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	- CHARLES LAMB A Letter to Wordsworth New Year’s Eve From On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century Witches, and Other Night Fears The Two Races of Men - WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia On his Seventy-fifth Birthday Rose Aylmer Past ruined Ilion Twenty years hence The Three Roses Dirce Well I remember how you smiled - HUGH LATIMER Sermon of the Plowers - JOHN LYLY Cupid and My Campaspe
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	- "MARTIN MARPRELATE" From Hay Any Work for Cooper [church government] - GEORGE MEREDITH Lucifer in Starlight Modern Love 3 ("This was the woman; what now of the man?") 15 ("I think she sleeps; it must be sleep, when lo"w) 16 ("In our old shipwrecked days there was an hour") 23 ("'Tis Christmas weather, and a country house") 35 ("It is no vulgar nature I have wived") 42 ("I am to follow her. There is much grace") 43 ("Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelinlik"e) 48 ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in") Dirge in Woods - JOHN STUART MILL From Coleridge - JOHN MILTON Paradise Lost: The Arguments Samson Agonistes - THOMAS MOORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms The harp that once through Tara’s halls The time I’ve lost in wooing - JAMES MORRIS The Partition of India - WILLIAM MORRIS I Know a Little Garden-Close Christ Keep the Hollow Land For the Bed at Kelmscott The Haystack in the Floods From The Earthly Paradise: An Apology A Death Song - RICHARD MULCAHY On the Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland
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	- THOMAS NASHE Spring, the Sweet Spring Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil An Invective Against Enemies of Poetry [The Defense of Plays] From The Unfortunate Traveler, or The Life of Jack Wilton [Roman Summer] - JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Tryst with Destiny - JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Doubt and Faith From Apologia Pro Vita Sua From Chapter 1. History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833 From Chapter 3. History of My Religious Opinions from 1839 to 1841 From Chapter 5. Position of My Mind Since 1845 From Liberalism - LIONEL JOHNSON The Precept of Silence Mystic and Cavalier The Dark Angel
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	- DOROTHY OSBORNE The Letters of Dorothy Osborne ["Servants"] [Fighting with Brother John]
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	- WALTER PATER From Appreciations: From Style From The Child in the House - COVENTRY PATMORE From The Angel in the House The Spirit’s Epochs The Kiss From The Unknown Eros Magna Est Veritas A Farewell - THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK The Four Ages of Poetry The War Song of Dinas Vawr - GEORGE PEELE Fair and Fair - PIERS PLOWMAN Passus 5: The Confession of Envy Passus 5: The Confession of Gluttony - ALEXANDER POPE Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated The Universal Prayer Epistle to Miss Blount The Carnation and the Butterfly From The Dunciad Ode on Solitude - MATTHEW PRIOR A True Maid A Better Answer - JOSEPH PRIESTLEY From The Present State of Europe Compared with Antient Prophecies
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	- SIR WALTER RALEGH A Report of the Truth of the Fight About the Isles of Azores... Walsinghame - DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The House of Life 4. Lovesight 49. Willowwood—1 50. Willowwood—2 51. Willowwood—3 52. Willowwood—4 63. Inclusiveness 71. The Choice—I 71. The Choice—II 73. The Choice—III 97. A Superscription 101. The One Hope She Bound Her Green Sleeve The Woodspurge The Sea-Limits The Orchard-Pit - CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Winter: My Secret - JOHN RUSKIN The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century From Lectures on Art: imperial duty
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	- SIR WALTER SCOTT Coronach From The Heart of Midlothian Lochinvar Jock of Hazeldean The Two Drovers The Dreary Change Lucy Ashton’s Song - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SONGS FROM THE PLAYS When Daisies Pied Spring Winter The Woosel Cock So Black of Hue Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred Sigh No More, Ladies Under the Greenwood Tree Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind It Was a Lover and His Lass Oh Mistress Mine Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away Hark, Hark! the Lark Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun When Daffodils Begin to Peer Full Fathom Five Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I SONNETS 56 ("Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said") 104 ("To me, fair friend, you never can be old") 118 ("Like as, to make our appetites more keen") 121 ("’Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed") 124 ("If my dear love were but the child of state") 128 ("How oft when thou, my music, music play’st") The Phoenix and the Turtle Threnos The First Part of King Henry the Fourth - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude Stanzas Written in Dejection — December 1818, near Naples To — [Music, When Soft Voices Die] O World, O Life, O Time Choruses from Hellas Worlds on Worlds The World's Great Age A Dirge To Jane. The Invitation Song of Apollo To Jane. The Invitation The Triumph of Life - RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN The School for Scandal - SIR PHILIP SIDNEY The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia [The Absent Urania] [The Country of Arcadia] Astrophil and Stella 7 ("When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes") 39 ("Come Sleep! O sleep the certain knot of peace") 61 ("Off with true sights, oft with uncallèd tears") - JOHN SKELTON Upon a Dead Man's Head To Mistress Margaret Hussey Colin Clout [The Spirituality vs. the Temporality] - CHRISTOPHER SMART A Song to David - ROBERT SOUTHEY From Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem My Days Among the Dead Are Passed - EDMUND SPENSER THE FAERIE QUEENE Book II, Canto VII Book III. Contayning the Legend of Britomartis, or of Chastitie Book VII. Mutabilitie Cantos Canto VI Canto VII The VIII Canto, unperfite An Hymne in Honour of Beautie From Amoretti Sonnet 15 ("Ye tradefull merchants, that with weary toyle") Sonnet 35 ("My hungry eyes through greedy covetize") Sonnet 37 ("What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses") Sonnet 59 ("Thrise happie she, that is so well assured") Sonnet 65 ("The doubt which ye misdeeme, faire love, is vaine") Sonnet 68 ("Most glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day") - SIR RICHARD STEELE See Addision, Joseph - LAURENCE STERNE Reply to Sancho From Tristram Shandy - JONATHAN SWIFT Abolishing of Christianity in England... From A Tale of a Tub Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift - ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE In Memory of Walter Savage Landor An Interlude In the Orchard (Provençal Burden) Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon When the Hounds of Spring Before the Beginning of Years The Garden of Proserpine From The Triumph of Time: I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother The Lake of Gaube
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	- ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Mariana Sonnet ("She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood") Maud Part 1 6.5 ("Ah, what shall I be at fifty") 6.8 ("Perhaps the smile and tender ton"e) 6.10 (""I have played with her when a child) 8 ("She came to the village church") 11 ("O let the solid ground") 12 ("Birds in the high Hall-garden") 16.3 ("Catch not my breath, O clamorous heart") 18 ("I have led her home, my love, my only friend") Part 2 4 ("O that 'twere possible") Rizpah In Love, If Love Be Love To E. FitzGerald Locksley Hall Sixty Years After By an Evolutionist June Bracken and Heather A Dedication I Stood on a Tower The Silent Voices St. Agnes’ Eve You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill at Ease Lines Sonnet Move Eastward, Happy Earth The Revenge The Eagle: A Fragment From The Princess Sweet and Low The Splendor Falls Ask Me No More Come Down, O Maid Flower in the Crannied Wall Sonnet From Maud In the Valley of Cauteretz From Idylls of the King Dedication Pelleas and Ettarre The Passing of Arthur Northern Farmer To Virgil “Frater Ave atque Vale” The Dawn Crossing the Bar - EDWARD THOMAS The Path The Gallows Ambition A Private - FRANCIS THOMPSON The Kingdom of God The Hound of Heaven - JAMES THOMSON An Ode on Aeolus’s Harp From The Seasons Summer DAWN SWIMMING EVENING Winter A SNOWSTORM - CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE Tichborne’s Elegy
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	- HENRY VAUGHAN A Rhapsody I Walked the Other Day (To Spend My Hour)
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	- ELHANAN WINCHESTER From The Three Woe-Trumpets - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ode to Duty The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind Book Seventh. Residence in London Book Ninth. Residence in France From Descriptive Sketches From The Excursion: Book 3, Despondency A Poet!—He Hath Put His Heart to School To My Sister The Green Linnet Composed in the Valley near Dover, On the Day of Landing Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake Afterthought Yew Trees The Two April Mornings She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways - ISABELLA WHITNEY Will and Testament - OSCAR WILDE Sonnet: On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters Symphony in Yellow Hélas E Tenebris - Wyatt, Sir Thomas (the Elder) Like to the Unmeasurable Mountains Lux, My Fair Falcon Tangled I Was in Love’s Snare In Spain And wilt thou leave me thus?
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