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A king lived long ago

Alas for them! their day is o'er.

Alas! what boots the long, laborious quest
Allen-a-Dale has no fagot for burning

All the world's a stage

All things that are

All thoughts, all passions, all delights.
Along a river-side, I know not where
A man prepared against all ills to come
A man there came, whence none could tell
Amazed, confused, its fate unknown

A mist was driving down the British Channel
An ancient story I'll tell you anon
And also, beau sire, of other things.
And here the hermit sat and told his beads

And I shall sleep, and on thy side
And on his far resounding path

And passing here through evening dew
And sooth to say, yon vocal grove

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And whither would you lead me?
An empty sky, a world of heather
Appeared the princess with that merry
Art is long, and time is fleeting
A shadie grove not far away they spied
As heaven and earth are fairer

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As I in hoary winter's night.

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R. BARNEFIELD.
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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints whose bones MILTON

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A wet sheet and a flowing sea
Ay, but to die, and go, we know not where
Ay! tear her tattered ensign down

Bankrupt, our pockets inside out
Beautiful! sir, you may say so

Beaver roars hoarse with melting snows
Before the starry threshold of Jove's court
Before thy stem, smooth seas were curled
Behold a silly tender babe

Being asked by an intimate party
Beneath an Indian palm, a girl

Below the bottom of the great abyss.

Be thou blest, Bertram! and succeed thy father

Better trust all, and be deceived

Between the dark and the daylight

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
Birdie, birdie, will you, pet

Blackened and bleeding, helpless, panting, prone
Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Blue crystal vault and elemental fires

Bonny Kilmeny gaed up the glen

Brave Schill, by death delivered

Break, Fantasy, from the cave of cloud
Breathe, trumpets, breathe slow notes
Bright flag at yonder tapering mast
Bury the Great Duke

Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride

But all our praises, why should lords engross

But are ye sure the news is true?

But fare you well, auld Nickie-Ben.

But for ye speken of such gentilesse

But I wol turn againe to Ariadne

But souls that of his own good life partake
By broad Potomac's silent shore
By Nebo's lonely mountain

Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin
Call me no more

Calm and still light on yon great plain
Captain or Colonel, or Knight in arms.
Child Dyring has ridden him up under öe
Clothed with state, and girt with might
Come away, come away, death

Come into the garden, Maud.

Come on, come on, and where you go

Come on, sir, here's the place: stand still
Come pitie us, all ye who see

Come seeling night.

Come, see the Dolphin's anchor forged
Come thou who art the wine and wit

Come to Licöo! the sun is riding

Come to the river's reedy shore
Comrades, leave me here a little
Consolers of the solitary hours

Dark fell the night, the watch was set
Dear lady, I a little fear.

Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die

Dear my friend and fellow-student

Deep in the waves is a coral grove

Dinas Emiliun, lament, for the moment is nigh.
Drink to me only with thine eyes

Each care-worn face is but a book
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky
Ever a current of sadness deep

Faintly as tolls the evening chime

Faire Daffodills, we weep to see

Fair pledges of a fruitful tree

Fare thee well! and if forever

Farewell, ye lofty spires

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter

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Far have I clambered in my mind

HENRY MORE.

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He's gane! he's gane! he's frae us torn

Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Fleet the Tartar's reinless steed

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
From harmony, from heavenly harmony
From you have I.been absent in the spring
Fali fathom five thy father lies
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow.

Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried
Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn
Give me a spirit that on life's rough sea.
Give me my cup.

Give me my scallop's shell of quiet
Give place, ye ladies, and begone.

God moves in a mysterious way.

God of science and of light

Goe, happy rose, and interwove
Goldilocks sat on the grass
Go, lovely rose

Go, soul, the body's guest
Grandmother's mother; her age I guess
Great God, greater than greatest

Great Ocean! strongest of Creation's sons
Gude Lord Graham is to Carlisle gane.

Hail to the chief who in triumph advances

Happy, happier far than thou

Happy those early days when I

Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
Hark, how I'll bribe you

Hath this world without me wrought?

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss-shay?
Hearken in your ear

He clasps the crag with hooked hands

He is gone is dust

He is gone on the mountains

He leaves the earth, and says enough

Hence, all you vain delights!

Hence, loathed melancholy!

Hence, vain deluding joys!

Here is the place; right over the hill

Here let us live, and spend away our lives

Here might I pause and bend in reverence
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee

Her fingers shame the ivory keys

Her finger was so small, the ring

Her house is all of echo made

He's a rare man

He that loves a rosy cheek

He works in rings, in magic rings of chance

Hope smiled when your nativity was cast

How changed is here each place man makes or fills!
How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean!
How happy is he born and taught

How many a time have I

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How many thousand of my poorest subjects
How near to good is what is fair!

How oft when thou my music, music play'st
How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai!
How seldom, friends, a good great man inherits
How sleep the brave who sink to rest -
How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank!

How they go by, those strange and dreamlike men!
How vainly men themselves amaze!

How young and fresh am I to-night!

I am holy while I stand

I called on dreams and visions to disclose

I came to a laund of white and green.

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If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep.

If men be worlds, there is in every one

If this great world of joy and pain

If thou be one whose heart the holy forms
If thou wert by my side, my love
If with light head erect I sing

1 got me flowers to strew thy way
I have done one braver thing.
I have learned to look on nature

I have ships that went to sea.

I have, thou gallant Trojan

I have woven shrouds of air

I hear thy solemn anthem fall

I know a little garden close

I made a footing in the wall

I made a posie, while the day ran by

I mind it weel, in early date

I'm sitting alone by the fire

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Inland, within a hollow vale I stood

In sweet dreams, softer than unbroken rest

In the frosty season, when the sun

In the golden reign of Charlemagne the king.
In the hour of my distress

In the summer even

In this world, the isle of dreams

In vain the common theme my tongue would shun

In what torn ship soever I embark

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

In yonder grave a Druid lies

I see a dusk and awful figure rise

I see before me the gladiator lie

I see men's judgments are.

I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus.

I sift the snow on the mountains below

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris and he.

Is there for honest poverty

Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child?

It don't seem hardly right, John

It follows now you are to prove.

It happen that I came on a day

I think not on my father

It is not to be thought of, that the flood

It little profits that an idle king

It's narrow, narrow make your bed

It's no in titles or in rank

It was fifty years ago

It was the season, when through all the land.

It was the time when lilies blow

It was the winter wild

It was thy fear, or else some transient wind

I wandered lonely as a cloud

I watched her face, suspecting

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I wish I were where Helen lies

I would that thou might always be

I've taught me other tongues

John Anderson, my jo, John

John Brown in Kansas settled like a steadfast
Just for a handful of silver he left us
Just now I've ta'en a fit of rhyme

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CHANNING

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CHANNING

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WILLIAM MORRIS

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BYRON

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HERBERT.

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