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O beams of mercy; beat on sorrow's cloud, | 8 | 475 | St. Peter's Complaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint |
Will fill my soul with music and with song; | 9 | 15 | Poems of Passion/The Common Lot | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FPassion%2FThe%5FCommon%5FLot |
Of good in embryo. | 4 | 42 | Marsupial Bill | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marsupial%5FBill |
Soil’d on the surface, haply (if the touch | 8 | 21 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/"At Sempach" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F9%2F%22At%5FSempach%22 |
Yet let this thought thy tigrish courage pass: | 8 | 945 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
And all these dreams but wearied me the more. | 9 | 2,308 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
'O, Joe, don't help to kill so fine a man; | 10 | 616 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
Sleep and rest my little darling | 6 | 97 | The Soul Of A Century/The water sprite | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FThe%5Fwater%5Fsprite |
That, under Thee, we may possess | 6 | 21 | The Children's Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChildren%27s%5FSong |
Wither'd at dew so sweet and virulent; | 7 | 147 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
The city crushed him, | 4 | 8 | Translations from the Chinese/A Pattern in the Mud | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FA%5FPattern%5Fin%5Fthe%5FMud |
Wrapt in the costly furs, and silks, and laces, | 9 | 13 | Poems of Cheer/Nothing But Stones | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FNothing%5FBut%5FStones |
Because I sought it far from men, | 7 | 96 | Naulahka (headings) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Naulahka%5F%28headings%29 |
Ah she doth depart | 4 | 4 | I told my love | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I%5Ftold%5Fmy%5Flove |
When the green was showing on tree and hedge, | 9 | 2 | Poems of Cheer/Unrest | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FUnrest |
'Mid sweltering heat the shoots bear seed—Can ought here from its slumber cease? | 13 | 10 | An Anthology of Modern Bohemian Poetry/Moravian Landscape | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FModern%5FBohemian%5FPoetry%2FMoravian%5FLandscape |
Much study, and some talent, day by day, | 8 | 2,514 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
Since they whose muses have the highest flown | 8 | 10 | 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 |
And feel my flames augmented manifold? | 6 | 8 | My Love Is Like to Ice | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FLove%5FIs%5FLike%5Fto%5FIce |
As well as those by Christian made and Jew; | 9 | 121 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
And higher thoughts higher existence crave. | 6 | 24 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839/Colgong on the Ganges | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1839%2FColgong%5Fon%5Fthe%5FGanges |
And black are the waters that sparkled so green. | 9 | 81 | Jungle Books (headings) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jungle%5FBooks%5F%28headings%29 |
To each and all who so had sorrowed | 8 | 91 | A Little Child's Monument/In the Alps | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FIn%5Fthe%5FAlps |
The bells chimed Holy, Holy, Holy; | 6 | 532 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear | 9 | 7 | Mutability (Wordsworth) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mutability%5F%28Wordsworth%29 |
A fryar whom she thought a saint,came there to lodge that night, | 12 | 135 | Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy |
F'om one dat raaly needs to eat. | 7 | 32 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/De Way T'ings Come | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FDe%5FWay%5FT%27ings%5FCome |
Cheves slowlie on, and then embollen clangs, | 7 | 37 | An Excelente Balade of Charitie | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FExcelente%5FBalade%5Fof%5FCharitie |
Not understood. | 2 | 15 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/Not Understood | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FNot%5FUnderstood |
hyrstedne hrofhalgum tunglum | 3 | 1,147 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
There was a youth called Romeo, | 6 | 7 | An Anthology of Australian Verse/Players | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FPlayers |
That is at least one definite "false note." | 8 | 36 | Prufrock and Other Observations/Portrait of a Lady | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPortrait%5Fof%5Fa%5FLady |
Our darling, glorious, health-rosed, | 4 | 85 | A Little Child's Monument/Music and the Child | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FMusic%5Fand%5Fthe%5FChild |
Forsaken are ye?—so was he,— | 5 | 32 | The Defection of the Disciples | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDefection%5Fof%5Fthe%5FDisciples |
They wave:—from out their fragrant tops | 6 | 24 | Valley of Unrest | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Valley%5Fof%5FUnrest |
His sense that no one else was dressed. | 8 | 466 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
Whether in Eden bowers Thy welcome voice | 7 | 1,805 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Poor layman I, for sacred rites unfit. | 7 | 1,092 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
For he has my destruction wrought,as you shall understand. | 9 | 250 | Merry piper, or, The popish fryar & boy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Merry%5Fpiper%2C%5For%2C%5FThe%5Fpopish%5Ffryar%5F%26%5Fboy |
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground. | 10 | 40 | Mountain Interval/Birches | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FBirches |
gargewinnes. þær on greot gefeoll | 5 | 307 | Poem of Judith | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poem%5Fof%5FJudith |
And all the sun seemed poured on me,— | 8 | 15 | Rosemary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rosemary |
We can but strew fresh flowers upon the grave. | 9 | 8 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1715/Buried | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1715%2FBuried |
“Can’t a man speak of his own child he’s lost?” | 10 | 37 | North of Boston/Home Burial | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FHome%5FBurial |
My garden makes a desert spot; | 6 | 21 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Poet and His Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FPoet%5Fand%5FHis%5FSong |
Julian (aside.) How true love's memory is!— | 7 | 38 | Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Scene 1 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FScene%5F1 |
And in the ghostly palm-trees the sleepy tune | 8 | 10 | Trade Winds | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Trade%5FWinds |
Betwixt two marble shafts:—there they reposed, | 6 | 416 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
But the mandrakes, and toadstools, and docks, and darnels, | 9 | 291 | 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 |
From the old man come back to the old swimmin'-hole. | 10 | 16 | The Old Swimmin' Hole | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FOld%5FSwimmin%27%5FHole |
Eyes the headlong torrent leaping — | 6 | 22 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1647/Elf-King's Youngest Daughter | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F128%2FIssue%5F1647%2FElf%2DKing%27s%5FYoungest%5FDaughter |
The Prophet watched for one dear glance | 7 | 3,475 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
But the man to beat old Erin's best | 8 | 41 | Songs of Action/A Ballad of the Ranks | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FAction%2FA%5FBallad%5Fof%5Fthe%5FRanks |
On Stages play'd by Mountebanks, | 5 | 154 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
Who fell that day beneath his ire: | 7 | 847 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
Broiled, dried-up, juiceless as the dusty bones | 7 | 10 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1629/The Swine-herd of Gadara | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F126%2FIssue%5F1629%2FThe%5FSwine%2Dherd%5Fof%5FGadara |
Some — give trouble for half a year. | 8 | 14 | A Death-Bed (Kipling) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FDeath%2DBed%5F%28Kipling%29 |
With joyous hearts and skipping feet. | 6 | 64 | St. John's Eve (Kochanowski) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29 |
I feel in my heart it were better for meTo double the risk of rejection, | 15 | 7 | Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3813/The Wiser Choice | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Punch%2FVolume%5F147%2FIssue%5F3813%2FThe%5FWiser%5FChoice |
Was stained one moment by a flush of red. | 9 | 1,855 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
Whereon grim phantoms went and came: | 6 | 40 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/Sir Tristem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F6%2FSir%5FTristem |
To the deep wells of light; | 6 | 76 | The Blessed Damozel (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlessed%5FDamozel%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29 |
Because I oft in dark abstracted guise | 7 | 367 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
And gave her hand to the stranger knight. | 8 | 46 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/The lay of the lady and the hound | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FThe%5Flay%5Fof%5Fthe%5Flady%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fhound |
When I sat 'neath a strange roof-tree | 7 | 49 | From Retrospection | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From%5FRetrospection |
Truth shall rise over the militant drum, | 7 | 18 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Conquerors | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FConquerors |
For we played Molongo cricket – and M'Dougal topped the score! | 11 | 81 | How M'Dougal Topped the Score | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FM%27Dougal%5FTopped%5Fthe%5FScore |
And on the instant from beyond away | 7 | 213 | The Wanderer (Masefield) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderer%5F%28Masefield%29 |
Have the sweetest of features and names. | 7 | 40 | Bill the Bullock-Driver | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bill%5Fthe%5FBullock%2DDriver |
Came up from the swamps in the run. | 8 | 42 | Camped by the Creek | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Camped%5Fby%5Fthe%5FCreek |
A crone of sixty years is one, | 7 | 13 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/The plague of Elliant | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F1%2FThe%5Fplague%5Fof%5FElliant |
Thy song is sorrowful as winds | 6 | 45 | Landon in The New Monthly 1835/Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1835%2FStanzas%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FMrs%5FHemans |
Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard. | 10 | 13 | North of Boston/The Generations of Men | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FGenerations%5Fof%5FMen |
What we behold is censured by our eyes. | 8 | 8 | Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Who%5FEver%5FLoved%2C%5FThat%5FLoved%5FNot%5Fat%5FFirst%5FSight |
In that unmeaning arbitrary way. | 5 | 379 | Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall |
You broke the rules, and if you choose to scatter | 10 | 372 | Dauber | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber |
And o'er his beating fingers went, | 6 | 549 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
With a heart for any fate; | 6 | 33 | Voices of the Night/A Psalm of Life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Voices%5Fof%5Fthe%5FNight%2FA%5FPsalm%5Fof%5FLife |
Or seige unseen in heaven reflects its beams, | 8 | 535 | The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming |
“It’s good luck when you move in to begin | 9 | 100 | Mountain Interval/In the Home Stretch | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mountain%5FInterval%2FIn%5Fthe%5FHome%5FStretch |
Lends not his tender aid! O! Save me dear | 9 | 115 | Sarangadhara | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sarangadhara |
Re-echo from the hill. | 4 | 52 | Jim's Whip | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jim%27s%5FWhip |
In the purple failing light, | 5 | 2 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Corn-song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FCorn%2Dsong |
Call out your forces!—sure there 's need!— | 7 | 60 | Poems Sigourney 1827/The Comet of 1825 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5FSigourney%5F1827%2FThe%5FComet%5Fof%5F1825 |
In their own quiet glade should sleep | 7 | 2,547 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Motionless pillars of the brazen heaven;-- | 6 | 16 | Summer Wind | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Summer%5FWind |
What 's dat stan'in' by de fence? | 7 | 8 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Delinquent | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FDelinquent |
My heart was not so heavy then | 7 | 19 | The Bluebell (Anne Brontë) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBluebell%5F%28Anne%5FBront%C3%AB%29 |
Where each blossom her addresses | 5 | 32 | Commonweal/Vol. 3/Number 12/Poems of Brazil | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commonweal%2FVol%2E%5F3%2FNumber%5F12%2FPoems%5Fof%5FBrazil |
"Oh, the skies they are blue, the fields are green, | 10 | 10 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Two Songs | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTwo%5FSongs |
But trace not o'er the former way, | 7 | 3,208 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Hast thou forgot, | 3 | 11 | Alienage | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alienage |
But timber brought us to grief at last; | 8 | 74 | The Story of Mongrel Grey | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FStory%5Fof%5FMongrel%5FGrey |
Swiftly he sails . . . as a stork in flight, | 11 | 131 | May (Mácha) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29 |
With canopies of purple and of gold! | 7 | 52 | The Creek of the Four Graves | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCreek%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFour%5FGraves |
Wisely forgetful! O’er the ocean swell | 6 | 143 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281834%29 |
Like thunder they fall on the anvil, and lo! | 9 | 5 | Bohemian legends and other poems/Smith's Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FSmith%27s%5FSong |
The topaz fire of votive urns. | 6 | 25 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/The Coal Picker | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FThe%5FCoal%5FPicker |
Were taken up, not dead, but lam'd: | 7 | 1,119 | British Wonders | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/British%5FWonders |
He tramples on earth, or tosses on high | 8 | 768 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
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