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2. "Demurest of the Tabby kind" | 6 | 5 | Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5Fa%5FFavourite%5FCat%2C%5FDrowned%5Fin%5Fa%5FTub%5Fof%5FGold%5FFishes |
And cry'd, my dear, if you will join | 8 | 32 | Care and Generosity | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Care%5Fand%5FGenerosity |
Saw this with pain, so arguing a want | 8 | 429 | The Poetical Works of John Keats/Lamia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FJohn%5FKeats%2FLamia |
A man well known among the widows, | 7 | 64 | The Works of Henry Fielding/Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, Modernised In Burlesque Verse | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FPart%5Fof%5FJuvenal%27s%5FSixth%5FSatire%2C%5FModernised%5FIn%5FBurlesque%5FVerse |
Lay all their wrathful thunderbolts aside, | 6 | 20 | 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 |
Her raiment was a strong man’s spoil;Upon a table by a bed | 12 | 55 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/Aholibah | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FAholibah |
Of the foundations and the building up | 7 | 5 | To William Wordsworth (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FWilliam%5FWordsworth%5F%28unsourced%29 |
Thank God! it is Maud—she is waiting me there, | 9 | 24 | The Mowing | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMowing |
Underneath the chestnuts straying,(Trembling fans o'erhead,) | 6 | 3 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1720/May Memories | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1720%2FMay%5FMemories |
To take them as I did? but something jarr'd; | 9 | 72 | Edwin Morris; or, the Lake | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Edwin%5FMorris%3B%5For%2C%5Fthe%5FLake |
Of home-born, heart-felt comfort, rooted strong | 6 | 49 | To a Shred of Linen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FShred%5Fof%5FLinen |
And to our tale with ardour flee.Beyond the hills where lang the billies, | 13 | 70 | Ancient history of three bonnets | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets |
Reproving thankless man, who fears | 5 | 384 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
The hero of my early day-dreams: though | 7 | 1,900 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
One moves in silence by the stream,With sad, yet watchful eyes, | 11 | 5 | The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 2/The Two Armies | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F2%2FThe%5FTwo%5FArmies |
In sooth, that was a stirring time | 7 | 13 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832/Pile of Fouldrey Castle | 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%2FPile%5Fof%5FFouldrey%5FCastle |
Who may be truly said to live the most; | 9 | 10 | To a Bullet-Pierced Skull | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fa%5FBullet%2DPierced%5FSkull |
Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, | 3 | 107 | The Blessed Damozel (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlessed%5FDamozel%5F%28Dante%5FGabriel%5FRossetti%29 |
Let every instrument of music play, | 6 | 118 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
Return those rosy hours which here I used to see! | 10 | 13 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet XCII | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2C%5FThe%5FSecond%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FXCII |
Thoughts of strange kindness and forgotten peace | 7 | 31 | Saint Valentine's Day | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saint%5FValentine%27s%5FDay |
Mine own executor, and legacy. | 5 | 8 | The Legacy (John Donne) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLegacy%5F%28John%5FDonne%29 |
His very hopes to please her move disdain. | 8 | 80 | The Works of Henry Fielding/To A Friend on the Choice Of A Wife | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FTo%5FA%5FFriend%5Fon%5Fthe%5FChoice%5FOf%5FA%5FWife |
The sweet Night draws me--whispers, "Look within!" | 7 | 14 | Poems of Cheer/Night | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FNight |
Although it fall from roof and fence, | 7 | 125 | St. John's Eve (Kochanowski) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FJohn%27s%5FEve%5F%28Kochanowski%29 |
Wherefore through them is Freedom sure; | 6 | 29 | The Empire and the century/The Heritage | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEmpire%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fcentury%2FThe%5FHeritage |
Are we not formed with passions like your own? | 9 | 26 | Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle%5Ffrom%5FMrs%2E%5FYonge%5Fto%5FHer%5FHusband |
Hung with many a rainbow crown; | 6 | 150 | The Curse of Kehama/The Enchantress | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCurse%5Fof%5FKehama%2FThe%5FEnchantress |
For fruit of all things strong, and bloom of fair, | 10 | 14 | Song to Oblivion | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fto%5FOblivion |
Would hurt me, though I knew no reason why. 330 | 10 | 1,515 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
Some have amus'd the dull, sad years of life 180 | 10 | 180 | 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 |
And love was shed from every tree, | 7 | 19 | Buffalo Creek | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Buffalo%5FCreek |
No ſolid fame ſhall grace, no true renown, | 8 | 212 | Slavery, a poem | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Slavery%2C%5Fa%5Fpoem |
I bade farewell to home with secret joy, | 8 | 2,335 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
And as exemplar to all coming ages | 7 | 33 | Modern Czech Poetry/Cromwell at the corpse of Charles I. | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern%5FCzech%5FPoetry%2FCromwell%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fcorpse%5Fof%5FCharles%5FI%2E |
The hero's idols sav'd by him remain; | 7 | 20 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/On Reading Dryden's Virgil | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FOn%5FReading%5FDryden%27s%5FVirgil |
I labor hard, and toil and sweat,While others dream within the dell; | 12 | 18 | 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 |
Sang the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò. | 3 | 109 | The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCourtship%5Fof%5Fthe%5FYonghy%2DBonghy%2DB%C3%B2 |
I FOUND[2] them blind: I taught them how to see; | 10 | 2 | On F—— & S—— | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FF%E2%80%94%E2%80%94%5F%26%5FS%E2%80%94%E2%80%94 |
To a frown, my dear Jenny, how far I may go. | 11 | 12 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/The private view | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FThe%5Fprivate%5Fview |
Unto the humble delver of the sod, | 7 | 2,353 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
For Fog and Fate no charm is found | 8 | 96 | Epitaphs of the War | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epitaphs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FWar |
For Christian mothers, while they moan | 6 | 195 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
They would not rest in settled land: | 7 | 114 | Song of the Future (Paterson) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFuture%5F%28Paterson%29 |
Near by me was a lover ladand the sweetness was on him. | 12 | 2 | The Eleventh Moon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEleventh%5FMoon |
All his golden state, | 4 | 26 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838/The Kings of Golconda | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1838%2FThe%5FKings%5Fof%5FGolconda |
’Tis only war grown miserly. | 5 | 60 | Poems of Sidney Lanier/The Symphony | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FThe%5FSymphony |
Strong music, that soliciting spell, force back | 7 | 11 | The Destiny of Nations (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDestiny%5Fof%5FNations%5F%28unsourced%29 |
I must bundle my wallets and walk. | 7 | 20 | Fortuna | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fortuna |
The desert's lonely space was all | 6 | 248 | Hagar and Ishmael (J. M. L.) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hagar%5Fand%5FIshmael%5F%28J%2E%5FM%2E%5FL%2E%29 |
As dew drops fall in sparkling golden streaks. | 8 | 28 | The Soul Of A Century/A quiet pain | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FA%5Fquiet%5Fpain |
"How does Bradstreet rate his standing?" | 6 | 6 | Poems of Cheer/To marry or not to marry? | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FTo%5Fmarry%5For%5Fnot%5Fto%5Fmarry%3F |
“It rests with us always to cut her off.” | 9 | 192 | North of Boston/The Generations of Men | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FGenerations%5Fof%5FMen |
Fly thou with me for play!" | 6 | 7 | A Little Child's Monument/Mountain Lyric | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FMountain%5FLyric |
From the mild Son of Man. | 6 | 1,053 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
And we walk together as two friends may, | 8 | 25 | Poems of Cheer/Comrades | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FComrades |
The moon sends down to kiss thy quiet waves; | 9 | 8 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834/Coniston Water | 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%2FConiston%5FWater |
Hit and hard hit! The blow went homeThe muffled, knocking stroke— | 11 | 18 | McClure's Magazine/Volume 11/Number 1/The Destroyers | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/McClure%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F11%2FNumber%5F1%2FThe%5FDestroyers |
Friend tells not such to friend—the thoughts which rent | 9 | 1,425 | The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary |
And form genteel, were all in vain, | 7 | 8 | On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fa%5FGoldfinch%5FStarved%5Fto%5FDeath%5Fin%5Fhis%5FCage |
Dat dog's talked his level bes'. | 6 | 40 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Hunting Song | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FHunting%5FSong |
Are sands upon the Red sea shore, | 7 | 13 | Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mock%5Fon%2C%5FMock%5Fon%2C%5FVoltaire%2C%5FRousseau |
(Old Sheffield), and he owned each state | 7 | 746 | Reynard The Fox Part I | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI |
Then stern and fast | 4 | 22 | Australia Militant | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Australia%5FMilitant |
What can it mean?—you kneel beside me,Laying your dear head upon my breast, | 13 | 4 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8/Song (What can it mean?—that glance so tender) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F8%2FSong%5F%28What%5Fcan%5Fit%5Fmean%3F%E2%80%94that%5Fglance%5Fso%5Ftender%29 |
And all the lit confusion of our days-- | 8 | 4 | Chartres Windows | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chartres%5FWindows |
My heart has taken from the torchful leaf | 8 | 14 | Autumn Orchards | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Autumn%5FOrchards |
To be almost towering to the sky. | 7 | 4 | The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRailway%5FBridge%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSilvery%5FTay |
When you have turned the lights all down; | 8 | 16 | Ching Chong | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ching%5FChong |
Yea even that which mischief meant most harm, | 8 | 549 | Comus and other poems/Comus | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus |
If distant, thou dost rise a star | 7 | 21 | The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 2/Myrtle Flowers | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F2%2FMyrtle%5FFlowers |
Lights loveliness in all he shines upon,— | 7 | 28 | The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches/The Oriental Nosegay | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTroubadour%3B%5FCatalogue%5Fof%5FPictures%2C%5Fand%5FHistorical%5FSketches%2FThe%5FOriental%5FNosegay |
Observ'd as prodigies, and soon reclaim'd. | 6 | 524 | 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 |
(I mind me of two tender blue eyes, hid | 9 | 21 | Poems of Cheer/Helena | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FHelena |
Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams? | 7 | 44 | God (Derzhavin) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/God%5F%28Derzhavin%29 |
Fearful and weak, and born 'mid suffering;— | 7 | 27 | Landon in The New Monthly 1834/The Future | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5F1834%2FThe%5FFuture |
And 'tis and ever was my wish and way | 9 | 21 | Fæsulan Idyl | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/F%C3%A6sulan%5FIdyl |
Like living jets of crimson flame. | 6 | 84 | Christmas Morning in the Bush | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Christmas%5FMorning%5Fin%5Fthe%5FBush |
So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, | 10 | 18 | Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni (unsourced) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5Fbefore%5FSun%2Drise%2C%5Fin%5Fthe%5FVale%5Fof%5FChamouni%5F%28unsourced%29 |
Your house about your ears. | 5 | 16 | The Modern Patriot | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FModern%5FPatriot |
(Spurr'd with Love's spur, though gall'd and shortly rein'd | 9 | 1,859 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
Spread on the roadway, | 4 | 1 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/The Cyclists | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FThe%5FCyclists |
Darkens the inward eyesight of the mind, | 7 | 55 | A Funeral Elegy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FFuneral%5FElegy |
And the days pass by like a wayward tune, | 9 | 80 | 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 |
Fell'd the tall trees from the incumber'd soil: | 8 | 31 | 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 |
Let us stay here in this secluded place | 8 | 11 | Maurine And Other Poems/“Love is Enough” | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2F%E2%80%9CLove%5Fis%5FEnough%E2%80%9D |
But the least swerving from their rule's too much, | 9 | 72 | The Choice (Pomfret) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChoice%5F%28Pomfret%29 |
Her patient vigils! Many a weary night | 7 | 185 | 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 |
Flexible, changeable, vague, and multiform, and doubtful. | 7 | 105 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FV |
Down pourd the heavy rain | 5 | 17 | I Heard an Angel | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I%5FHeard%5Fan%5FAngel |
though He provided us with lasting good.” | 7 | 58 | The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Penance of Adam and Eve | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FPenance%5Fof%5FAdam%5Fand%5FEve |
The bell was rung, the nags came out their quality to try, | 12 | 5 | Not On It | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Not%5FOn%5FIt |
For the to-morrow he ne'er feels a fear, | 8 | 38 | The Mole-Catcher | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FMole%2DCatcher |
’Er spars may lift an’ ’er keel can shift, | 9 | 86 | Lost and Given Over | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lost%5Fand%5FGiven%5FOver |
And drove tumult and war away | 6 | 5 | 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 |
Mine eyes may scarce arrive at thy still light! | 9 | 8 | A Little Child's Monument/Vale! | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FVale%21 |
To whome I dare avowe, that I have served as well, | 11 | 11 | The Divorce of a Lover | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDivorce%5Fof%5Fa%5FLover |
Save what the ploughshare gives the ground. | 7 | 32 | The Country's Recreations | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCountry%27s%5FRecreations |
Unceasing, Neverending, Eternal. | 3 | 17 | Eternity (Howard) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eternity%5F%28Howard%29 |
Comes melody that thrills the soul like pain. | 8 | 4 | Saint Cecilia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saint%5FCecilia |
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