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   Until we meet again.
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Poems for the Sea/Parting
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FSea%2FParting
Whene'er I bought her lemonade He bought her gum and candy.
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Bloomin'
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bloomin%27
Down in your eyes shone a deep light--a far light,
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23
Poems of Cheer/Over the May Hill
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FOver%5Fthe%5FMay%5FHill
Did more than this,—higher hoped and braver dared,—I think he were a pope in jeopardy,
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Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows
Of girlish loveliness: blue eyes,
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3
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/On the Picture of a Young Girl
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FOn%5Fthe%5FPicture%5Fof%5Fa%5FYoung%5FGirl
The portals open to the viewless wind;
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The New Birth (Very)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNew%5FBirth%5F%28Very%29
About her sorrow's brimful measure.
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54
May (Mácha)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
           O sweet, sad autumn of the waning year,
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Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta/Indian Summer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memoirs%5Fof%5FAnne%5FC%2E%5FL%2E%5FBotta%2FIndian%5FSummer
Then “pretty” “pretty” might not be
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15
To a Bird (1888)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FBird%5F%281888%29
And though the soul bewildered err from life to life,
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80
A Little Child's Monument/"The Sea shall give up her Dead"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2F%22The%5FSea%5Fshall%5Fgive%5Fup%5Fher%5FDead%22
The dash between that meant so much to me).
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396
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
The Gown, contemptuous beholder,
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Brocaded Gown and Linen Rag
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Brocaded%5FGown%5Fand%5FLinen%5FRag
For one sad, sacred moment. Then she said,
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
A shout at thy return.
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22
The Skies
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSkies
That had made his life a burden,Passed away like rain;
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Bohemian legends and other poems/John, Sacrificed John
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FJohn%2C%5FSacrificed%5FJohn
He deems a thousand, or ten thousand lives,
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276
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
What doth it matter to the spirit freed
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Ode (1852) (Sargent)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5F%281852%29%5F%28Sargent%29
  How whole thy final Care!
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Aesthetic Papers/Hymn of a Spirit Shrouded
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aesthetic%5FPapers%2FHymn%5Fof%5Fa%5FSpirit%5FShrouded
May not all discords to one concord lead—
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21
Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1694/Possibilities
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1694%2FPossibilities
Come, heart for heart—a trade? What! weeping? why?’
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Poems of Sidney Lanier/The Symphony
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FThe%5FSymphony
With their friends at home they lov'd most dear,
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27
The Tay Bridge Disaster
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTay%5FBridge%5FDisaster
Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where
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Robert Browning (Landor poem)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Robert%5FBrowning%5F%28Landor%5Fpoem%29
And be that union in Athenia's mind.
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164
The Female Right to Literature
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFemale%5FRight%5Fto%5FLiterature
Without remorse or hate—as one new born.
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Poems of Charles Baudelaire/An Allegory
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCharles%5FBaudelaire%2FAn%5FAllegory
       Who are just born, being dead.
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114
The Blessed Damozel (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlessed%5FDamozel%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29
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Why should I care for the Men of Thames
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why%5Fshould%5FI%5Fcare%5Ffor%5Fthe%5FMen%5Fof%5FThames
    Died in the midnight skies.
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74
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834/A Legend of Teignmouth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1834%2FA%5FLegend%5Fof%5FTeignmouth
Stand clear against heaven’s far ethereal fires,
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4
Poet Lore/Volume 34/Number 1/Sunset Down Mount Vernon Street
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poet%5FLore%2FVolume%5F34%2FNumber%5F1%2FSunset%5FDown%5FMount%5FVernon%5FStreet
But the fighting man he kicked Bill's dog, and of course that meant a fight.
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Saltbush Bill's Second Fight
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saltbush%5FBill%27s%5FSecond%5FFight
The fly is cast; (ah, he's a fool Who'd flee from Beauty's wounding!)
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5
When Mabel Goes A-Fishing
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/When%5FMabel%5FGoes%5FA%2DFishing
Behold th' excising pow'r of man despoil
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129
The Works of Henry Fielding/Liberty. To George Lyttleton, Esq.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FLiberty%2E%5FTo%5FGeorge%5FLyttleton%2C%5FEsq%2E
They reach'd the island, he transferr'd his lading
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Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
An' you 'low anothah minute
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21
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Noddin' by de Fire
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FNoddin%27%5Fby%5Fde%5FFire
Was rotten, and all the foxes disappeared,
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76
The Old Huntsman and Other Poems/The Old Huntsman
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FHuntsman%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FOld%5FHuntsman
               (O Troy Town!)
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86
Troy Town (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Troy%5FTown%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29
The lustful murderess of her wedded lord!
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172
Religious Musings (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Religious%5FMusings%5F%28unsourced%29
From chair to chair she past along,
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5
Mrs. Abigail and the Dumb Waiter
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mrs%2E%5FAbigail%5Fand%5Fthe%5FDumb%5FWaiter
And Satan then said: Woeful Sufferer,
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35
Poet Lore/Volume 28/Number 4/On Golgotha
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poet%5FLore%2FVolume%5F28%2FNumber%5F4%2FOn%5FGolgotha
Whose lightest beat to her was more than life,
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40
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Literary Souvenir, 1825/The Criminal
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FSouvenir%2C%5F1825%2FThe%5FCriminal
Believing Fools with Lying News;
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British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
The lamp said,
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69
Prufrock and Other Observations/Rhapsody on a Windy Night
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FRhapsody%5Fon%5Fa%5FWindy%5FNight
My busy eyes and heart outstrip my feet.
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19
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/My home
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FMy%5Fhome
He has learned to joke at the powder smoke,
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Songs of Action/A Ballad of the Ranks
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FAction%2FA%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FRanks
   Has been for years asleep.
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72
After Many Years
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/After%5FMany%5FYears
You lay upon your back, and waited;
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Prufrock and Other Observations/Preludes
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPreludes
With the fine pride of art—that pride which leads
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833/The Tomb of Aurungzebe
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%2FThe%5FTomb%5Fof%5FAurungzebe
From the joy of flower or leaf,
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A Little Child's Monument/Dark Spring
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FDark%5FSpring
It is due to the gold
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22
Oriental Stories/Volume 1/Issue 1/The Yellow River
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oriental%5FStories%2FVolume%5F1%2FIssue%5F1%2FThe%5FYellow%5FRiver
Ran roughshod over the park like a wide colt
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Sarangadhara II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sarangadhara%5FII
For he was great, ere fortune made him so;
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22
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell (no source)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Heroic%5FStanzas%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FOliver%5FCromwell%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
I wish no happier one than to be laid
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The Dragon-Fly (Landor)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDragon%2DFly%5F%28Landor%29
Such principles are most absurd,—
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Merry Autumn
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FMerry%5FAutumn
"How are they free whom we had bound?
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The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Las' he say, "I'll mek de trade."
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Cabin Tale
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FCabin%5FTale
And London may "fry in its own grease"
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Pro Patria Cuncta et Facere et Ferre Parati
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pro%5FPatria%5FCuncta%5Fet%5FFacere%5Fet%5FFerre%5FParati
   Or, if impelled to interfere,
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Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse/The Comforters
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rudyard%5FKipling%3A%5FThe%5FComplete%5FVerse%2FThe%5FComforters
As some lone pilgrim, with his staff and beads,
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St. Francis Xavier
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FFrancis%5FXavier
Friend, 'tis a pure June morning. Ask the bees,
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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
Done saved up fu' him.
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Chrismus Is A-Comin'
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FChrismus%5FIs%5FA%2DComin%27
My Cattle will here thrive better than others;
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45
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/The Devil's Walk
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FPercy%5FBysshe%5FShelley%5F%28ed%2E%5FHutchinson%2C%5F1914%29%2FThe%5FDevil%27s%5FWalk
Shall turn November into May.
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Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1720/A May-Day Hymn
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1720%2FA%5FMay%2DDay%5FHymn
'I've made, how acted like a Turk;
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The Works of Henry Fielding/To Celia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FTo%5FCelia
Not of those magic fires at random caught:
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The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
The ways of all the woodland Gleam with a soft and golden fire—
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Chamber Music
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chamber%5FMusic
But near and nearest to the wall
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100
The Siege of Corinth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
That flowed from His wounds while on the Cross,
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70
The Crucifixion of Christ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCrucifixion%5Fof%5FChrist
They still renew'd their bloody Fight,
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British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
Man's voice was there—a clarion voice to cheer
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The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
Yet the coroner's merry little children
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Hic Jacet (Williams)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hic%5FJacet%5F%28Williams%29
'O father! I saw my mother there,
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Life of William Blake (1863), Volume 2/Poems Hitherto Unpublished
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FBlake%5F%281863%29%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2FPoems%5FHitherto%5FUnpublished
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Some Men created for destruction come
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Some%5FMen%5Fcreated%5Ffor%5Fdestruction%5Fcome
Then all the Rhine towers shook to hear The earthquake of their cheers.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/A day-dream on the Rhine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F7%2FA%5Fday%2Ddream%5Fon%5Fthe%5FRhine
For down to the start with her thoroughbred air
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Mulligan's Mare
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mulligan%27s%5FMare
Dreaming a charmed dream, as one
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27
A Sunset Fantasy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSunset%5FFantasy
Where dashes down the torrent’s pride,
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834/Airey Force
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1834%2FAirey%5FForce
Raising your blushing queenly headsIn the glare of summer noon.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/"One in a thousand"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2F%22One%5Fin%5Fa%5Fthousand%22
It struck a stone and gave a spring that cleared a fallen tree,
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27
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mulga%5FBill%27s%5FBicycle
A defunct pillow-case.—Did the trim guest,
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To a Shred of Linen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FShred%5Fof%5FLinen
The Upper Murrumbidgee.
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A Mountain Station
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FMountain%5FStation
—Yet one*[1] there was, who not with passive song,
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Poems Sigourney 1827/Invocation to Greece
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FInvocation%5Fto%5FGreece
With the four horses."
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Balaustion's Adventure/III
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII
Their horses swim in a sea of gore
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The Riders of Babylon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRiders%5Fof%5FBabylon
Blessed increase of reviving Earth,
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The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Pretty, I see it, and sweet; but they hardly would grow in my borders.
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The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/2
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F2
By the brooks that playful wrangle,Washing round the roots of beeches.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The chase of the Siren
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FThe%5Fchase%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSiren
'Twas Driver Smith of Battery A was anxious to see a fight;
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Driver Smith
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Driver%5FSmith
Against the wall.
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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/The Precinct. Rochester
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FThe%5FPrecinct%2E%5FRochester
Must set, you know, to our vocation.
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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
Before the Cross shall rise my fair form's beauties—-
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Poems of Passion/The Farewell of Clarimonde
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FThe%5FFarewell%5Fof%5FClarimonde
And green savannahs, on the further bank,
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Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Friendship’s Offering, 1826/The Emigrants
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFriendship%E2%80%99s%5FOffering%2C%5F1826%2FThe%5FEmigrants
Self-overthrow, false friend, root of remorse;
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St. Peter's Complaint
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
   CEASE, vainest nymphs, with Celia to contend,
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The Works of Henry Fielding/Advice To The Nymphs Of New S-m. Written in the year 1730.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FAdvice%5FTo%5FThe%5FNymphs%5FOf%5FNew%5FS%2Dm%2E%5FWritten%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fyear%5F1730%2E
In the green Grass she loves to lie,
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The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPicture%5Fof%5FLittle%5FT%2EC%2E%5Fin%5Fa%5FProspect%5Fof%5FFlowers
And told his nephew how he ſped,
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Wife of Beith
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith
My head's all right, an' my heart's meller,
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/An Easy-Goin' Feller
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FAn%5FEasy%2DGoin%27%5FFeller
Does it purport to speak in? Not old Grandsir’s
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North of Boston/The Generations of Men
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FGenerations%5Fof%5FMen
Romantic Cambria hail! to thee I sing.
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Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne/The Reign of December
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fby%5FFelicia%5FDorothea%5FBrowne%2FThe%5FReign%5Fof%5FDecember
When weary of the matrimonial tether
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Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
Fal de dal, &c.
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The Merry Muses of Caledonia/The Patriarch
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMerry%5FMuses%5Fof%5FCaledonia%2FThe%5FPatriarch
Upon a mountain crag, young Angelo –
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Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf