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Pensive to foster cares, careless of joys; | 7 | 742 | St. Peter's Complaint | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint |
On the obscure and fluctuating main, | 6 | 8 | Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet LXXX | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2C%5FThe%5FSecond%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLXXX |
On the floor the poor mother groped madly about the dead child for a spark | 15 | 81 | The Last Bullet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLast%5FBullet |
To tower up in completeness, trophy-like, | 6 | 357 | Balaustion's Adventure/V | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FV |
The waves cleave not to him nor he to the waves; | 11 | 24 | Ode to Youth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FYouth |
Losing every thought but this; | 5 | 19 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Happiness | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FHappiness |
The voice that from the glory came | 7 | 6,142 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
(If the word be not too bold,) | 7 | 1,439 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Till men despise the game they started | 7 | 452 | The Everlasting Mercy | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FEverlasting%5FMercy |
For ſic a meikle ſaul as yours, | 7 | 315 | Ancient history of three bonnets | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets |
Up! Men and brothers, be noble, be earnest! | 8 | 21 | Emancipation (Dunbar) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Emancipation%5F%28Dunbar%29 |
How, at lawn-tennis could we play, Young folks, like you. | 10 | 8 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 131/Issue 1689/A Lay of Lawn-Tennis | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F131%2FIssue%5F1689%2FA%5FLay%5Fof%5FLawn%2DTennis |
Instructed day by day? | 4 | 5,609 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Then turned her loose in the timber back of the seven-mile tank. | 12 | 19 | In the Stable | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fthe%5FStable |
Devoid of science, wit or grace. | 6 | 35 | Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse/The Giving of the Bible to the Esquimaux | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral%5FPieces%2C%5Fin%5FProse%5Fand%5FVerse%2FThe%5FGiving%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBible%5Fto%5Fthe%5FEsquimaux |
The man feels least, as more inur'd than she | 9 | 387 | 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 |
Who hear not for the beating of their hearts. | 9 | 417 | Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf |
Some fear to meet His dreadful eye, To hear His awful word; | 12 | 9 | Littell's Living Age/Volume 132/Issue 1699/After Life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F132%2FIssue%5F1699%2FAfter%5FLife |
'Ere noon shall fade that laughing gleam | 7 | 7 | To ------ (Brontë) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5F%2D%2D%2D%2D%2D%2D%5F%28Bront%C3%AB%29 |
Said, ‘Helen, little Helen, frail and fair.’ | 7 | 2,045 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
And burning up with shame. | 5 | 8 | What a Wretched Woman Said to Me | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What%5Fa%5FWretched%5FWoman%5FSaid%5Fto%5FMe |
Thy tears express Night's native moisture right. | 7 | 1,832 | Astrophel and Stella | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella |
That which I crave and know is banned. | 8 | 5 | Not Understanding | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Not%5FUnderstanding |
He is come down to break their chain; | 8 | 1,416 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
And grateful peasants hail’d the op’ning year; | 7 | 162 | Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme |
His executive power must I despise? | 6 | 3 | Rafael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rafael%5FSublime%5FMajestic%5FGraceful%5FWise |
My arm resting upon your arm. | 6 | 52 | Ancient Egyptian Love Poems | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5FEgyptian%5FLove%5FPoems |
Stretching west twice the length of the trees, when a horror of something that crept, | 15 | 72 | The Last Bullet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FLast%5FBullet |
For in the panting period of his reign, | 8 | 7 | Kindness (Dunbar) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kindness%5F%28Dunbar%29 |
Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, | 9 | 4,135 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
. . . . . | 5 | 601 | Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fragments%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMystery%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFall |
Silver, in the crude and fashioned, pots of old Arica Bronze, | 11 | 23 | Spanish Waters | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Spanish%5FWaters |
And the foremost, if fearful, may vainly try | 8 | 981 | The Siege of Corinth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth |
While others, more sensitive, hasten | 5 | 43 | In re a Gentleman, One | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In%5Fre%5Fa%5FGentleman%2C%5FOne |
Dance with new fury in demoniac rout. | 7 | 234 | Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Psychopompos%3A%5FA%5FTale%5Fin%5FRhyme |
Closing o’er conscious eyes opaquest shutters, | 6 | 36 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/Fairy children | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F5%2FFairy%5Fchildren |
Cannot be compared to movie reels in tins Flashing fairy filmplays, ’Frisco to New York! | 15 | 2 | Argosy All-Story Weekly/Volume 186/Issue 5/Cinemagic | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Argosy%5FAll%2DStory%5FWeekly%2FVolume%5F186%2FIssue%5F5%2FCinemagic |
Though stricken with sore sorrow, hid the stroke, | 8 | 158 | Balaustion's Adventure/IV | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIV |
drugon and dydondrihtnes willan, | 4 | 170 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best | 9 | 10 | Poems &c. Upon Several Occasions/When I consider how my light is spent | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5F%26c%2E%5FUpon%5FSeveral%5FOccasions%2FWhen%5FI%5Fconsider%5Fhow%5Fmy%5Flight%5Fis%5Fspent |
* * * | 3 | 5 | Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Great%5FMen%5F%26%5FFools%5Fdo%5Foften%5Fme%5FInspire |
And if my fate should show the sign, | 8 | 77 | The Never-Never Country | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FNever%2DNever%5FCountry |
Thus hence we something more may take | 7 | 43 | At His Grave | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At%5FHis%5FGrave |
No bugle-call can arouse them - | 6 | 103 | Poems of Cheer/After the Battles are over | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAfter%5Fthe%5FBattles%5Fare%5Fover |
They pity us, the Gods, but naught forgive, | 8 | 6 | The Gods Remember | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGods%5FRemember |
White billowing sails that fill and flee | 7 | 7 | One Blood Strain | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/One%5FBlood%5FStrain |
And with the years, my longing only grew | 8 | 42 | The Soul Of A Century/King Abgar | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FKing%5FAbgar |
Thy wasted form, thy hurried steps I view, | 8 | 75 | Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Monody%5Fon%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FChatterton%5F%281834%29 |
Doomed angels must, when pearly gates above | 7 | 1,765 | Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine |
She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, | 8 | 49 | The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 3 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F3 |
oh, how the wind does blow! | 6 | 10 | Over the River and Through the Wood | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Over%5Fthe%5FRiver%5Fand%5FThrough%5Fthe%5FWood |
But these are not his glory. Man, 'tis true, | 9 | 558 | 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 |
on ferhðcofanfæste genearwod | 3 | 3,124 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
You heard my chant, but did not comprehend | 8 | 121 | Poems of Experience/The New Hawaiian Girl | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FNew%5FHawaiian%5FGirl |
The politicians' greatest essentials. | 4 | 14 | Political Alphabet | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Political%5FAlphabet |
'A speck?' 'Ay, ay; 'tis not enough to pain me; | 10 | 44 | Fables (La Fontaine, tr. Wright)/The Wolf and the Dog | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fables%5F%28La%5FFontaine%2C%5Ftr%2E%5FWright%29%2FThe%5FWolf%5Fand%5Fthe%5FDog |
(Ah, could I weep—my deep-drawn tearsAre still and sunk mine eye,) | 11 | 6 | To My Infant Daughter "Ada" | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FMy%5FInfant%5FDaughter%5F%22Ada%22 |
When young and old in circle | 6 | 647 | Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lays%5Fof%5FAncient%5FRome%2FHoratius |
And kept it close beside him until night. | 8 | 80 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/A Tale of Starvation | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FA%5FTale%5Fof%5FStarvation |
I am always finding - You. | 6 | 24 | Poems of Cheer/Artist's life | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FArtist%27s%5Flife |
I'm in love with you, Irish Colleen, | 7 | 11 | My Irish Colleen | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My%5FIrish%5FColleen |
And when they work me random wrong, as oftentimes hath been, | 11 | 20 | A Pilgrim's Way | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FPilgrim%27s%5FWay |
Lo, thou art as an hundred men | 7 | 253 | Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/The Masque of Queen Bersabe | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FThe%5FMasque%5Fof%5FQueen%5FBersabe |
I ask then, do I justly hate or no | 9 | 737 | Balaustion's Adventure/III | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIII |
When stars shall fall, and skies grow dark, | 8 | 52 | Farewell of the Soul to the Body | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Farewell%5Fof%5Fthe%5FSoul%5Fto%5Fthe%5FBody |
24 years a serf, | 4 | 1 | The Kobzar of the Ukraine | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FKobzar%5Fof%5Fthe%5FUkraine |
Dreams of a world, whose influence still | 7 | 94 | 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 |
To bid the skies that day could bid not shine, | 10 | 32 | Astrophel and Other Poems/Via Dolorosa | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FVia%5FDolorosa |
And kept apart for ever?' | 5 | 72 | Alexander and Zenobia | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alexander%5Fand%5FZenobia |
And it's there you'll see the pipers | 7 | 25 | The Galway Races | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGalway%5FRaces |
"We rigged up a tackle, a purchase, a sort of a shift, | 12 | 17 | Sing a Song o' Shipwreck | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sing%5Fa%5FSong%5Fo%27%5FShipwreck |
" Yoi do it, then! This is where he's been," | 10 | 999 | Reynard The Fox Part II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII |
But it might get broken out of doors, | 8 | 95 | Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/A Tale of Starvation | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FA%5FTale%5Fof%5FStarvation |
And Israel see the proud Egyptians pale And “dead on the sea-shore.” | 12 | 20 | Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/God help our men at sea | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FGod%5Fhelp%5Four%5Fmen%5Fat%5Fsea |
Pretend that Christ, (who came, we all agree, | 8 | 29 | Gotham (Churchill, 1764) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29 |
And 'scape forth since liberty is lever. | 7 | 8 | Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Farewell%5FLove%5Fand%5FAll%5FThy%5FLaws%5FForever |
We wish you a hearty welcome, | 6 | 149 | Poems of Cheer/After the Battles are over | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAfter%5Fthe%5FBattles%5Fare%5Fover |
And hew'd them link from link: then Albion's sons | 9 | 516 | 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 |
Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy,The heart-love of a child! | 12 | 6 | Rhyme? and Reason? | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rhyme%3F%5Fand%5FReason%3F |
A green turf lies before the door, | 7 | 17 | 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 |
And wish that I had been a Whore | 8 | 9 | An old maid early eer I knew | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5Fold%5Fmaid%5Fearly%5Feer%5FI%5Fknew |
To the lips of the lake in the sea-girt place. | 10 | 12 | Manly Lagoon | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manly%5FLagoon |
As on the bosom of th' aerial lawn | 8 | 4,161 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
Can I think of in time, to prevent half a moment of needless delay? | 14 | 68 | How He Died | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/How%5FHe%5FDied |
And good to goodness add: | 5 | 348 | A Song to David | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FSong%5Fto%5FDavid |
I see To-morrow's papers already on sale | 7 | 2 | Translations from the Chinese/Anticrastination | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translations%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FChinese%2FAnticrastination |
Then come to me, my silver veil, and sieve, | 9 | 38 | Shadow of Dreams | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shadow%5Fof%5FDreams |
to þe seceð?Me sægde ær | 5 | 3,177 | Gecyndbēc Lēoþ | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gecyndb%C4%93c%5FL%C4%93o%C3%BE |
Around the awful arches sweep, | 5 | 2,723 | The Christian Year | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear |
But they can hold their own at it; | 8 | 10 | The Wargeilah Handicap | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWargeilah%5FHandicap |
The softer virtues in his bosom shone; | 7 | 21 | The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/Elegy on the death of Gen. Montgomery | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FElegy%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fdeath%5Fof%5FGen%2E%5FMontgomery |
When the life of the land was threatened by the slaver's cruel greed, | 13 | 2 | The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Unsung Heroes | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FUnsung%5FHeroes |
His steed tossed head with fiery scorn, | 7 | 30 | A Vision of Youth | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FVision%5Fof%5FYouth |
"Ride, ride, lad, — ride for her sake!" he cried; — | 11 | 41 | Bannerman of Dandenong | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bannerman%5Fof%5FDandenong |
Stab or shoot, or be shot, by way of graceful attention. | 11 | 72 | The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto II | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FII |
Then God, in all His splendor, | 6 | 16 | The Black Riders & Other Lines/In heaven | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBlack%5FRiders%5F%26%5FOther%5FLines%2FIn%5Fheaven |
I could see her father, he was six feet tall. | 10 | 15 | The Galway Shawl | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FGalway%5FShawl |
Such as Venezia's wanderer,[3]Beloved of Kubla Khan. | 7 | 29 | Elfland | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elfland |
Her who still weeps with spongy eyes, | 7 | 6 | The Indifferent | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FIndifferent |
She fed them, and led them away, through tempest and tropical heat, | 12 | 24 | Caroline Chisholm (Kendall) | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Caroline%5FChisholm%5F%28Kendall%29 |
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