamp. | 10 | 39 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Virginia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FVirginia |
'Gainst every feeling soft, emptied a glass | 7 | 36 | Sarangadhara II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sarangadhara%5FII |
So we 're keepin' company. | 5 | 36 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Confidence | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FConfidence |
The Beau affects the Politician, | 5 | 43 | The Reasons that Induced Dr S to write a Poem call'd the Lady's Dressing room | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FReasons%5Fthat%5FInduced%5FDr%5FS%5Fto%5Fwrite%5Fa%5FPoem%5Fcall%27d%5Fthe%5FLady%27s%5FDressing%5Froom |
What we did not expect, Gods brought to bear; | 9 | 179 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
In color upon earth and sky, | 6 | 7 | McClure's Magazine/Volume 9/Number 1/May | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McClure%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F9%2FNumber%5F1%2FMay |
I felt thee gone, and opening widest eyes, | 8 | 54 | Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall |
To lay their eggs and hunt the shepherd's crumbs, | 9 | 30 | The Mole-Catcher | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMole%2DCatcher |
By causes not to be divulg'd in vain, | 8 | 371 | 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 |
ofer brad brymubeorhte scinan. | 4 | 2,632 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played, | 11 | 22 | A Ballad of John Silver | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBallad%5Fof%5FJohn%5FSilver |
What ſtrange offence, what aggravated ſin? | 6 | 124 | Slavery, a poem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Slavery%2C%5Fa%5Fpoem |
And smiles, delighted with th' eternal poise. | 7 | 486 | The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 4 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F4 |
You were just talking what was in your mind, | 9 | 29 | North of Boston/The Code | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FCode |
on which side does he make his fair circuit, | 9 | 94 | 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 |
O indivisible infinity ! | 4 | 15 | Ode to the Abyss | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5Fthe%5FAbyss |
I sit alone with sorrow. | 5 | 15 | A Daughter of Eve | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDaughter%5Fof%5FEve |
It may be, for her own dear sake but this, | 10 | 141 | Edwin Morris; or, the Lake | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Edwin%5FMorris%3B%5For%2C%5Fthe%5FLake |
with loue may one another entertayne. | 6 | 13 | Sonnet 68 (Spenser) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonnet%5F68%5F%28Spenser%29 |
"I care for nothing, good nor bad, | 7 | 9 | Song of the Future (Paterson) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFuture%5F%28Paterson%29 |
Outside, the spangled cock did call | 6 | 40 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
Thy spirit is around, | 4 | 19 | Hymn of the City | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5Fof%5Fthe%5FCity |
Like 'em - An' he pounded me | 7 | 23 | The Fishin' Party | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFishin%27%5FParty |
But any boy that's worth his salt will roll his swag and roam. | 13 | 16 | Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saltbush%5FBill%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPatriarchs |
And the first thing that he'd noticed was a bottle on a shelf | 13 | 15 | Commandeering | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commandeering |
And when the watches changed the men would come | 9 | 1,760 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
To make fair Plenty through the realm increase, | 8 | 1,274 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
Thine outraged laws, | 3 | 2,356 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
The answer came. “She lives, but hasten, friend! | 8 | 2,741 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
That you at need may swear to 'em; | 8 | 97 | The Trustee's Lament | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTrustee%27s%5FLament |
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