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Qu'autant que je l'aurai dit. | 5 | 48 | The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 6 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FFirst%5FHalf%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSeventeenth%5FCentury%2FChapter%5F6 |
The visions of racing came thronging | 6 | 81 | Our New Horse | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Our%5FNew%5FHorse |
Whatever soothes, subdues, endears, | 4 | 126 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840/The Portrait of Lord Byron, at Newstead Abbey | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1840%2FThe%5FPortrait%5Fof%5FLord%5FByron%2C%5Fat%5FNewstead%5FAbbey |
Oh ! but we went merrily ! | 7 | 5 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
Clanging loudly and vainly | 4 | 4 | Translations from the Chinese/Inscription for a Door-knocker on Tenth Street | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FInscription%5Ffor%5Fa%5FDoor%2Dknocker%5Fon%5FTenth%5FStreet |
Brooks, and birds, and butterflies. | 5 | 40 | Our Little Ghost | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Our%5FLittle%5FGhost |
He glories there in what he here thought shame. | 9 | 82 | The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Columbia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FColumbia |
For you are black, and I am white.’ I paused, struck dumb with fear. | 14 | 24 | Poems of Experience/Christ Crucified | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FChrist%5FCrucified |
But, as we near'd the lonely Isle; | 7 | 13 | Flannan Isle | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Flannan%5FIsle |
That shrunk thy streams; Return Sicilian Muse, | 7 | 121 | Comus and other poems/Lycidas | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FLycidas |
Remember, it's seldom the pigeon can pick out the eye of the crow; | 13 | 2 | Wisdom of Hafiz | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wisdom%5Fof%5FHafiz |
The olive-wreath, the ivied wand, | 5 | 1,269 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
"Have we not done our share? | 6 | 16 | The Last Parade | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLast%5FParade |
But several years elapsed since they had met; | 8 | 262 | Beppo (Lord Byron) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29 |
They told of Thee, but not as Thou must be, | 10 | 15 | Shir Hakovod | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shir%5FHakovod |
We’ll seek the origin of worlds, | 6 | 13 | The Soul Of A Century/We too must die | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FWe%5Ftoo%5Fmust%5Fdie |
And sometimes with an A; | 5 | 28 | The Disadvantages of the Hub Club | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDisadvantages%5Fof%5Fthe%5FHub%5FClub |
Auld Brig 150"O ye, my dear-remember'd, ancient yealings, | 8 | 127 | The Brigs Of Ayr (Shorter version) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBrigs%5FOf%5FAyr%5F%28Shorter%5Fversion%29 |
Heave ho, weave low, | 4 | 5 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Fisher Child's Lullaby | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FFisher%5FChild%27s%5FLullaby |
And from his touchwood trunk the mulberry tree | 8 | 687 | 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 |
Skin-deep, but throughly to the total man, | 7 | 503 | 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 some’ll swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench; | 11 | 6 | Captain Stratton's Fancy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain%5FStratton%27s%5FFancy |
In vain the wise philosopher | 5 | 7 | Poems of Cheer/Prayer | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FPrayer |
Then they lifted hands and turned, | 6 | 309 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Slumber and Sleep, two brothers appointed to serve the immortals, | 10 | 23 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Translations from Goethe | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FTranslations%5Ffrom%5FGoethe |
Thy native cot she held to view, | 7 | 63 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1790) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281790%29 |
Where are they gone, the old familiar faces? | 8 | 1 | The Old Familiar Faces | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FFamiliar%5FFaces |
(For the stealin' of cows and the tellin' of lies.) | 10 | 12 | There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/There%E2%80%99s%5Fan%5Fisle%5Ffar%5Faway%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fbreast%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fsea%2E%2E%2E |
Or art thou else to comfort me foresworn? | 8 | 973 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Does matter govern ſpirit? or is mind65 | 7 | 63 | Slavery, a poem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Slavery%2C%5Fa%5Fpoem |
With sevenscore millions saddled; | 4 | 16 | A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party (1874) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBoston%5FTea%2DParty%5F%281874%29 |
Adown the current of the years, | 6 | 43 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/In Summer Time | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FIn%5FSummer%5FTime |
Than tamer men, and growing shame | 6 | 78 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/Australia to England | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FAustralia%5Fto%5FEngland |
You seek to nurse at fullest breasts of Fame, | 9 | 210 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
The swallow also dwell with thee, | 6 | 496 | A Song to David | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid |
I thought not of my mother's lonely hours; | 8 | 141 | 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 |
And Geraldine in maiden wise, | 5 | 551 | Christabel; Kubla Khan; The Pains of Sleep (1816)/Christabel | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Christabel%3B%5FKubla%5FKhan%3B%5FThe%5FPains%5Fof%5FSleep%5F%281816%29%2FChristabel |
For skimming in the wake it mock'd the care | 9 | 3 | Limbo (Coleridge poem) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Limbo%5F%28Coleridge%5Fpoem%29 |
Did in the Northern Heav'ns appear, | 6 | 874 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
Your triolet should glimmer | 4 | 7 | Dreams & Dust/The Triolet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dreams%5F%26%5FDust%2FThe%5FTriolet |
So 's he 'd find out, don't you see, | 9 | 13 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Confidence | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FConfidence |
May your love be ever true! | 6 | 43 | Private Tommy Atkins | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Private%5FTommy%5FAtkins |
Down where the ships, long sunken, float, | 7 | 33 | The Sea (Howard) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSea%5F%28Howard%29 |
In fine, if thou delight'st to be, | 7 | 50 | To Chuse a Friend | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FChuse%5Fa%5FFriend |
What floating mists of dark idolatry | 6 | 32 | Religious Musings (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Religious%5FMusings%5F%28unsourced%29 |
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it | 11 | 8 | Success (Berton Braley) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Success%5F%28Berton%5FBraley%29 |
With the slow beat that doubts and then despairs, | 9 | 32 | On Board the '76 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FBoard%5Fthe%5F%2776 |
I'll refuse him my hand and from envy be free.' | 10 | 90 | 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 |
Empty of immortality and bliss! | 5 | 276 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
Surely in inner-sweet gladness and vigour of joy shall sustain her, | 11 | 68 | The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/4 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F4 |
That in immortal silence sleeps | 5 | 156 | 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 |
And fade not. There is paradise that fears | 8 | 571 | 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 |
With which she rose. A cloud of chesnut curls, | 9 | 7 | Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Forget Me Not, 1824/Ellen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FForget%5FMe%5FNot%2C%5F1824%2FEllen |
Alone of all created things | 5 | 97 | St. John's Eve (Kochanowski) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29 |
In a green bed, | 4 | 2 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1712/Sweet Love is Dead | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1712%2FSweet%5FLove%5Fis%5FDead |
Like them by delicate rectitude of use. | 7 | 11 | Stradivarius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stradivarius |
The blustering false Bohemian That you have never been; | 9 | 31 | To Victor Daley | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FVictor%5FDaley |
Rise, arm, exercise, pray and pay ! | 7 | 146 | The Christian Juggernaut | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FJuggernaut |
Thy placid lightning o’er the awaken’d sky. | 7 | 8 | Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonnet%3A%5FTo%5Fthe%5FAutumnal%5FMoon%5F%28unsourced%29 |
On a feasted fox at rest from hunting, | 8 | 1,375 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat | 8 | 6 | Sonnet 30 (Spencer) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sonnet%5F30%5F%28Spencer%29 |
Our dead on every shore. | 5 | 5 | Justice (Kipling) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Justice%5F%28Kipling%29 |
Dark glens beneath in shadowy beauty sleep, | 7 | 7 | 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 |
Soft, versifying youths that prate,And think themselves immensely clever, | 9 | 1 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/Confessions of a captive | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FConfessions%5Fof%5Fa%5Fcaptive |
Then the wood-end rang with the clear voice crying | 9 | 191 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
Written all over this great world of ours; | 8 | 14 | Voices of the Night/Flowers | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FFlowers |
many thousands, a hundred of hundreds. | 6 | 104 | 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 |
In the next Line, it whispers thro' the Trees; | 9 | 308 | An Essay on Criticism | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism |
(For how could Kitty stop to think | 7 | 13 | The Baggage Wagon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBaggage%5FWagon |
They left far o'er the seas. | 6 | 48 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/The African | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1832%2FThe%5FAfrican |
Rose, Ellen, Mary, Margaret — | 5 | 15 | Anna (Daley poem) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anna%5F%28Daley%5Fpoem%29 |
Can the lane content you always with its barren and its bright? | 12 | 26 | The Yellow Book/Volume 5/The Call | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYellow%5FBook%2FVolume%5F5%2FThe%5FCall |
And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, | 8 | 113 | The Cataract of Lodore | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCataract%5Fof%5FLodore |
The troopers rally round the turnpike gate; | 7 | 80 | To Bourke's Statue | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FBourke%27s%5FStatue |
The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky, | 11 | 2 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Her Thought And His | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FHer%5FThought%5FAnd%5FHis |
Bless de precious girlie! | 4 | 40 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Dely | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDely |
Like fairies on the mountain side, | 6 | 26 | Song of the Future (Paterson) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFuture%5F%28Paterson%29 |
Sunk in the ground, of a granite boulder. | 8 | 1,264 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
To autumn or to spring. | 5 | 4,767 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Doth even grom rich, naming my Stella's name. | 8 | 489 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
'She at her husband then did scold,'and cry'd, your cursed son | 11 | 183 | Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy |
For which Irvin Cobb has consistently praised him— | 8 | 39 | Travels in Philadelphia/Benjamin Franklin | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Travels%5Fin%5FPhiladelphia%2FBenjamin%5FFranklin |
He had a stiff and awkward crew, | 7 | 104 | 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 |
To be with it all I can." | 7 | 100 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/A Tale of Starvation | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FA%5FTale%5Fof%5FStarvation |
Unless my glass were crystal, or yet more clear: | 9 | 11 | To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FQueen%27s%5FMost%5FExcellent%5FMajesty |
Did glut himself again:—a meal was bought | 7 | 39 | Darkness (Byron, 1901) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Darkness%5F%28Byron%2C%5F1901%29 |
Which tried at an exultant prophecyBut dropped before the measure was complete— | 12 | 676 | Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Casa Guidi Windows | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prometheus%5FBound%2C%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FCasa%5FGuidi%5FWindows |
I left the dreadful corner where the steps are never still, | 11 | 64 | Faces in the Street | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Faces%5Fin%5Fthe%5FStreet |
Di. Marry, ill spirit! and at your sole choice? | 9 | 454 | 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 |
Made his best congee, bending low, | 6 | 167 | Poems Sigourney 1827/The Comet of 1825 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FThe%5FComet%5Fof%5F1825 |
Sank trustfully to rest— | 4 | 20 | A Little Child's Monument/"The Desert shall blossom as the Rose" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2F%22The%5FDesert%5Fshall%5Fblossom%5Fas%5Fthe%5FRose%22 |
What is that sacred well, Wherein, as poets tell (And they are wise), | 13 | 1 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/ANAMNHΣIΣ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FANAMNH%CE%A3I%CE%A3 |
It was my mother's sketch-book; hid, I fear, | 8 | 569 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
Yet scarce the Poet’s prophet-soul divinedAll that the coming years should bring to light, | 14 | 5 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/A thought on Man | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2FA%5Fthought%5Fon%5FMan |
Because they have no sauces to their stews; | 8 | 66 | Beppo (Lord Byron) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29 |
Thou wast wafted with the story | 6 | 9 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3820/Ode to the Spirit of Wireless Victory | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3820%2FOde%5Fto%5Fthe%5FSpirit%5Fof%5FWireless%5FVictory |
Make me a mandrake, so I may grow here, | 9 | 11 | Twickenham Garden | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Twickenham%5FGarden |
For fear of its bringing up any dissension) | 8 | 35 | Travels in Philadelphia/Benjamin Franklin | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Travels%5Fin%5FPhiladelphia%2FBenjamin%5FFranklin |
Had caught us in its snare. | 6 | 128 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1904) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FReading%5FGaol%5F%281904%29 |
And there, without conviction, heThrew off the following, by request:— | 10 | 6 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3825/Canute and the Kaiser | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3825%2FCanute%5Fand%5Fthe%5FKaiser |
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