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Hoar with the frozen night-dews. Dismally
6
200
The Destiny of Nations (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDestiny%5Fof%5FNations%5F%28unsourced%29
And I think if I go with the ambulance I'm certain to find a show,
15
7
Driver Smith
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Driver%5FSmith
     As spouts a fountain in the court
7
598
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
And then alternate; with a sickly hope
7
428
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
God send vs alle good endyng!
6
282
The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
Vain I watch'd the gold orbs thronging
7
35
Revelation (Lovecraft)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Revelation%5F%28Lovecraft%29
The eyes are yours, that gave
6
204
A Book of Czech Verse/J. Wolker
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FBook%5Fof%5FCzech%5FVerse%2FJ%2E%5FWolker
To altar nor to image: sacrifice 2070
7
326
Balaustion's Adventure/IV
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Balaustion%27s%5FAdventure%2FIV
Matching their lily-white legs withthe clothes that they trod in the wash-tub!
12
121
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/2
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F2
She’s very young, and childhood’s days
6
13
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
Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee;
10
1
Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saltbush%5FBill%5Fon%5Fthe%5FPatriarchs
Moping along the streets, and cursing my day as I wandered,
11
91
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
   Broad-based upon her people's will,
5
35
To the Queen (Tennyson, 1851)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FQueen%5F%28Tennyson%2C%5F1851%29
Whose master's hand is cold, whose silver lyre unstrung.
9
114
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Adonais
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FPercy%5FBysshe%5FShelley%5F%28ed%2E%5FHutchinson%2C%5F1914%29%2FAdonais
  His carcass snug and tight.
5
13
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
They lifted the lovely lady high, As in the boat she lay;
12
43
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/The legend of St. Gabriel's
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F11%2FThe%5Flegend%5Fof%5FSt%2E%5FGabriel%27s
For sure no minutes bring us more content
8
31
The Choice (Pomfret)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChoice%5F%28Pomfret%29
Else they are all — the meanest things that are —
11
583
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
With heart and with brain we must build again
9
19
God's Crucible
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/God%27s%5FCrucible
Knocking the dust out with a stake.
7
19
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
And how later in the evening,
6
13
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Old Homestead
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FOld%5FHomestead
and luxury his bounteous table Spread.
6
36
Then She bore Pale desire/rearranged
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Then%5FShe%5Fbore%5FPale%5Fdesire%2Frearranged
His presence, who made all so fair, perceiv'd,
8
252
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
A gondola here, and a gondola there,
7
293
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
"So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
9
11
Prufrock and Other Observations/Portrait of a Lady
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prufrock%5Fand%5FOther%5FObservations%2FPortrait%5Fof%5Fa%5FLady
Deep thoughts that at thy will to being started,
9
7
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838/Felicia Hemans
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%2FFelicia%5FHemans
For never was it meant that we should be
9
71
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
For all, on horse or wheel or foot,
8
1,123
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
I'm looking at their blistered feet; young Jones
8
23
Counter-Attack and Other Poems/The Dream
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Counter%2DAttack%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FDream
Pray for souls of ghastly, sodden
6
15
The Wreck of Derry Castle
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWreck%5Fof%5FDerry%5FCastle
And knew my love spoke through their rhymes.
8
129
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Ione
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FIone
    That all may know him.
5
8
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/Honister Crag,—Cumberland
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FFisher%27s%5FDrawing%5FRoom%5FScrap%5FBook%2C%5F1835%2FHonister%5FCrag%2C%E2%80%94Cumberland
On souls that sin and earth forsook
7
1,032
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
      Nor seek to understand.
4
60
A Rolling Stone (Service)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FRolling%5FStone%5F%28Service%29
Her lee-rail dipped, he Struck, and something gave;
8
1,297
Dauber
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dauber
Imploring accent to the tomb, the sky;
7
153
Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems/A Spirit's Return
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAffections%2C%5Fwith%5FOther%5FPoems%2FA%5FSpirit%27s%5FReturn
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
9
179
An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FWoman%5Fin%5FThree%5FEpistles
Redeemed from Winter's deadening reign,
5
2
Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2/Lines written in Spring 1812
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s%5FMagazine%2FVolume%5F1%2FIssue%5F2%2FLines%5Fwritten%5Fin%5FSpring%5F1812
To her in whom for ages I had lain,
9
3
Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse/Walt Whitman
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anthology%5Fof%5FModern%5FSlavonic%5FLiterature%5Fin%5FProse%5Fand%5FVerse%2FWalt%5FWhitman
Ah! little dream our listless eyes
6
4,496
The Christian Year
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
Tears, sweat and blood on cheeks alight;
7
384
May (Mácha)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
Throw hither all your quaint enameled eyes,
7
127
Comus and other poems/Lycidas
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FLycidas
  Few are my years, but my griefs are not few,
10
2
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Phyllis
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FPhyllis
She was a married woman; 'tis convenient,
7
232
Beppo (Lord Byron)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
“The odor sweet of dying men"
6
13
Weird Tales/Volume 5/Issue 1/Two Crows
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird%5FTales%2FVolume%5F5%2FIssue%5F1%2FTwo%5FCrows
             Enter, and in its charmèd precincts stay
7
12
Memoirs of Anne C. L. Botta/To Juliette on her wedding day
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memoirs%5Fof%5FAnne%5FC%2E%5FL%2E%5FBotta%2FTo%5FJuliette%5Fon%5Fher%5Fwedding%5Fday
Upon the hill where once he used to come
9
40
The Soul Of A Century/A sun flower
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FA%5Fsun%5Fflower
Prepared to be the donor
5
201
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
And when affection's hand must loose its hold, And loving accents fail the death-dulled ear,
15
9
Littell's Living Age/Volume 130/Issue 1685/Hope
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F130%2FIssue%5F1685%2FHope
No, my friend, if you wish to be told, it was this above all things,
15
197
The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Amours de Voyage/Canto III
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoems%5Fand%5FProse%5FRemains%5Fof%5FArthur%5FHugh%5FClough%2FVolume%5F2%2FAmours%5Fde%5FVoyage%2FCanto%5FIII
   My Muse's thought engages.
4
4
Rover (Kendall)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rover%5F%28Kendall%29
There they yet may breathe awhile,
6
971
The Siege of Corinth
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
The moon was sad at a trust ill-kept;
8
33
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lover And The Moon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLover%5FAnd%5FThe%5FMoon
I’m thinkin’ of my baby
5
48
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems/The Ballad of Moll Magee
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWanderings%5Fof%5FOisin%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FBallad%5Fof%5FMoll%5FMagee
  Serene as death, in her silver chair.
7
26
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Lover And The Moon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FLover%5FAnd%5FThe%5FMoon
Rising with every step of the captive's weary stride.
9
537
May (Mácha)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
To sigh with sighing, sob with sobbing trees;
8
552
Gotham (Churchill, 1764)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gotham%5F%28Churchill%2C%5F1764%29
Hath streak’d the East with rosy light,
7
10
Songs of the Pixies (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FPixies%5F%28unsourced%29
On rocks a goat could scarcely climb, steep as the walls of Troy,
13
21
Johnny Boer
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Johnny%5FBoer
      Shone straightway down that leafy lane,
6
10
Poems of Sidney Lanier/A Song of Eternity in Time
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FSidney%5FLanier%2FA%5FSong%5Fof%5FEternity%5Fin%5FTime
I saw a mermaid sporting in the bay,
8
1
Sailor (Howard)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sailor%5F%28Howard%29
Also you as well as me.
6
59
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
Such usage in heaven will never do well.
8
4
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1826)/Songs of Experience/The Little Vagabond
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5FInnocence%5Fand%5Fof%5FExperience%5F%281826%29%2FSongs%5Fof%5FExperience%2FThe%5FLittle%5FVagabond
And my heart will travel back again
7
61
Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900/Lament of the Irish Emigrant
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oxford%5FBook%5Fof%5FEnglish%5FVerse%5F1250%2D1900%2FLament%5Fof%5Fthe%5FIrish%5FEmigrant
    Far off in some diviner air,
6
54
The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1/Number 5/The Nest
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F1%2FNumber%5F5%2FThe%5FNest
The Willows, and the Hazle Copses green,
7
39
Comus and other poems/Lycidas
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FLycidas
How stubborn my dead heart I find Insensible as stone?
10
9
The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker/A Hymn
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPosthumous%5FWorks%5Fof%5FAnn%5FEliza%5FBleecker%2FA%5FHymn
Like sudden music; more than this ye bring,
8
10
Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine Volume 43 1835/Thoughts During Sickness VI. Flowers
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Felicia%5FHemans%5Fin%5FThe%5FNew%5FMonthly%5FMagazine%5FVolume%5F43%5F1835%2FThoughts%5FDuring%5FSickness%5FVI%2E%5FFlowers
With which heav'n rang, when ev'ry star, in haste
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818
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
    Thy rugged girth the waists of fifty Eastern girls.
9
12
The Yellow Book/Volume 1/Tree-Worship
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FYellow%5FBook%2FVolume%5F1%2FTree%2DWorship
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
8
2
On Monsieur's Departure
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5FMonsieur%27s%5FDeparture
I am weary of birth and battle,
7
1
Tides (Howard)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tides%5F%28Howard%29
A godly benison this land of ours.
7
54
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
Form the first simple garland—Now no more
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5
Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition/Sonnet LXXVIII
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elegiac%5FSonnets%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2C%5FVolume%5F2%2C%5FThe%5FSecond%5FEdition%2FSonnet%5FLXXVIII
Break me! or drown me! let me die!
8
66
A Little Child's Monument/Nature and the Dead
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FNature%5Fand%5Fthe%5FDead
Great-chested, muscled in the slats,
5
960
Reynard The Fox Part I
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
And strengthened with addition wild and strange,
7
92
Saturn (Smith)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saturn%5F%28Smith%29
     On rode they to the Forum,
6
781
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
  As pure and free;
4
10
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/On the Death of W. C.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FOn%5Fthe%5FDeath%5Fof%5FW%2E%5FC%2E
Wake hidden thoughts--a longing half a dread--
7
7
The Rutted Road
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRutted%5FRoad
That from the thought and from the will
8
28
Ode (1850) (Sargent)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5F%281850%29%5F%28Sargent%29
Cowardly art thou and timid? they rise to provoke thee against them,
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3
Hope evermore and believe!
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hope%5Fevermore%5Fand%5Fbelieve%21
     When birds sang out their mellow lay,
7
18
Woods in Winter
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woods%5Fin%5FWinter
In school-days that are deem'd of yore;And who will venture to chide us,
13
11
Verses Inspired by my "Old Black Pipe"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5FInspired%5Fby%5Fmy%5F%22Old%5FBlack%5FPipe%22
Who, glancing o'er the books they bought,
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33
Marcus Varro
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marcus%5FVarro
‘‘Maiden beloved, and Delegate of Heaven!
6
451
The Destiny of Nations (unsourced)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FDestiny%5Fof%5FNations%5F%28unsourced%29
    Or, capriciously still,
3
258
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems/Al Aaraaf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al%5FAaraaf%2C%5FTamerlane%5Fand%5FMinor%5FPoems%2FAl%5FAaraaf
Lawny dells and slopes of summer, dazzling stream and radiant tree!
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16
Hy-Brasil
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hy%2DBrasil
Where once her finger points the way,
7
923
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
My pale cheeks glow — the big drops start —
10
14
To Fortune
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5FFortune
She for whom so ill I sped,
7
122
The Curse of Kehama/The Enchantress
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCurse%5Fof%5FKehama%2FThe%5FEnchantress
Where day never shuts his eye,
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892
Comus and other poems/Comus
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Comus%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FComus
Spring has a rushing sound, and Summer sends
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9
January 1, 1829
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/January%5F1%2C%5F1829
    Pays for my perfect bulb a price no less
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3
The Tulip
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FTulip
For which the king bade hang him presently.
8
442
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne)/St. Dorothy
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fand%5FBallads%5F%28Swinburne%29%2FSt%2E%5FDorothy
What could I wish that I possess not here? 690
10
690
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
Ye kings and rulers, what have courts to show ?
10
104
Retirement (Cowper)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29
But on one thing you could gamble, in the thickest of the fray,
13
13
Boots (Paterson)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Boots%5F%28Paterson%29
And furnishing the evidence it sought,
6
70
Seven Sonnets on the Thought of Death
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Seven%5FSonnets%5Fon%5Fthe%5FThought%5Fof%5FDeath
On the Kill Down Gorge where the Danes found death.
10
737
Reynard The Fox Part II
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII