Preface to the Shorter Fifth Edition |
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Editorial Procedures |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 | (1) |
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2 | (9) |
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10 | (1) |
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(``I am a lonely being, scarred by swords'') |
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10 | (1) |
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(``My dress is silent when I tread the ground'') |
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10 | (1) |
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(``A moth ate words; a marvellous event'') |
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11 | (1) |
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11 | (4) |
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Anonymous Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries |
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14 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343--1400) |
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15 | (50) |
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15 | (48) |
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15 | (20) |
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale |
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35 | (28) |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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Lyrics and Occasional Verse |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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William Langland (ca. 1330--ca. 1400) |
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65 | (4) |
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Piers Plowman, lines 1--111 |
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65 | (4) |
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69 | (7) |
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Anonymous Lyrics of the Fifteenth Century |
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72 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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The Sacrament of the Altar |
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76 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1525) |
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76 | (5) |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (2) |
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John Skelton (1460--1529) |
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81 | (21) |
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Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale |
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81 | (1) |
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To Mistress Margaret Hussey |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (3) |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (2) |
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97 | (1) |
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Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean Poems |
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98 | (1) |
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Weep You No More, Sad Fountains |
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98 | (1) |
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There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (2) |
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Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542) |
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102 | (6) |
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The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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Patience, Though I Have Not |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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107 | (1) |
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517--1547) |
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108 | (2) |
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108 | (1) |
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Love, That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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The Ballad Which Anne Askewe Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate |
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110 | (1) |
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Queen Elizabeth I (1533--1603) |
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111 | (2) |
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When I Was Fair and Young |
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111 | (1) |
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[The Doubt of Future Foes Exiles My Present Joy] |
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112 | (1) |
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[Ah Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid] |
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112 | (1) |
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George Gascoigne (ca. 1534--1577) |
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113 | (2) |
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113 | (1) |
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114 | (1) |
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Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567--1573) |
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115 | (5) |
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115 | (5) |
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A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will |
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115 | (1) |
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From The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing |
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116 | (4) |
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Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586) |
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120 | (1) |
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[My Prime of Youth Is but a Frost of Cares] |
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120 | (1) |
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Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618) |
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120 | (5) |
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A Vision upon the Fairy Queen |
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120 | (1) |
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (2) |
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[Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love] |
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124 | (1) |
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Edmund Spenser (1552--1599) |
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125 | (28) |
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125 | (14) |
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125 | (14) |
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139 | (4) |
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Sonnet 15 (``Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle'') |
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139 | (1) |
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Sonnet 23 (``Penelope for her Ulisses sake'') |
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140 | (1) |
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Sonnet 54 (``Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay'') |
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140 | (1) |
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Sonnet 67 (``Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace'') |
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141 | (1) |
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Sonnet 70 (``Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king'') |
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141 | (1) |
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Sonnet 71 (``I joy to see how in your drawen work'') |
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141 | (1) |
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Sonnet 75 (``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'') |
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142 | (1) |
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Sonnet 79 (``Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it'') |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (10) |
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153 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary |
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154 | (1) |
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Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586) |
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154 | (8) |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (5) |
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1 (``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'') |
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157 | (1) |
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21 (``Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame'') |
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158 | (1) |
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31 (``With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies'') |
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158 | (1) |
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48 (``Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me'') |
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159 | (1) |
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49 (``I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try'') |
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159 | (1) |
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52 (``A strife is grown between Virtue and Love'') |
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159 | (1) |
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63 (``O Grammer rules, o now your virtues show'') |
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160 | (1) |
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71 (``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'') |
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160 | (4) |
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Seventh Song (``Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays'') |
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90 (``Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame'') |
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161 | (1) |
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Robert Southwell (ca. 1561--1595) |
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162 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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162 | (2) |
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162 | (1) |
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Psalm 114: In Exitu Israel |
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163 | (1) |
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Samuel Daniel (1563--1619) |
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164 | (2) |
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164 | (2) |
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1 (``Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty'') |
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164 | (1) |
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2 (``Go wailing verse, the infants of my love'') |
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164 | (1) |
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6 (``Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair'') |
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165 | (1) |
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49 (``Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night'') |
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165 | (1) |
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50 (``Let others sing of knights and paladins'') |
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166 | (1) |
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Michael Drayton (1563--1631) |
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166 | (2) |
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166 | (2) |
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To the Reader of these Sonnets |
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166 | (1) |
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6 (``How many paltry, foolish, painted things'') |
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167 | (1) |
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14 (``If he from heaven that filched that living fire'') |
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167 | (1) |
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61 (``Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'') |
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168 | (1) |
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Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593) |
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168 | (1) |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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168 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare (1564--1616) |
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169 | (13) |
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169 | (10) |
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1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'') |
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169 | (1) |
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3 (``Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest'') |
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169 | (1) |
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12 (``When I do count the clock that tells the time'') |
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170 | (1) |
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15 (``When I consider everything that grows'') |
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170 | (1) |
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18 (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'') |
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171 | (1) |
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20 (``A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted'') |
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171 | (1) |
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29 (``When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'') |
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171 | (1) |
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30 (``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'') |
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172 | (1) |
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55 (``Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'') |
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172 | (1) |
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65 (``Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'') |
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173 | (1) |
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71 (``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'') |
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173 | (1) |
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73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'') |
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173 | (1) |
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87 (``Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing'') |
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174 | (1) |
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94 (``They that have power to hurt and will do none'') |
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174 | (1) |
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97 (``How like a winter hath my absence been'') |
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175 | (1) |
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106 (``When in the chronicle of wasted time'') |
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175 | (1) |
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107 (``Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'') |
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175 | (1) |
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116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'') |
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176 | (1) |
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126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r'') |
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176 | (1) |
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129 (``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'') |
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177 | (1) |
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130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'') |
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177 | (1) |
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138 (``When my love swears that she is made of truth'') |
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177 | (1) |
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144 (``Two loves have I of comfort and despair'') |
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178 | (1) |
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146 (``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'') |
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178 | (1) |
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The Phoenix and the Turtle |
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179 | (2) |
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181 | (1) |
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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind |
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181 | (1) |
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Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun |
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181 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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Thomas Campion (1567--1620) |
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182 | (3) |
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182 | (1) |
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I Care Not for These Ladies |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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When to Her Lute Corinna Sings |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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Thomas Nashe (1567--1601) |
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185 | (2) |
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185 | (2) |
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[Spring, the Sweet Spring] |
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185 | (1) |
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[Adieu, Farewell, Earth's Bliss] |
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186 | (1) |
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Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645) |
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187 | (4) |
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From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum |
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187 | (4) |
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191 | (17) |
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191 | (1) |
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Song (``Go and catch a falling star'') |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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193 | (1) |
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194 | (1) |
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Song (``Sweetest love, I do not go'') |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed |
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203 | (2) |
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Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (2) |
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1 (``Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?'') |
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206 | (1) |
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5 (``I am a little world made cunningly'') |
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206 | (1) |
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7 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'') |
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207 | (1) |
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10 (``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'') |
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207 | (1) |
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14 (``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You'') |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (13) |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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Inviting a Friend to Supper |
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210 | (1) |
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211 | (1) |
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211 | (3) |
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214 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
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Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell |
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217 | (1) |
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To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare |
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217 | (2) |
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A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (4) |
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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus |
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221 | (4) |
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1 (``When night's black mantle could most darkness prove'') |
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221 | (1) |
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3 (``Yet is there Hope: then Love but play thy part'') |
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221 | (1) |
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37 (``Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed'') |
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222 | (1) |
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74 Song (``Love a child is ever crying'') |
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222 | (1) |
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A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love |
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223 | (1) |
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77 (``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn'') |
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223 | (1) |
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78 (``Is to leave all and take the thread of Love'') |
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224 | (1) |
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82 (``He may our prophet, and our tutor prove'') |
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224 | (1) |
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Robert Herrick (1591--1674) |
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225 | (7) |
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225 | (1) |
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225 | (1) |
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226 | (1) |
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226 | (2) |
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
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228 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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229 | (1) |
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229 | (1) |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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The White Island, or Place of the Blest |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (3) |
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An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend |
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232 | (3) |
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George Herbert (1593--1633) |
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235 | (11) |
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The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations |
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235 | (11) |
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235 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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Thomas Carew (ca. 1595--1640) |
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246 | (5) |
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A Song (``Ask me no more where Jove bestows'') |
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246 | (1) |
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Song. To My Inconstant Mistress |
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247 | (1) |
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An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne |
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247 | (3) |
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The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book (1640) |
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250 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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Edmund Waller (1606--1687) |
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251 | (1) |
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Song (``Go, lovely rose!'') |
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251 | (1) |
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252 | (29) |
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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity |
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252 | (8) |
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260 | (1) |
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260 | (4) |
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264 | (4) |
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268 | (1) |
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269 | (5) |
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274 | (1) |
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Song (``Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen'') |
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274 | (1) |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent |
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274 | (1) |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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275 | (1) |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (5) |
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276 | (1) |
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277 | (1) |
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From Book 4 [lines 1--113] |
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278 | (3) |
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Sir John Suckling (1609--1642) |
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281 | (1) |
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Song (``Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'') |
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281 | (1) |
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Sonnet II (``Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white'') |
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281 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612--1672) |
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282 | (6) |
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282 | (1) |
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children |
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283 | (2) |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband |
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285 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment |
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286 | (1) |
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Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666 |
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287 | (1) |
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Richard Crashaw (1613--1649) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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Richard Lovelace (1618--1658) |
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289 | (3) |
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289 | (1) |
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To Lucasta, Going to the Wars |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (1) |
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Andrew Marvell (1621--1678) |
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292 | (6) |
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292 | (1) |
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293 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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The Mower against Gardens |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (2) |
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Henry Vaughan (1621--1695) |
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298 | (4) |
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298 | (1) |
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They Are All Gone into the World of Light! |
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299 | (2) |
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301 | (1) |
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Margaret Cavendish (1623--1673) |
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302 | (1) |
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An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book |
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302 | (1) |
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Of Many Worlds in This World |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (9) |
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303 | (6) |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham |
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309 | (1) |
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A Song for St. Cecilia's Day |
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310 | (2) |
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Katherine Philips (1632--1664) |
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312 | (1) |
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312 | (1) |
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To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship |
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312 | (1) |
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Thomas Traherne (1637--1674) |
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313 | (2) |
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313 | (2) |
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Edward Taylor (ca. 1642--1729) |
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315 | (3) |
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Meditation 8 (``I kenning through astronomy divine'') |
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315 | (1) |
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Upon a Spider Catching a Fly |
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316 | (2) |
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318 | (5) |
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318 | (1) |
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318 | (4) |
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Song (``On Her Loving Two Equally'') |
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322 | (1) |
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To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman |
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323 | (1) |
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647--1680) |
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323 | (4) |
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323 | (2) |
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325 | (1) |
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A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover |
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326 | (1) |
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Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661--1720) |
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327 | (6) |
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327 | (4) |
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331 | (1) |
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331 | (2) |
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Jonathan Swift (1667--1745) |
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333 | (20) |
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A Description of a City Shower |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (2) |
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336 | (3) |
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A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed |
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339 | (2) |
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Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. |
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341 | (12) |
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353 | (3) |
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353 | (2) |
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355 | (1) |
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356 | (1) |
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Songs from The Beggar's Opera |
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356 | (1) |
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Air X---``Thomas, I Cannot'' |
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356 | (1) |
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Air XI---``A Soldier and a Sailor'' |
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356 | (1) |
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Air XVI---``Over the Hills, and Far Away'' |
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356 | (1) |
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Air XXVII---``Green Sleeves'' |
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357 | (1) |
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Alexander Pope (1688--1744) |
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357 | (33) |
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357 | (18) |
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375 | (1) |
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An Essay on Man, in Four Epistles |
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376 | (3) |
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From Epistle 1 (lines 1--130) |
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376 | (3) |
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379 | (10) |
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389 | (1) |
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389 | (1) |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689--1762) |
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390 | (4) |
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390 | (2) |
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392 | (1) |
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A Receipt to Cure the Vapors |
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393 | (1) |
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James Thomson (1700--1748) |
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394 | (3) |
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394 | (3) |
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From Winter (lines 223--358) |
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394 | (3) |
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Samuel Johnson (1709--1784) |
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397 | (10) |
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Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick |
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397 | (2) |
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The Vanity of Human Wishes |
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399 | (8) |
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407 | (7) |
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Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College |
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407 | (2) |
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Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes) |
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409 | (1) |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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410 | (4) |
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William Collins (1721--1759) |
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414 | (3) |
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Ode on the Poetical Character |
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414 | (2) |
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416 | (1) |
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Christopher Smart (1722--1771) |
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417 | (3) |
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Jubilate Agno, lines 697--770 (``For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'') |
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417 | (2) |
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419 | (1) |
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420 | (1) |
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The Flowers of the Forest |
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420 | (1) |
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Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730--1774) |
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421 | (10) |
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When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly |
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421 | (1) |
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422 | (9) |
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William Cowper (1731--1800) |
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431 | (3) |
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431 | (1) |
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Light Shining out of Darkness |
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431 | (1) |
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431 | (2) |
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Lines Written during a Period of Insanity |
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433 | (1) |
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743--1825) |
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434 | (2) |
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434 | (1) |
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435 | (1) |
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435 | (1) |
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Charlotte Smith (1749--1806) |
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436 | (2) |
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436 | (1) |
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437 | (1) |
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437 | (1) |
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Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753--1784) |
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438 | (2) |
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On Being Brought from Africa to America |
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438 | (1) |
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To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works |
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439 | (1) |
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William Blake (1757--1827) |
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440 | (11) |
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440 | (1) |
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Song (``How sweet I roam'd from field to field'') |
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440 | (1) |
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440 | (1) |
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441 | (3) |
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Introduction (``Piping down the valleys wild'') |
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441 | (1) |
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441 | (1) |
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442 | (1) |
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442 | (1) |
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443 | (1) |
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444 | (4) |
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Introduction (``Hear the voice of the Bard!'') |
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444 | (1) |
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444 | (1) |
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445 | (1) |
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445 | (1) |
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446 | (1) |
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446 | (1) |
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446 | (1) |
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447 | (1) |
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447 | (1) |
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448 | (1) |
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448 | (2) |
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448 | (1) |
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Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau |
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449 | (1) |
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449 | (1) |
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450 | (1) |
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450 | (1) |
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450 | (1) |
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England! Awake! Awake! Awake! |
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450 | (1) |
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Robert Burns (1759--1796) |
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451 | (5) |
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451 | (1) |
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452 | (1) |
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453 | (2) |
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455 | (1) |
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456 | (1) |
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William Wordsworth (1770--1850) |
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456 | (30) |
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456 | (1) |
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457 | (1) |
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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey |
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458 | (4) |
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462 | (2) |
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464 | (7) |
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Book I, lines 301--647 (``Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up'') |
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464 | (7) |
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She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways |
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471 | (1) |
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471 | (1) |
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal |
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472 | (1) |
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Resolution and Independence |
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473 | (3) |
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It Is a Beauteous Evening |
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476 | (1) |
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477 | (1) |
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Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
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477 | (1) |
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Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room |
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478 | (1) |
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478 | (1) |
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality |
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478 | (5) |
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud |
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483 | (1) |
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The World Is Too Much with Us |
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484 | (1) |
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484 | (1) |
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485 | (1) |
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485 | (1) |
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486 | (1) |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834) |
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486 | (23) |
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486 | (2) |
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488 | (1) |
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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489 | (16) |
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505 | (4) |
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Walter Savage Landor (1775--1864) |
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509 | (1) |
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509 | (1) |
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509 | (1) |
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Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher |
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509 | (1) |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824) |
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510 | (28) |
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Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos |
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510 | (1) |
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510 | (1) |
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511 | (1) |
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So We'll Go No More A-Roving |
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512 | (1) |
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512 | (25) |
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Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto I |
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512 | (1) |
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Canto the First. Stanzas 1--119 |
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513 | (24) |
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On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year |
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537 | (1) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822) |
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538 | (26) |
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Hymn to Intellectual Beauty |
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538 | (3) |
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541 | (1) |
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Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples |
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541 | (1) |
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542 | (1) |
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543 | (2) |
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545 | (2) |
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547 | (3) |
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550 | (13) |
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563 | (1) |
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563 | (1) |
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564 | (2) |
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564 | (1) |
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565 | (1) |
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566 | (1) |
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793--1835) |
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566 | (1) |
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566 | (1) |
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567 | (21) |
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer |
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567 | (1) |
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On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again |
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568 | (1) |
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568 | (1) |
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569 | (1) |
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569 | (10) |
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579 | (1) |
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579 | (2) |
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581 | (1) |
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582 | (2) |
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584 | (1) |
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585 | (2) |
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587 | (1) |
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588 | (1) |
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|
588 | (1) |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882) |
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588 | (5) |
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588 | (1) |
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589 | (1) |
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589 | (1) |
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Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing) |
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590 | (3) |
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593 | (1) |
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593 | (1) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861) |
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593 | (4) |
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Sonnets from the Portuguese |
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593 | (1) |
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1 (``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'') |
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593 | (1) |
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43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'') |
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594 | (1) |
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594 | (3) |
|
From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age] |
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594 | (3) |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882) |
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597 | (3) |
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|
597 | (1) |
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597 | (2) |
|
From Part III: Hiawatha's Childhood |
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597 | (2) |
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599 | (1) |
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Edward Fitzgerald (1809--1883) |
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|
600 | (13) |
|
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur |
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|
600 | (13) |
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809--1894) |
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613 | (1) |
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613 | (1) |
|
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) |
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614 | (5) |
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614 | (1) |
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615 | (1) |
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615 | (3) |
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618 | (1) |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892) |
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|
619 | (23) |
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619 | (2) |
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621 | (4) |
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625 | (4) |
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629 | (2) |
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631 | (1) |
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631 | (2) |
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631 | (1) |
|
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal |
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632 | (1) |
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|
633 | (6) |
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1 (``I held it truth, with him who sings'') |
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633 | (1) |
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2 (``Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'') |
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633 | (1) |
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7 (``Dark house, by which once more I stand'') |
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634 | (1) |
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11 (``Calm is the morn without a sound'') |
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634 | (1) |
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19 (``The Danube to the Severn gave'') |
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634 | (1) |
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50 (``Be near me when my light is low'') |
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635 | (1) |
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67 (``When on my bed the moonlight falls'') |
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635 | (1) |
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88 (``Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet'') |
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636 | (1) |
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95 (``By night we lingered on the lawn'') |
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636 | (2) |
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119 (``Doors, where my heart was used to beat'') |
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638 | (1) |
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121 (``Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun'') |
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638 | (1) |
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130 (``Thy voice is on the rolling air'') |
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639 | (1) |
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639 | (1) |
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639 | (2) |
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641 | (1) |
|
Robert Browning (1812--1889) |
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|
642 | (24) |
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|
642 | (1) |
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643 | (1) |
|
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church |
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644 | (3) |
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Home-Thoughts, from Abroad |
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647 | (1) |
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648 | (2) |
|
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'' |
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650 | (6) |
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656 | (8) |
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664 | (2) |
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|
666 | (2) |
|
There Was an Old Man with a Beard |
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|
666 | (1) |
|
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat |
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|
666 | (1) |
|
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear |
|
|
667 | (1) |
|
Emily Bronte (1818--1848) |
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|
668 | (3) |
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|
668 | (1) |
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|
669 | (2) |
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|
671 | (1) |
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819--1861) |
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|
671 | (2) |
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|
671 | (1) |
|
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth |
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|
672 | (1) |
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Julia Ward Howe (1819--1910) |
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|
673 | (1) |
|
Battle-Hymn of the Republic |
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|
673 | (1) |
|
Herman Melville (1819--1891) |
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673 | (6) |
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673 | (1) |
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674 | (1) |
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674 | (1) |
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675 | (1) |
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676 | (1) |
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676 | (1) |
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676 | (1) |
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|
677 | (2) |
|
Walt Whitman (1819--1892) |
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|
679 | (25) |
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679 | (5) |
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1 (``I celebrate myself, and sing myself'') |
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679 | (1) |
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5 (``I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you'') |
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679 | (1) |
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6 (``A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands'') |
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680 | (1) |
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11 (``Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore'') |
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681 | (1) |
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24 (``Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son'') |
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682 | (1) |
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52 (``The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me'') |
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683 | (1) |
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684 | (5) |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
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689 | (1) |
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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night |
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689 | (1) |
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690 | (1) |
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691 | (1) |
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking |
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|
691 | (5) |
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd |
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696 | (6) |
|
A Noiseless Patient Spider |
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702 | (1) |
|
To a Locomotive in Winter |
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|
703 | (1) |
|
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888) |
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704 | (8) |
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704 | (1) |
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704 | (1) |
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705 | (6) |
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711 | (1) |
|
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882) |
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712 | (4) |
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712 | (3) |
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715 | (1) |
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|
715 | (1) |
|
George Meredith (1828--1909) |
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716 | (3) |
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716 | (2) |
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1 (``By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'') |
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716 | (1) |
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17 (``At dinner, she is hostess, I am host'') |
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716 | (1) |
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30 (``What are we first? First, animals; and next'') |
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717 | (1) |
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48 (``Their sense is with their senses all mixed in'') |
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717 | (1) |
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49 (``He found her by the ocean's moaning verge'') |
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717 | (1) |
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50 (``Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'') |
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718 | (1) |
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|
718 | (1) |
|
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886) |
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|
719 | (14) |
|
39 (49) (``I never lost as much but twice -'') |
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|
719 | (1) |
|
68 (89) (Some things that fly there be -'') |
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|
719 | (1) |
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112 (67) (``Success is counted sweetest'') |
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|
719 | (1) |
|
124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1859) |
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720 | (1) |
|
124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1862) |
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|
720 | (1) |
|
145 (59) (``A little East of Jordan'') |
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|
721 | (1) |
|
202 (185) (`` `Faith' is a fine invention'') |
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|
721 | (1) |
|
260 (288) (``I'm nobody! Who are you?'') |
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722 | (1) |
|
269 (249) (``Wild nights - Wild nights!'') |
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|
722 | (1) |
|
314 (254) (`` `Hope' is the thing with feathers -'') |
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722 | (1) |
|
320 (258) (``There's a certain Slant of light'') |
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|
723 | (1) |
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339 (241) (``I like a look of Agony'') |
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|
723 | (1) |
|
340 (280) (``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'') |
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|
723 | (1) |
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359 (328) (``A Bird, came down the Walk -'') |
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|
724 | (1) |
|
372 (341) (``After great pain, a formal feeling comes -'') |
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725 | (1) |
|
409 (303) (``The Soul selects her own Society -'') |
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725 | (1) |
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445 (613) (``They shut me up in Prose -'') |
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725 | (1) |
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479 (712) (``Because I could not stop for Death -'') |
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|
726 | (1) |
|
533 (569) (``I reckon - When I count at all -'') |
|
|
727 | (1) |
|
591 (465) (``I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -'') |
|
|
727 | (1) |
|
620 (435) (``Much Madness is divinest Sense -'') |
|
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728 | (1) |
|
740 (789) (``On a Columnar Self -'') |
|
|
728 | (1) |
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764 (754) (``My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -'') |
|
|
728 | (1) |
|
782 (745) (``Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue -'') |
|
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729 | (1) |
|
788 (709) (``Publication - is the Auction'') |
|
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730 | (1) |
|
905 (861) (``Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music -'') |
|
|
730 | (1) |
|
1096 (986) (``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'') |
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|
730 | (1) |
|
1108 (1078) (``The Bustle in a House'') |
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|
731 | (1) |
|
1263 (1129) (``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -'') |
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|
731 | (1) |
|
1489 (1463) (``A Route of Evanescence'') |
|
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732 | (1) |
|
1793 (1732) (``My life closed twice before it's close'') |
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|
732 | (1) |
|
1788 (1763) (``Fame is a bee'') |
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|
732 | (1) |
|
Christina Rossetti (1830--1894) |
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|
733 | (3) |
|
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'') |
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|
733 | (1) |
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|
733 | (1) |
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|
733 | (1) |
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|
734 | (1) |
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|
734 | (1) |
|
Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away |
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|
735 | (1) |
|
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832--1898) |
|
|
736 | (2) |
|
|
736 | (1) |
|
[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky] |
|
|
737 | (1) |
|
W. S. Gilbert (1836--1911) |
|
|
738 | (2) |
|
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General |
|
|
738 | (2) |
|
|
740 | (1) |
|
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909) |
|
|
740 | (4) |
|
Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon |
|
|
740 | (2) |
|
When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces |
|
|
740 | (2) |
|
|
742 | (2) |
|
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928) |
|
|
744 | (8) |
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|
744 | (1) |
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|
744 | (1) |
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|
745 | (1) |
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|
745 | (1) |
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746 | (1) |
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747 | (1) |
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The Convergence of the Twain |
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748 | (1) |
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749 | (1) |
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750 | (1) |
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751 | (1) |
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In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations'' |
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751 | (1) |
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Sidney Lanier (1842--1881) |
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752 | (3) |
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752 | (3) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889) |
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755 | (5) |
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755 | (1) |
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755 | (1) |
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756 | (1) |
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[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame] |
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756 | (1) |
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757 | (1) |
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757 | (1) |
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758 | (1) |
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[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief] |
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758 | (1) |
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[My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On] |
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759 | (1) |
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[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord . . .] |
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|
759 | (1) |
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A. E. Housman (1859--1936) |
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760 | (5) |
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Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now |
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760 | (1) |
|
To an Athlete Dying Young |
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760 | (1) |
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761 | (1) |
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With Rue My Heart Is Laden |
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762 | (1) |
|
``Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .'' |
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|
762 | (2) |
|
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries |
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764 | (1) |
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Crossing Alone the Nighted Ferry |
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764 | (1) |
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Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose |
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765 | (1) |
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Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) |
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765 | (2) |
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765 | (1) |
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766 | (1) |
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William Butler Yeats (1865--1939) |
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767 | (20) |
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767 | (1) |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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768 | (1) |
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769 | (1) |
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769 | (1) |
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770 | (1) |
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771 | (1) |
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772 | (2) |
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774 | (1) |
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774 | (2) |
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776 | (1) |
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776 | (2) |
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778 | (2) |
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Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop |
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780 | (1) |
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780 | (2) |
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782 | (1) |
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The Circus Animals' Desertion |
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782 | (2) |
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784 | (3) |
|
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935) |
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787 | (3) |
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787 | (1) |
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787 | (1) |
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788 | (1) |
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788 | (1) |
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789 | (1) |
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Charlotte Mew (1869--1928) |
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790 | (2) |
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790 | (2) |
|
Stephen Crane (1871--1900) |
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|
792 | (2) |
|
From The Black Riders and Other Lines |
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|
792 | (1) |
|
I (``Black Riders Came from the Sea'') |
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792 | (1) |
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792 | (1) |
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XXV (``Behold, the Grave of a Wicked Man'') |
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792 | (1) |
|
LVI (``A Man Feared That He Might Find an Assassin'') |
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793 | (1) |
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793 | (1) |
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[A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar] |
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793 | (1) |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906) |
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794 | (1) |
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794 | (1) |
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795 | (1) |
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Robert Frost (1874--1963) |
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795 | (15) |
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795 | (1) |
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796 | (3) |
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799 | (1) |
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800 | (1) |
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801 | (1) |
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801 | (1) |
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802 | (1) |
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
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803 | (1) |
|
Acquainted with the Night |
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804 | (1) |
|
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep |
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804 | (1) |
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805 | (1) |
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805 | (1) |
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806 | (1) |
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806 | (1) |
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Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same |
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807 | (1) |
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807 | (1) |
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808 | (1) |
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808 | (2) |
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810 | (3) |
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810 | (2) |
|
The Weather-Cock Points South |
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|
812 | (1) |
|
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946) |
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813 | (1) |
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813 | (1) |
|
Part I, Stanza XIII (``She may count three little daisies very well'') |
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|
813 | (1) |
|
Part III, Stanza II (``I think very well of Susan but I do not know her name'') |
|
|
813 | (1) |
|
Part III, Stanza V (``It is not a range of a mountain'') |
|
|
814 | (1) |
|
Part V, Stanza XXXVIII (``Which I wish to say is this'') |
|
|
814 | (1) |
|
Part V, Stanza LXIII (``I wish that I had spoken only of it all.'') |
|
|
814 | (1) |
|
Edward Thomas (1878--1917) |
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|
814 | (2) |
|
In Memoriam [Easter 1915] |
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814 | (1) |
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|
815 | (1) |
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Wallace Stevens (1879--1955) |
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816 | (11) |
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816 | (1) |
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816 | (1) |
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817 | (3) |
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820 | (1) |
|
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
|
|
820 | (2) |
|
Peter Quince at the Clavier |
|
|
822 | (2) |
|
The Idea of Order at Key West |
|
|
824 | (1) |
|
Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu |
|
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825 | (1) |
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|
826 | (1) |
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|
827 | (1) |
|
Come Not the Seasons Here |
|
|
827 | (1) |
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|
827 | (1) |
|
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963) |
|
|
828 | (10) |
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828 | (1) |
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829 | (1) |
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829 | (1) |
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830 | (1) |
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830 | (1) |
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831 | (1) |
|
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower |
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|
831 | (7) |
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|
831 | (7) |
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|
838 | (1) |
|
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
|
|
838 | (1) |
|
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930) |
|
|
838 | (6) |
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838 | (2) |
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840 | (1) |
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840 | (3) |
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843 | (1) |
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843 | (1) |
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844 | (7) |
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844 | (1) |
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845 | (1) |
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845 | (1) |
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846 | (1) |
|
In a Station of the Metro |
|
|
846 | (1) |
|
The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter |
|
|
846 | (1) |
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|
847 | (4) |
|
I (``And then went down to the ship'') |
|
|
847 | (2) |
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|
849 | (2) |
|
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961) |
|
|
851 | (2) |
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|
851 | (1) |
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|
851 | (2) |
|
[1] (``An incident here and there'') |
|
|
851 | (2) |
|
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967) |
|
|
853 | (1) |
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853 | (1) |
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853 | (1) |
|
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962) |
|
|
854 | (1) |
|
Shine, Perishing Republic |
|
|
854 | (1) |
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|
854 | (1) |
|
Marianne Moore (1887--1972) |
|
|
855 | (7) |
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855 | (1) |
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856 | (1) |
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857 | (2) |
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859 | (1) |
|
|
860 | (1) |
|
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing |
|
|
861 | (1) |
|
|
862 | (19) |
|
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
|
|
862 | (4) |
|
|
866 | (13) |
|
|
879 | (2) |
|
John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974) |
|
|
881 | (2) |
|
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter |
|
|
881 | (1) |
|
|
882 | (1) |
|
Parting, without a Sequel |
|
|
882 | (1) |
|
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918) |
|
|
883 | (1) |
|
Break of Day in the Trenches |
|
|
883 | (1) |
|
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) (1892--1978) |
|
|
884 | (1) |
|
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries |
|
|
884 | (1) |
|
From In Memoriam James Joyce |
|
|
884 | (1) |
|
Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982) |
|
|
885 | (2) |
|
|
885 | (1) |
|
The Snowflake Which Is Now and Hence Forever |
|
|
886 | (1) |
|
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950) |
|
|
887 | (2) |
|
|
887 | (1) |
|
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare |
|
|
887 | (1) |
|
[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed] |
|
|
887 | (1) |
|
|
888 | (1) |
|
I Dreamed I Moved among the Elysian Fields |
|
|
888 | (1) |
|
|
889 | (1) |
|
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918) |
|
|
889 | (3) |
|
|
889 | (1) |
|
|
890 | (1) |
|
|
891 | (1) |
|
|
892 | (1) |
|
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962) |
|
|
892 | (6) |
|
All in green went my love riding |
|
|
892 | (1) |
|
Spring is like a perhaps hand |
|
|
893 | (1) |
|
``next to of course god america i |
|
|
894 | (1) |
|
|
894 | (1) |
|
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond |
|
|
895 | (1) |
|
|
895 | (1) |
|
anyone lived in a pretty how town |
|
|
896 | (1) |
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897 | (1) |
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898 | (1) |
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898 | (1) |
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|
898 | (1) |
|
|
898 | (1) |
|
Robert Graves (1895--1985) |
|
|
899 | (2) |
|
|
899 | (1) |
|
|
899 | (1) |
|
|
900 | (1) |
|
Louise Bogan (1897--1970) |
|
|
901 | (2) |
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901 | (1) |
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|
901 | (1) |
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902 | (1) |
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903 | (1) |
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|
903 | (6) |
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|
903 | (4) |
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|
907 | (1) |
|
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge |
|
|
907 | (1) |
|
|
908 | (1) |
|
Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901--1991) |
|
|
909 | (1) |
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|
909 | (1) |
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|
910 | (1) |
|
Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989) |
|
|
910 | (2) |
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|
910 | (2) |
|
|
912 | (1) |
|
Langston Hughes (1902--1967) |
|
|
912 | (5) |
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|
912 | (1) |
|
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
|
|
913 | (1) |
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914 | (1) |
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914 | (1) |
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914 | (1) |
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915 | (1) |
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|
915 | (1) |
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|
916 | (1) |
|
Roy Campbell (1902--1957) |
|
|
917 | (1) |
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|
917 | (1) |
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|
918 | (1) |
|
Stevie Smith (1902--1971) |
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|
918 | (2) |
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|
918 | (1) |
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|
919 | (1) |
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|
920 | (1) |
|
Countee Cullen (1903--1946) |
|
|
920 | (4) |
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|
920 | (3) |
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|
923 | (1) |
|
|
923 | (1) |
|
Earle Birney (1904--1991) |
|
|
924 | (2) |
|
|
924 | (1) |
|
The Bear on the Delhi Road |
|
|
925 | (1) |
|
C. Day Lewis (1904--1972) |
|
|
926 | (1) |
|
|
926 | (1) |
|
(``I've heard them lilting at loom and belting'') |
|
|
926 | (1) |
|
(``Come, live with me and be my love'') |
|
|
926 | (1) |
|
|
927 | (1) |
|
Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967) |
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|
927 | (3) |
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|
927 | (2) |
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|
929 | (1) |
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930 | (1) |
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|
930 | (1) |
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|
931 | (1) |
|
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989) |
|
|
931 | (3) |
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|
931 | (2) |
|
|
933 | (1) |
|
|
934 | (1) |
|
William Empson (1906--1984) |
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|
934 | (2) |
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|
934 | (1) |
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|
935 | (1) |
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|
936 | (12) |
|
Lullaby [Lay your sleeping head love] |
|
|
936 | (1) |
|
As I Walked Out One Evening |
|
|
937 | (1) |
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|
938 | (1) |
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|
938 | (1) |
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|
939 | (1) |
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|
939 | (2) |
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|
941 | (3) |
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|
944 | (2) |
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|
946 | (2) |
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|
948 | (1) |
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|
948 | (1) |
|
|
949 | (1) |
|
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963) |
|
|
949 | (6) |
|
The Sunlight on the Garden |
|
|
949 | (1) |
|
|
950 | (1) |
|
From Autumn Journal (``September has come and I wake'') |
|
|
951 | (1) |
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|
952 | (2) |
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|
954 | (1) |
|
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963) |
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|
955 | (3) |
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955 | (1) |
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955 | (1) |
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956 | (1) |
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956 | (1) |
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|
957 | (1) |
|
Richard Wright (1908--1960) |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
21 (``On winter mornings'') |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
31 (``In the falling snow'') |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
210 (``Crying and crying'') |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
490 (``Waking from a nap'') |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
762 (``Droning autumn rain'') |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
783 (``I cannot find it'') |
|
|
958 | (1) |
|
Malcolm Lowry (1909--1957) |
|
|
959 | (1) |
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|
959 | (1) |
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|
959 | (1) |
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|
959 | (1) |
|
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979) |
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|
960 | (7) |
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|
960 | (1) |
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960 | (2) |
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962 | (1) |
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963 | (1) |
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964 | (2) |
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966 | (1) |
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967 | (1) |
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|
967 | (1) |
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|
968 | (1) |
|
Robert Hayden (1913--1980) |
|
|
968 | (3) |
|
|
968 | (1) |
|
Night, Death, Mississippi |
|
|
969 | (1) |
|
|
970 | (1) |
|
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980) |
|
|
971 | (1) |
|
Boy with His Hair Cut Short |
|
|
971 | (1) |
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|
971 | (1) |
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|
972 | (1) |
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|
972 | (2) |
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|
972 | (1) |
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|
973 | (1) |
|
R. S. Thomas (1913--2000) |
|
|
974 | (1) |
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|
974 | (1) |
|
|
975 | (1) |
|
John Berryman (1914--1972) |
|
|
975 | (5) |
|
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet |
|
|
975 | (2) |
|
|
975 | (2) |
|
|
977 | (1) |
|
|
977 | (3) |
|
1 (``Huffy Henry hid the day'') |
|
|
977 | (1) |
|
14 (``Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so'') |
|
|
978 | (1) |
|
29 (``There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart'') |
|
|
978 | (1) |
|
145 (``Also I love him: me he's done no wrong'') |
|
|
979 | (1) |
|
324. An Elegy for W.C.W., The Lovely Man |
|
|
979 | (1) |
|
382 (``At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well:'') |
|
|
980 | (1) |
|
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965) |
|
|
980 | (4) |
|
|
980 | (1) |
|
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner |
|
|
981 | (1) |
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|
981 | (1) |
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|
982 | (2) |
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|
984 | (1) |
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|
984 | (1) |
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|
984 | (1) |
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|
984 | (1) |
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|
985 | (1) |
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|
985 | (1) |
|
|
985 | (1) |
|
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953) |
|
|
986 | (6) |
|
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower |
|
|
986 | (1) |
|
The Hand That Signed the Paper |
|
|
987 | (1) |
|
|
987 | (1) |
|
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London |
|
|
988 | (1) |
|
|
989 | (1) |
|
In My Craft or Sullen Art |
|
|
990 | (1) |
|
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night |
|
|
991 | (1) |
|
Judith Wright (1915--2000) |
|
|
992 | (2) |
|
|
992 | (1) |
|
|
992 | (2) |
|
David Gascoyne (1916--2001) |
|
|
994 | (2) |
|
|
994 | (2) |
|
|
996 | (2) |
|
|
996 | (1) |
|
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree |
|
|
997 | (1) |
|
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000) |
|
|
998 | (3) |
|
|
998 | (1) |
|
the birth in a narrow room |
|
|
998 | (1) |
|
|
999 | (1) |
|
|
999 | (1) |
|
|
1000 | (1) |
|
|
1000 | (1) |
|
Robert Lowell (1917--1977) |
|
|
1001 | (9) |
|
Mr. Edwards and the Spider |
|
|
1001 | (2) |
|
My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow |
|
|
1003 | (3) |
|
|
1006 | (1) |
|
|
1007 | (2) |
|
|
1009 | (1) |
|
Amy Clampitt (1920--1994) |
|
|
1010 | (2) |
|
|
1010 | (1) |
|
The Cormorant in Its Element |
|
|
1011 | (1) |
|
|
1011 | (1) |
|
Keith Douglas (1920--1944) |
|
|
1012 | (2) |
|
|
1012 | (1) |
|
|
1013 | (1) |
|
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991) |
|
|
1014 | (3) |
|
|
1014 | (1) |
|
A Primer of the Daily Round |
|
|
1015 | (1) |
|
|
1015 | (1) |
|
Boy with Book of Knowledge |
|
|
1016 | (1) |
|
Strange Metamorphosis of Poets |
|
|
1017 | (1) |
|
|
1017 | (3) |
|
|
1017 | (3) |
|
|
1020 | (6) |
|
|
1020 | (1) |
|
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World |
|
|
1021 | (1) |
|
|
1022 | (1) |
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1023 | (1) |
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1024 | (1) |
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1025 | (1) |
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Philip Larkin (1922--1985) |
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1026 | (8) |
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1026 | (1) |
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1027 | (1) |
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1027 | (2) |
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1029 | (1) |
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1030 | (1) |
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1031 | (1) |
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1031 | (1) |
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1032 | (1) |
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1032 | (1) |
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1033 | (1) |
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James Dickey (1923--1997) |
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1034 | (2) |
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1034 | (1) |
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Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony |
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1035 | (1) |
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Anthony Hecht (1923--2004) |
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1036 | (7) |
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1036 | (1) |
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1037 | (1) |
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1038 | (3) |
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1041 | (1) |
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1042 | (1) |
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1043 | (1) |
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Denise Levertov (1923--1997) |
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1043 | (3) |
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1043 | (1) |
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1044 | (1) |
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1045 | (1) |
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Donald Justice (1925--2004) |
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1046 | (2) |
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1046 | (1) |
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1046 | (1) |
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Pantoum of the Great Depression |
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1047 | (1) |
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1048 | (4) |
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The Erotic Philosophers (Part Five of ``Pro Femina'') |
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1048 | (4) |
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Kenneth Koch (1925--2002) |
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1052 | (2) |
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1052 | (1) |
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Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams |
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1053 | (1) |
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1053 | (1) |
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A. R. Ammons (1926--2001) |
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1054 | (4) |
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1054 | (3) |
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1057 | (1) |
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1058 | (1) |
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James K. Baxter (1926--1972) |
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1058 | (1) |
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1058 | (1) |
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1059 | (2) |
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1059 | (1) |
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1060 | (1) |
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1060 | (1) |
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Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997) |
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1061 | (7) |
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1061 | (6) |
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1061 | (6) |
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A Supermarket in California |
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1067 | (1) |
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James Merrill (1926--1995) |
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1068 | (7) |
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1068 | (3) |
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1071 | (1) |
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1072 | (2) |
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C. (``Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked'') |
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1072 | (2) |
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1074 | (1) |
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Frank O'Hara (1926--1966) |
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1075 | (2) |
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1075 | (1) |
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1076 | (1) |
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W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926) |
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1077 | (3) |
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1077 | (2) |
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2 (``Late April and you are three; today'') |
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1077 | (1) |
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3 (``The child between them on the street'') |
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1077 | (1) |
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7 (``Here in the scuffled dust'') |
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1078 | (1) |
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10 (``The vicious winter finally yields'') |
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1078 | (1) |
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1079 | (1) |
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1080 | (4) |
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1080 | (1) |
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1081 | (2) |
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1083 | (1) |
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1083 | (1) |
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1084 | (2) |
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The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students |
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1084 | (1) |
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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps |
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1085 | (1) |
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1086 | (2) |
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1086 | (1) |
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1086 | (1) |
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1087 | (1) |
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1088 | (1) |
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Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927) |
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1088 | (1) |
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1088 | (1) |
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James Wright (1927--1980) |
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1089 | (2) |
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A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack |
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1089 | (1) |
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1090 | (1) |
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1091 | (3) |
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1091 | (3) |
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1091 | (3) |
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1094 | (1) |
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1094 | (2) |
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1094 | (2) |
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1096 | (1) |
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1096 | (3) |
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1096 | (1) |
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1097 | (2) |
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L. E. Sissman (1928--1976) |
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1099 | (1) |
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1099 | (1) |
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1099 | (1) |
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1099 | (1) |
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1100 | (4) |
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1100 | (1) |
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1101 | (1) |
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1102 | (1) |
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1103 | (1) |
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1104 | (1) |
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1104 | (1) |
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1105 | (1) |
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1105 | (6) |
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Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 |
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1105 | (6) |
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1111 | (3) |
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1111 | (1) |
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1112 | (2) |
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1114 | (8) |
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1114 | (1) |
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Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law |
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1115 | (4) |
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1119 | (2) |
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1121 | (1) |
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Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) |
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1122 | (2) |
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The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy |
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1122 | (2) |
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1122 | (1) |
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1 (``Every Friday morning my grandfather'') |
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1122 | (1) |
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2 (``All I can remember of his wife'') |
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1123 | (1) |
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1123 | (1) |
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1124 | (5) |
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1124 | (1) |
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1125 | (1) |
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Examination at the Womb-Door |
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1126 | (1) |
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1127 | (1) |
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1128 | (1) |
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1129 | (3) |
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1129 | (1) |
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1130 | (2) |
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1132 | (1) |
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1132 | (6) |
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1132 | (1) |
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1133 | (2) |
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1135 | (1) |
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1136 | (2) |
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1136 | (2) |
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1138 | (1) |
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1138 | (1) |
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1139 | (1) |
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1139 | (1) |
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1139 | (1) |
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1140 | (3) |
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1140 | (1) |
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1141 | (1) |
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VI (``The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall'') |
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1141 | (1) |
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VII (``Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools'') |
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1141 | (1) |
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VIII (``The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour'') |
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1142 | (1) |
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1142 | (1) |
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1142 | (1) |
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An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England |
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1143 | (1) |
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1143 | (1) |
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Sylvia Plath (1932--1963) |
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1143 | (8) |
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1143 | (2) |
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1145 | (2) |
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1147 | (1) |
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1148 | (3) |
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1151 | (3) |
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1151 | (1) |
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Popular Ballads of the Twentieth Century |
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1152 | (1) |
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Pete Seeger (b. 1919) Where Have All the Flowers Gone? |
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1152 | (1) |
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Bob Dylan (b. 1941) Boots of Spanish Leather |
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1153 | (1) |
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Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (b. 1934) |
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1154 | (2) |
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1154 | (1) |
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1155 | (1) |
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1156 | (2) |
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1156 | (1) |
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From the House of Yemanja |
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1157 | (1) |
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N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) |
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1158 | (1) |
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1158 | (1) |
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1158 | (1) |
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1159 | (1) |
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1159 | (1) |
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1159 | (1) |
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1159 | (1) |
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1160 | (2) |
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1160 | (1) |
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1160 | (1) |
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1161 | (1) |
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XVI (``It is true, as someone has said, that in'') |
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1161 | (1) |
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1162 | (3) |
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1162 | (1) |
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As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light |
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1163 | (1) |
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1164 | (1) |
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1165 | (1) |
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1165 | (1) |
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1165 | (1) |
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1166 | (2) |
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1166 | (1) |
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1166 | (2) |
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1168 | (3) |
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1168 | (1) |
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1168 | (3) |
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1171 | (3) |
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1171 | (3) |
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1174 | (1) |
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1174 | (2) |
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1174 | (1) |
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1175 | (1) |
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1176 | (1) |
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Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) |
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1176 | (3) |
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At the Tourist Center in Boston |
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1176 | (2) |
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1178 | (1) |
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1179 | (8) |
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1179 | (1) |
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1180 | (2) |
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1182 | (1) |
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1182 | (1) |
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1183 | (2) |
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1185 | (1) |
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1186 | (1) |
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1187 | (1) |
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1187 | (3) |
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1187 | (1) |
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1188 | (1) |
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1189 | (1) |
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1190 | (2) |
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1190 | (1) |
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1191 | (1) |
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1192 | (2) |
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1192 | (1) |
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1193 | (1) |
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1194 | (2) |
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A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford |
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1194 | (2) |
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1196 | (1) |
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1196 | (2) |
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1196 | (1) |
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1197 | (1) |
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1197 | (1) |
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1198 | (1) |
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Navidad, St. Nicholas Ave. |
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1198 | (1) |
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1199 | (1) |
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1199 | (2) |
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1199 | (1) |
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1200 | (1) |
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Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) |
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1201 | (3) |
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1201 | (2) |
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1203 | (1) |
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1204 | (2) |
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1204 | (1) |
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1205 | (1) |
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1206 | (1) |
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That the Science of Cartography Is Limited |
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1206 | (1) |
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|
1207 | (2) |
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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home |
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|
1207 | (2) |
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Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) |
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1209 | (2) |
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1209 | (1) |
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1209 | (1) |
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1210 | (1) |
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1211 | (2) |
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Courtney, Mentioned in Passing, Years After |
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1211 | (1) |
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1212 | (1) |
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Agha Shahid Ali (1949--2001) |
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1213 | (1) |
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1213 | (1) |
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1214 | (3) |
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1214 | (2) |
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1216 | (1) |
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Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) |
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1217 | (2) |
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|
1217 | (1) |
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why we ask you not to touch |
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|
1218 | (1) |
|
this poem intentionally left blank |
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1219 | (1) |
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1219 | (3) |
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1219 | (1) |
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1219 | (1) |
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The Beauty of the Husband |
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1220 | (2) |
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1220 | (2) |
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1222 | (1) |
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1222 | (1) |
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1222 | (1) |
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1223 | (3) |
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At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body |
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1223 | (3) |
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1226 | (1) |
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1226 | (5) |
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1226 | (1) |
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1227 | (4) |
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1231 | (3) |
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1231 | (2) |
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1233 | (1) |
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1234 | (2) |
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1234 | (1) |
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1235 | (1) |
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1236 | (2) |
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1236 | (2) |
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1238 | (2) |
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1238 | (1) |
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1239 | (1) |
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953) |
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1240 | (1) |
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1240 | (1) |
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1241 | (1) |
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I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move |
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1241 | (1) |
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1242 | (1) |
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Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) |
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1242 | (1) |
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1242 | (1) |
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1243 | (3) |
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1243 | (2) |
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1245 | (1) |
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1246 | (1) |
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1246 | (1) |
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1247 | (1) |
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1247 | (2) |
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1247 | (2) |
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Greg Williamson (b. 1964) |
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1249 | (2) |
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1249 | (1) |
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III. Visiting Couple Kissing and Halved Onion |
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|
1249 | (1) |
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XXV. Group Photo with Winter Trees |
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|
1249 | (1) |
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New Year's: A Short Pantoum |
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1250 | (1) |
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1251 | (26) |
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1252 | (1) |
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1253 | (7) |
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1260 | (3) |
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1263 | (12) |
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1263 | (7) |
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1270 | (2) |
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1272 | (1) |
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1272 | (2) |
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1274 | (1) |
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Suggestions for Further Reading |
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1275 | (2) |
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1277 | (22) |
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1277 | (2) |
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1279 | (5) |
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1279 | (1) |
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1280 | (4) |
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1284 | (5) |
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1284 | (1) |
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1285 | (1) |
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|
1286 | (3) |
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The Game of Interpretation |
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1289 | (7) |
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1289 | (2) |
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1291 | (1) |
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1291 | (1) |
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1292 | (1) |
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1293 | (3) |
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1296 | (1) |
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Suggestions for Further Reading |
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|
1297 | (2) |
Biographical Sketches |
|
1299 | (51) |
Permissions Acknowledgments |
|
1350 | (7) |
Index |
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