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• A Sailor's Wife
  By Matthew Prior

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  Excerpt: Quoth Richard in jest looking wistly at Nelly, Methinks child you seem something round in the belly. Nell answer'd him snappishly, how can that be, ...
• Abraham Davenport
  By John Greenleaf Whittier

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  Excerpt: In the old days (a custom laid aside With breeches and cocked hats) the people sent Their wisest men to make the public laws. And so, from a brown ...
• The Hour Before Dawn
  By William Butler Yeats

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  Excerpt: A one-legged, one-armed, one-eyed man, A bundle of rags upon a crutch, Stumbled on windy Cruachan Cursing the wind. It was as much As the one sturdy ...
• Thomas The Rhymer
  By Walter Scott (Sir)

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  Excerpt: Part First Ancient True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank; A ferlie he spied wi' his ee; And there he saw a lady bright, Come riding down by the Eildon ...
• Hymn To Science
  By Mark Akenside

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  Excerpt: Science! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine ...