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By Love's own self, but with so curious draught,
| 9 | 527 |
Astrophel and Stella
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FStella
|
I's mos' 'shamed myse'f.
| 4 | 28 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Opportunity
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FOpportunity
|
For the song is sweet, so sweet.
| 7 | 14 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Two Songs
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FTwo%5FSongs
|
The bold winds speechless and the orb below
| 8 | 30 |
The Rugged Pyrrhus
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FRugged%5FPyrrhus
|
Because of an old man weeping,
| 6 | 5 |
A Highland Regiment/In Memoriam
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FHighland%5FRegiment%2FIn%5FMemoriam
|
“What are you doing round this house at night?”
| 9 | 77 |
North of Boston/The Fear
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/North%5Fof%5FBoston%2FThe%5FFear
|
Strict purity from loose desires.
| 5 | 82 |
The Works of Henry Fielding/Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, Modernised In Burlesque Verse
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FPart%5Fof%5FJuvenal%27s%5FSixth%5FSatire%2C%5FModernised%5FIn%5FBurlesque%5FVerse
|
And the bluish wreath of far Apennine hills
| 8 | 58 |
The Soul Of A Century/Donatello, A Legend
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FDonatello%2C%5FA%5FLegend
|
Phyllis, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day.
| 9 | 15 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Phyllis
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FPhyllis
|
And the gulfs are over them,
| 6 | 7 |
To the Darkness
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To%5Fthe%5FDarkness
|
Stain our immortal birth:
| 4 | 3,009 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
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Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth immense,
| 9 | 11 |
Song XXV
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song%5FXXV
|
Myngs riding hard to snatch an innings.
| 7 | 358 |
Reynard The Fox Part II
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
|
'Mid all the glories glowing round its brow.
| 8 | 14 |
An Anthology of Australian Verse/Love
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FLove
|
Of Kenesaw and Atlanta,
| 4 | 99 |
Poems of Cheer/After the Battles are over
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FAfter%5Fthe%5FBattles%5Fare%5Fover
|
Always cumbered and distrest.
| 4 | 38 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1627/The Praise of Poverty
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F126%2FIssue%5F1627%2FThe%5FPraise%5Fof%5FPoverty
|
it is the measure of the difference
| 7 | 154 |
The Poem-book of the Gael/The Saltair na Rann/The Creation of the Universe
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoem%2Dbook%5Fof%5Fthe%5FGael%2FThe%5FSaltair%5Fna%5FRann%2FThe%5FCreation%5Fof%5Fthe%5FUniverse
|
In buying things perfum'd, we aske; if there
| 8 | 13 |
Poems (Donne)/Elegie II
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5F%28Donne%29%2FElegie%5FII
|
And oh! what joy it was to wake—
| 8 | 16 |
Love Dreaming of Death
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love%5FDreaming%5Fof%5FDeath
|
Once dey was a ole black bah,
| 7 | 22 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/A Cabin Tale
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FA%5FCabin%5FTale
|
Over the grass and got together,
| 6 | 279 |
Reynard The Fox Part II
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
|
I have wasted the light and oil of life's flame—
| 10 | 36 |
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1824/Raphael Showing his Mistress her Portrait
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1824%2FRaphael%5FShowing%5Fhis%5FMistress%5Fher%5FPortrait
|
Are thick and heavy; briers are on its banks,
| 9 | 43 |
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Forget Me Not, 1824/Ellen
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FForget%5FMe%5FNot%2C%5F1824%2FEllen
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But would no more with him remain,
| 7 | 316 |
Wife of Beith
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wife%5Fof%5FBeith
|
Ser Charls a Murrè in that place,
| 7 | 229 |
The Ballad of Chevy Chase (no source)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBallad%5Fof%5FChevy%5FChase%5F%28no%5Fsource%29
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"Gainst which he rear'd the Crescent high,
| 7 | 146 |
The Siege of Corinth
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
|
There's huntsman, there. The fox come past
| 7 | 636 |
Reynard The Fox Part II
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FII
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Has saved me in this day.”
| 6 | 37 |
Justice (Kipling)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Justice%5F%28Kipling%29
|
I am afraid; but believe in you; and I trust to the teacher:
| 13 | 59 |
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/8
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F8
|
Nor deem thyself upon a desert shore,
| 7 | 3,292 |
The Christian Year
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FChristian%5FYear
|
Of war and council, had but time to think
| 9 | 91 |
Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Amulet, 1833/Agatha
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FLetitia%5FElizabeth%5FLandon%5F%28L%2E%5FE%2E%5FL%2E%29%5Fin%5FThe%5FAmulet%2C%5F1833%2FAgatha
|
And wilt thou leave me thus,
| 6 | 11 |
The Appeal (Wyatt)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAppeal%5F%28Wyatt%29
|
Trousers, waistcoat, and coat,
| 4 | 43 |
Ode to My Clothes
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode%5Fto%5FMy%5FClothes
|
I thought of all that John had borne
| 8 | 15 |
Which Shall It Be?
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Which%5FShall%5FIt%5FBe%3F
|
Spare not in such a cause. Spend all the pow'rs
| 10 | 675 |
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 5
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F5
|
Lean as he is, I saw him grapple once
| 9 | 41 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1629/The Swine-herd of Gadara
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F126%2FIssue%5F1629%2FThe%5FSwine%2Dherd%5Fof%5FGadara
|
A že je mrtev, dvakrát, třikrát rcete,
| 7 | 3 |
Modern Czech Poetry/Pasquino on the death of Pope Hadrian VI.
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern%5FCzech%5FPoetry%2FPasquino%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fdeath%5Fof%5FPope%5FHadrian%5FVI%2E
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Was when her voice grew feeble, and her cheek
| 9 | 138 |
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Dramatic Scene
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1823%2FDramatic%5FScene
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And the fourth string answers sadly
| 6 | 57 |
The Soul Of A Century/A Gypsy's violin
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FA%5FGypsy%27s%5Fviolin
|
Oh, what with these had I to do?
| 8 | 13 |
High and Low
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/High%5Fand%5FLow
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And take the warm and trembling nymph
| 7 | 15 |
The Barrier (Smith)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBarrier%5F%28Smith%29
|
He bore, this gentle Pennsylvanian sire,
| 6 | 66 |
The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming
|
And the old tones were very mild,
| 7 | 367 |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed/Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed%2FSword%5FBlades%5Fand%5FPoppy%5FSeed
|
His wild-wood fancy and impetuous zeal,)
| 6 | 5 |
A Tombless Epitaph (unsourced)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FTombless%5FEpitaph%5F%28unsourced%29
|
By the chords you would awaken.
| 6 | 553 |
The Siege of Corinth
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
|
France and Spain with their warrior train bowed downbefore her as thrall to king;
| 14 | 9 |
Astrophel and Other Poems/England: an Ode
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Astrophel%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FEngland%3A%5Fan%5FOde
|
How at the dance he had broken through shyness; for four days after
| 13 | 117 |
The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich/4
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBothie%5Fof%5FToper%2Dna%2Dfuosich%2F4
|
Where neither bird
| 3 | 13 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/On the River
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FOn%5Fthe%5FRiver
|
And your barque sped on the shoals.
| 7 | 8 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Communion
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FCommunion
|
And yet forſooth ye girn and grumble,
| 7 | 494 |
Ancient history of three bonnets
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets
|
But he had traced it upward to its source,
| 9 | 25 |
A Tombless Epitaph (unsourced)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FTombless%5FEpitaph%5F%28unsourced%29
|
Moustache clipped toothbrush-wise, and jaws
| 5 | 459 |
Reynard The Fox Part I
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reynard%5FThe%5FFox%5FPart%5FI
|
Little deem'd she such a day
| 6 | 1,107 |
The Siege of Corinth
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSiege%5Fof%5FCorinth
|
No one heard the cry of woe
| 7 | 29 |
The Burning Ship at Sea
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FBurning%5FShip%5Fat%5FSea
|
Truth is not local; God alike pervades
| 7 | 119 |
Retirement (Cowper)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Retirement%5F%28Cowper%29
|
I saw the doubt, the anguish, the dismay,
| 8 | 597 |
The Forest Sanctuary, and Other Poems/The Forest Sanctuary
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FForest%5FSanctuary%2C%5Fand%5FOther%5FPoems%2FThe%5FForest%5FSanctuary
|
perfect with suffering for her Lord's embrace.
| 7 | 91 |
Towards the Source : 1894-97 : I : 10
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Towards%5Fthe%5FSource%5F%3A%5F1894%2D97%5F%3A%5FI%5F%3A%5F10
|
Thus sits the soul and marks with eye intent
| 9 | 7 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Behind The Arras
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FBehind%5FThe%5FArras
|
Which at their looks did yield like melting snow:
| 9 | 364 |
St. Peter's Complaint
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/St%2E%5FPeter%27s%5FComplaint
|
Meantime the Goddess I'll no more importune,
| 7 | 618 |
Beppo (Lord Byron)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beppo%5F%28Lord%5FByron%29
|
How can we trust the hope of life to thee?
| 10 | 42 |
Landon in The Literary Gazette 1822/Poetic Sketches - Sketch the Second
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Landon%5Fin%5FThe%5FLiterary%5FGazette%5F1822%2FPoetic%5FSketches%5F%2D%5FSketch%5Fthe%5FSecond
|
To a rash and sudden spring —
| 7 | 58 |
Alice Ayres (Blake)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%5FAyres%5F%28Blake%29
|
That fire is hot and ocean deep,
| 7 | 96 |
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On%5Fthe%5FDisastrous%5FSpread%5Fof%5FAestheticism%5Fin%5Fall%5FClasses
|
The love and pain hast thou forgotten, dear,
| 8 | 9 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1716/Songs from H. Heine's "Buch der Lieder"
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1716%2FSongs%5Ffrom%5FH%2E%5FHeine%27s%5F%22Buch%5Fder%5FLieder%22
|
On the timbers grey and a charred hut frame,
| 9 | 76 |
An Anthology of Australian Verse/The Old Whim Horse
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FAnthology%5Fof%5FAustralian%5FVerse%2FThe%5FOld%5FWhim%5FHorse
|
In glided Townley's murder'd ghost,
| 5 | 3 |
Townley's Ghost
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Townley%27s%5FGhost
|
Words are such idle things;
| 5 | 14 |
Poems of Cheer/Friendship
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FFriendship
|
With God and my own soul. I go to pray:
| 10 | 90 |
The Upper Slopes
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FUpper%5FSlopes
|
To yonder vales I often went
| 6 | 31 |
Verses by Lady Geralda
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Verses%5Fby%5FLady%5FGeralda
|
Fly high, you joyous flag of streaming crimson red,
| 9 | 25 |
The Soul Of A Century/My red and white flag
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSoul%5FOf%5FA%5FCentury%2FMy%5Fred%5Fand%5Fwhite%5Fflag
|
Some old emotion long had ceased to live;
| 8 | 2,769 |
Maurine And Other Poems/Maurine
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FMaurine
|
And groves, if unharmonious, yet secure
| 6 | 734 |
The Poetical Works of William Cowper (Benham)/The Task/Book 3
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FPoetical%5FWorks%5Fof%5FWilliam%5FCowper%5F%28Benham%29%2FThe%5FTask%2FBook%5F3
|
Leave every other hope and joy
| 6 | 52 |
Call Me Away
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Call%5FMe%5FAway
|
Forgetting and forgotten and unknown
| 5 | 7 |
Maurine And Other Poems/If
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maurine%5FAnd%5FOther%5FPoems%2FIf
|
Nor Flander’s cheer lets not my sight to deem
| 9 | 95 |
Of the Courtier's Life
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of%5Fthe%5FCourtier%27s%5FLife
|
Oh, no—the world was newly crown'd
| 6 | 7 |
Ballad (Hood; "It was not in the Winter")
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballad%5F%28Hood%3B%5F%22It%5Fwas%5Fnot%5Fin%5Fthe%5FWinter%22%29
|
She had dined not long since at a rustic retreat,Near Kennington Oval, or Square,
| 14 | 33 |
Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 2/The mistake
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Once%5Fa%5FWeek%5F%28magazine%29%2FSeries%5F1%2FVolume%5F2%2FThe%5Fmistake
|
With the treble high an' meller,
| 6 | 35 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/The Ol' Tunes
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FThe%5FOl%27%5FTunes
|
A. C. to A. B. and B. C. to B. A.
| 11 | 36 |
A Mathematical Problem
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FMathematical%5FProblem
|
A spirit form the dead they deem him first:
| 9 | 571 |
The poetical works of Thomas Campbell/Gertrude of Wyoming
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5Fpoetical%5Fworks%5Fof%5FThomas%5FCampbell%2FGertrude%5Fof%5FWyoming
|
For Fools Admire, but Men of Sense Approve;
| 8 | 343 |
An Essay on Criticism
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An%5FEssay%5Fon%5FCriticism
|
And solitary thought,
| 3 | 261 |
A Little Child's Monument/Old Scenes revisited
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A%5FLittle%5FChild%27s%5FMonument%2FOld%5FScenes%5Frevisited
|
Tell her I bring the horoscope myself:
| 7 | 54 |
The Waste Land (Eliot, 1922)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWaste%5FLand%5F%28Eliot%2C%5F1922%29
|
And drunk in dressing-rooms.
| 4 | 48 |
The Song Against Grocers
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FSong%5FAgainst%5FGrocers
|
Motionless eyes that now appear
| 5 | 412 |
May (Mácha)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/May%5F%28M%C3%A1cha%29
|
Because their feet were overbold.
| 5 | 12 |
The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 7/The Skater
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FAtlantic%5FMonthly%2FVolume%5F2%2FNumber%5F7%2FThe%5FSkater
|
We'd quickly make him mend his pace,
| 7 | 24 |
The Works of Henry Fielding/A Sailor's Song
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWorks%5Fof%5FHenry%5FFielding%2FA%5FSailor%27s%5FSong
|
When the spring sends forth an awakening voice
| 8 | 236 |
Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems/A Spirit's Return
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs%5Fof%5Fthe%5FAffections%2C%5Fwith%5FOther%5FPoems%2FA%5FSpirit%27s%5FReturn
|
And the Queensland sheds begun.
| 5 | 24 |
Northward to the Sheds
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Northward%5Fto%5Fthe%5FSheds
|
To yet sublimer joys —
| 5 | 19 |
Marsupial Bill
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marsupial%5FBill
|
How they glow, and what bon mots they utter!
| 9 | 7 |
Poems of Cheer/In the crowd
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems%5Fof%5FCheer%2FIn%5Fthe%5Fcrowd
|
Its windows are high, narrow, tall,
| 6 | 190 |
The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Spectre's Bride
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCzechoslovak%5FReview%2FVolume%5F3%2FSpectre%27s%5FBride
|
— But who is that on the other side of you?
| 11 | 332 |
The Waste Land (Eliot, 1922)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FWaste%5FLand%5F%28Eliot%2C%5F1922%29
|
Only Thyself hath afflicted thee!
| 5 | 59 |
Natural Theology (Kipling)
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Natural%5FTheology%5F%28Kipling%29
|
Then blessed, forsooth, will be my lot,And great indeed Bohemia’s fame.”
| 11 | 9 |
Bohemian legends and other poems/John Huss
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bohemian%5Flegends%5Fand%5Fother%5Fpoems%2FJohn%5FHuss
|
"Take thy banner! and, beneath
| 5 | 19 |
Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hymn%5Fof%5Fthe%5FMoravian%5FNuns%5Fof%5FBethlehem
|
Between ours and her family;
| 5 | 379 |
Ancient history of three bonnets
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ancient%5Fhistory%5Fof%5Fthree%5Fbonnets
|
Their foremost holes carved from a crowded mass
| 8 | 123 |
The Creek of the Four Graves
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FCreek%5Fof%5Fthe%5FFour%5FGraves
|
Of earthly fame or eulogy.
| 5 | 21 |
Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1720/Matthias
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Littell%27s%5FLiving%5FAge%2FVolume%5F133%2FIssue%5F1720%2FMatthias
|
We strum our banjo-strings and call them lyres.
| 8 | 22 |
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar/Prometheus
|
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%5FComplete%5FPoems%5Fof%5FPaul%5FLaurence%5FDunbar%2FPrometheus
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