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• Meg Merrilies
  By John Keats

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  Excerpt: 1. Old Meg she was a gypsy; And liv'd upon the moors: Her bed it was the brown heath turf, And her house was out of doors. 2. Her apples were ...
• A Night-piece by Millet
  By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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  Excerpt: Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Mirth of moonlight where the storm leaves free Heaven awhile, for all the wrath of waking Wind and sea. ...
• Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
  By Walt Whitman

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  Excerpt: Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also; Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles! Earth to a chamber of mourning turns, I hear the ...
• Hymn to The Winds
  By Joachim du Bellay

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  Excerpt: [The winds are invoked by the winnowers of corn.] To you, troop so fleet, That with winged wandering feet, Through the wide world pass, And with ...
• Two Lovers
  By James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis)

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  Excerpt: Their eyes met; flashed an instant like swift swords That leapt unparring to each other's heart, Jarring convulsion through the inmost chords; Then ...