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Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book II.

© John Gay

Of Walking the Streets by Day.

Thus far the Muse has trac'd in useful lays

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The Ghost - Book I

© Charles Churchill

With eager search to dart the soul,

Curiously vain, from pole to pole,

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Ode On Venice

© George Gordon Byron

I.
Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls
  Are level with the waters, there shall be
A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls,
  A loud lament along the sweeping sea!
If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee,

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I.

© George Gordon Byron

Nay, smile not at my sullen brow,
Alas! I cannot smile again:
Yet Heaven avert that ever thou
Shouldst weep, and haply weep in vain.

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Father, Most High, Be With Us

© Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

Father, Most High, be with us,

Unseen, Thy goodness showing,

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The Triumph Of Melancholy

© James Beattie

Memory, be still! why throng upon the thought
These scenes deep-stain'd with Sorrow's sable dye?
Hast thou in store no joy-illumined draught,
To cheer bewilder'd Fancy's tearful eye?

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Lament for Chaucer

© Thomas Hoccleve

ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable,

This landes verray tresor and richesse!

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The Man Forsworn

© William Watson

Who draws to-day the unrighteous sword?
  Behold him stand, the Man Forsworn,
The warrior of the faithless word,
  The pledge disowned, the covenant torn,
Who prates of honour, truth, and trust,
Ere he profanes them in the dust.

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The Third Monarchy, being the Grecian, beginning under Alexander the Great in the 112. Olympiad.

© Anne Bradstreet

Great Alexander was wise Philips son,

He to Amyntas, Kings of Macedon;

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Vision of Columbus – Book 3

© Joel Barlow

Now, twice twelve years, the children of the skies

Beheld in peace their growing empire rise;

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God

© Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin

O Thou, who's infinite in space,

Alive in ever-moving matter,

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The Plaint Of King Yew's Forsaken Wife

© Confucius

  Kind and impartial, nature's laws
  No odious difference make.
  But providence appears unkind;
  Events are often hard.
  This man, to principle untrue,
  Denies me his regard.

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In The Garden VI: A Peach

© Edward Dowden

IF any sense in mortal dust remains

When mine has been refin'd from flower to flower,

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David

© Thomas Parnell

When e'er his flocks the lovely shepherd drove
To neighb'ring waters, to the neighb'ring grove;
To Jordan's flood refresh'd by cooling wind,
Or Cedron's brook to mossy banks confin'd,
In easy notes and guise of lowly swain,
'Twas thus he charm'd and taught the listning train.

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Tale XV

© George Crabbe

transgress'd,
And while the anger kindled in his breast,
The pain must be endured that could not be

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The Columbiad: Book I

© Joel Barlow

Ah, lend thy friendly shroud to veil my sight,
That these pain'd eyes may dread no more the light;
These welcome shades shall close my instant doom,
And this drear mansion moulder to a tornb.

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Book Of The Duchesse

© Geoffrey Chaucer

THE PROEM


 I have gret wonder, be this lighte,

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To A Gentleman

© Mary Barber

I hope, Sir, by this you have found your Account,
In visiting Airy, and seeing his Mount:
If Froth can delight you, you're wonderous happy;
And we know it gives Joy on a Bottle of Nappy.