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Some querulously high, some softly, sadly low,
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The Questioning Spirit
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FQuestioning%5FSpirit
Was her sad refuge; for awhile the rocks
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45
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Poetic Sketches - Sketch Fourth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FPoetic%5FSketches%5F%2D%5FSketch%5FFourth
Perhaps this is all a Painter can want
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26
I askd my Dear Friend Orator Prigg
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I%5Faskd%5Fmy%5FDear%5FFriend%5FOrator%5FPrigg
still somewhere: let us bend this once our penitent knees,
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Towards the Source : 1894-97 : I : 10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Towards%5Fthe%5FSource%5F%3A%5F1894%2D97%5F%3A%5FI%5F%3A%5F10
      When all is vicy-versy!
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26
The Trustee's Lament
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTrustee%27s%5FLament
But tho' the music of my hopeful hymns
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12
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Mare Rubrum
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FMare%5FRubrum
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
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21
The Times/1914/Arts/For the Fallen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTimes%2F1914%2FArts%2FFor%5Fthe%5FFallen
   But bend and let it go o'er you.
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16
Poems of Cheer/As you go through Life
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAs%5Fyou%5Fgo%5Fthrough%5FLife
Yes! There's the mark of the bullet -- he's got it inside of him yet,
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60
In the Stable
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fthe%5FStable
In youth we raised our brows on high,
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An Anthology of Modern Bohemian Poetry/Summer Causerie
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FModern%5FBohemian%5FPoetry%2FSummer%5FCauserie
“It is the will and pleasure of Miss Trevor,
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2,172
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
Call across the scrubby ridges where they clear the barren soil,
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25
The Men Who Made Australia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMen%5FWho%5FMade%5FAustralia
Smile these wild scenes in your purpureal glow!
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2
Translations from Camoens; and Other Poets, with Original Poetry/Evening, amongst the Alps
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5FCamoens%3B%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoets%2C%5Fwith%5FOriginal%5FPoetry%2FEvening%2C%5Famongst%5Fthe%5FAlps
Contamination taints the idler first;
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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
The woes of war, or else the tyrant's chains.
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73
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/A Pastoral Dialogue
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FA%5FPastoral%5FDialogue
That our feet make. Remember Hela I have savd thee from death
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268
Tiriel
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tiriel
In other words a² + b² + 2ab
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2
Translations from the Chinese/(A + B)²
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2F%28A%5F%2B%5FB%29%C2%B2
Am I fit pastor for the faithful flock,
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171
St. Peter's Complaint
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
for the angels without transgression,
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135
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
Guns of Verdun, grey and long,
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7
Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3817/Guns of Verdun
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3817%2FGuns%5Fof%5FVerdun
With a "Llan" and a "Pen," but it breeds good men,
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32
Songs of Action/A Ballad of the Ranks
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FAction%2FA%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FRanks
Would take the shape of love to hide its own
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Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Scene 1
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FScene%5F1
on woruldriceworn afeded,
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1,969
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
At night, when I lie waking,
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13
Weep Not Too Much
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weep%5FNot%5FToo%5FMuch
He sat ungaitered, and undone, A picture of dismay—
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20
The Parson and the Prelate
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FParson%5Fand%5Fthe%5FPrelate
Who came his wound to cure;
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98
A Little Child's Monument/Azrael
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FAzrael
The Swan? We’ll take the oars, and let it float
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698
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
  Flounces on fences torn.
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12
The Baggage Wagon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBaggage%5FWagon
  Is to such of degree that, slowly, a prayer___ one cannot make
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12
Into the curve of that doubled tress, the hand one cannot put
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Into%5Fthe%5Fcurve%5Fof%5Fthat%5Fdoubled%5Ftress%2C%5Fthe%5Fhand%5Fone%5Fcannot%5Fput
Up some side-cut he sneaks, but he doesn't complain,
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13
Brogan's Lane
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Brogan%27s%5FLane
Ev’rywhere the glad news flinging,Slawa’s glories leave the grave!
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9
Bohemian Poems, Ancient and Modern/To my Country
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5FPoems%2C%5FAncient%5Fand%5FModern%2FTo%5Fmy%5FCountry
It sweeps to ocean's mighty arms at length.
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Littell's Living Age/Volume 132/Issue 1700/Let it be
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F132%2FIssue%5F1700%2FLet%5Fit%5Fbe
What is the song
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1
Weird Tales/Volume 26/Issue 3/Night Song
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F26%2FIssue%5F3%2FNight%5FSong
Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
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25
Voices of the Night/The Reaper and the Flowers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FThe%5FReaper%5Fand%5Fthe%5FFlowers
Sat in the curule chairs, the Lydian seer
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48
On his Consulship
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fhis%5FConsulship
Where, guided by the polestar’s light,The slave forsakes his chains,
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22
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/Dawn in an eastern jungle
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FDawn%5Fin%5Fan%5Feastern%5Fjungle
Their noses exquisitely wise,
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966
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
(this once) : and His mother said to Him, "Son,
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76
Jesus about His Father's Business
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jesus%5Fabout%5FHis%5FFather%27s%5FBusiness
Although the circumstance has not been stated
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76
Ode to Messrs Green Robert Hollond and Monck Mason on their Late Balloon Expedition
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FMessrs%5FGreen%5FRobert%5FHollond%5Fand%5FMonck%5FMason%5Fon%5Ftheir%5FLate%5FBalloon%5FExpedition
In long transmission, this rich atom some day,
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Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall
          A lovely cottage hidden by the trees;---
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Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta/To Anna
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memoirs%5Fof%5FAnne%5FC%2E%5FL%2E%5FBotta%2FTo%5FAnna
Thou shalt not pass away, until this earth
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Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Felicia Hemans
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zinzendorff%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FFelicia%5FHemans
With nought titanic in.
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The Pannikin Poet
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPannikin%5FPoet
But other light is in that holy pile,
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144
Translations from Camoens; and Other Poets, with Original Poetry/Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5FCamoens%3B%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoets%2C%5Fwith%5FOriginal%5FPoetry%2FStanzas%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5Fthe%5FPrincess%5FCharlotte
And we tacitly said nothing save the one word, “rabbit pie!”
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My Other Chinee Cook
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FOther%5FChinee%5FCook
She drowned me with her kisses and her tears.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/Rubens in the cloister
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F11%2FRubens%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fcloister
                                        Come, my pretty boy,
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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
And my life in the light of His favour is ended;
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Narrara Creek
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrara%5FCreek
Or the distant note of a torrent singing,
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15
Black Swans
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black%5FSwans
     Who sees that long victorious pomp
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Lays of Ancient Rome/The Prophecy of Capys
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FThe%5FProphecy%5Fof%5FCapys
Now therefore look to Dora; she is well
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Dora (Tennyson, 1887)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dora%5F%28Tennyson%2C%5F1887%29
For every sigh a contrite suppliant brings.
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The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
They wrapp’d me first in silken weft, And next in scarlet red array’d.
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Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/The Count of Vendel's daughter
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FThe%5FCount%5Fof%5FVendel%27s%5Fdaughter
  Seems to me
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Plantation Portrait
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FPlantation%5FPortrait
Yet som there be that by due steps aspire
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Comus and other poems/Comus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus
Just whistle a bit, if the day be dark,
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Just Whistle A Bit
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FJust%5FWhistle%5FA%5FBit
    Gives me the wishes of my soul to see;
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Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XXXVIII
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F1%2C%5FThe%5FNinth%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXXXVIII
To hell with your overtime
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The Shores of Botany Bay
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FShores%5Fof%5FBotany%5FBay
Deep in a Cellar under Ground,
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330
British Wonders
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders
Gelædde þa wigendweroda drihten
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1,693
Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
          Were ranged the shields of foes,
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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
Come on this mount of scented plants,
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31
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Friendship’s Offering, 1825/Home
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%5F1825%2FHome
Gratings (or doors) of silver, fair in aspect, 1. 409
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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
Well, set down dah in dat cheer,
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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
As much his home—as much his loved retreat,
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Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
  Or shake their heads and whisper, gossip-wise,
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The Haunted House (Brown)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FHaunted%5FHouse%5F%28Brown%29
           But distant be that hapless day
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Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta/To my friend, on his birthday
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memoirs%5Fof%5FAnne%5FC%2E%5FL%2E%5FBotta%2FTo%5Fmy%5Ffriend%2C%5Fon%5Fhis%5Fbirthday
In the age of gold,
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1826)/Songs of Experience/A Little Girl Lost
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FInnocence%5Fand%5Fof%5FExperience%5F%281826%29%2FSongs%5Fof%5FExperience%2FA%5FLittle%5FGirl%5FLost
To thee he carols, "Fair Cyllene rise."
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Poems by Felicia Dorothea Browne/To the Moon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fby%5FFelicia%5FDorothea%5FBrowne%2FTo%5Fthe%5FMoon
   He sees His servants duly paired.
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5,393
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
   An' yo' nose hit gits to know
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Scamp
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FScamp
And silence crowds the eager street.The widowed bay
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26
The Yellow Book/Volume 7/The Pompeian Cœlia
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYellow%5FBook%2FVolume%5F7%2FThe%5FPompeian%5FC%C5%93lia
Of splendors lifting to the evening star—And there he saw a face—it was his own.
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Commonweal/Vol. 3/Number 12/Poems of Brazil
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commonweal%2FVol%2E%5F3%2FNumber%5F12%2FPoems%5Fof%5FBrazil
   Twinkled a benison.
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The Shining Adventure
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FShining%5FAdventure
And from thy Fate shall such distress ensue?
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Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1790)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281790%29
Collected, gently warm no more,
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A Song (Cowper)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5F%28Cowper%29
Through the brush or beaten track
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Liza May
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FLiza%5FMay
My mother has a good reportyou hear, at her back side.
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Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy
Underneath the ivied wall,
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Monk's Walk
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FMonk%27s%5FWalk
   And ruin strikes the strays remaining;
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The Poems of Henry Kendall/Charles Harpur
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fof%5FHenry%5FKendall%2FCharles%5FHarpur
 The seasons reel
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Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/The Last Quarter of the Moon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FThe%5FLast%5FQuarter%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMoon
And while from Delhi far away,
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834/The Zenana
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%2FThe%5FZenana
Improves and joins a stronger tone
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This ev'ning, Delia, you and I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/This%5Fev%27ning%2C%5FDelia%2C%5Fyou%5Fand%5FI
Where the return stands by disdain:
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Who list his wealth and ease retain
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%5Flist%5Fhis%5Fwealth%5Fand%5Fease%5Fretain
Wile de coal-oil can des gu-gled, po'in oil erpon de flames.
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Trouble In De Kitchen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTrouble%5FIn%5FDe%5FKitchen
A whirling and a wandering fire:
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The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/The Madness of King Goll
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FMadness%5Fof%5FKing%5FGoll
The soft white feet of afternoon
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Orara
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Orara
   In the forest is loveliness still;
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Bill the Bullock-Driver
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bill%5Fthe%5FBullock%2DDriver
My full orb upon thine,
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The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Selene
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FSelene
words distinctly. The moral of them, however, I take to be this :--
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The Improvisatore (Coleridge)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FImprovisatore%5F%28Coleridge%29
     Look fresh an' young an' spry.—
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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/My Sort O' Man
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FMy%5FSort%5FO%27%5FMan
Over the desert in thirsty line our sunburnt squadrons rode.
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The Quest Eternal
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FQuest%5FEternal
Northward from the Lachlan River and the sun-dried Castlereagh, 
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Northward to the Sheds
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Northward%5Fto%5Fthe%5FSheds
That round her lattice floated, at twilight,
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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
And Heaven has kindly sent me here,
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The North Wind (Brontë)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNorth%5FWind%5F%28Bront%C3%AB%29
mid feðerhaman,ealra folca mæst,
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Gecyndbēc Lēoþ
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE
Thin ghosts of scents were in their teeth
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Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
Thou poisonest the fair design
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The Dark Angel
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDark%5FAngel
Where with Mister Lawson's squashes I can wash the dust away.
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The Overflow of Clancy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOverflow%5Fof%5FClancy
Misnomer Equity, Insolvents bleed
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To Bourke's Statue
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue