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| Introduction | |
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| The Ruin | |
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| London Bridge | |
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| from Chronicle | |
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| from The Canterbury Tales | |
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| Ring-a ring o'roses | |
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| When Adam delved | |
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| London lickpenny | |
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| from To the city of London | |
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| Mother Shipton's prophecy | |
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| The magnificat from the Bible translated by William Tyndale | |
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| from Prothalamion | |
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| Oranges and lemons | |
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| Lines | |
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| To his son | |
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| Elegy for himself | |
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| Queen Elizabeth's speech at Tilbury | |
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| from Richard III | |
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| from King Lear | |
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| All the World's a Stage | |
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| from The tragedy of Dr. Faustus | |
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| from Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne | |
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| Life | |
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| from The poly-olbion | |
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| Verses on London Bridge | |
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| In Westminster Abbey | |
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| from The Thames | |
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| from Drunken Barnaby | |
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| To Althea from prison | |
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| His tears to Thamasis | |
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| from Ode on leaving the great town | |
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| When the assault was intended to the city | |
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| Miller of Wandsworth | |
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| from one of James Shirley's dramas | |
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| from Upon the death of his late Highness the Lord Protector | |
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| from An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland | |
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| A poem on St. James's Park as lately improved by His Majesty | |
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| An anonymous ditty on the London spa at Clerkenwell | |
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| Lusts of all sorts | |
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| Vauxhall Gardens | |
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| The bailiff's daughter of Islington | |
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| from Annus Mirabilis : the year of wonders | |
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| from Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged | |
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| from On poetry : a rhapsody | |
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| Two couplets composed by Alexander Pope; one for the collar of a dog belonging to Frederick, Prince of Wales, the other addressed to his own kind | |
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| Verse | |
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| from Epistle to the Right Honourable William Pulteney, Esq | |
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| from About in London | |
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| from The distressed poet | |
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| High Street Kensington | |
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| from London | |
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| from London suburbs | |
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| London | |
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| from Liberty | |
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| Lines | |
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| Epitaph for a goldfinch | |
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| London from Westminster Bridge | |
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| London, MDCCCII | |
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| from On first looking into Chapman's Homer | |
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| Lines on the mermaid tavern | |
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| Ode to a nightingale | |
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| All on that magic list depends | |
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| Piccadilly | |
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| Lines written in Kensington Gardens | |
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| from Mr. Molony's account of the crystal palace | |
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| Fog | |
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| The waterman | |
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| The embankment | |
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| A ballad of London | |
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| Impression de Nuit | |
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| Symphony in yellow | |
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| City nights | |
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| from London nights | |
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| In St. James's Park, a prose poem | |
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| London | |
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| Vesperal | |
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| from Vagabonds | |
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| from Villes | |
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| from Metropolitan | |
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| London | |
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| By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross | |
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| To Merry London | |
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| A London fete | |
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| Sir Christopher Wren | |
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| Pall Mall | |
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| from The song of the ill-loved, to Paul Leautaud | |
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| Envoi | |
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| At Lord's | |
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| from Embankment at night | |
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| Ballad of the Londoner | |
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| The balland of Camden Town | |
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| The garrett | |
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| The garden | |
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| London revisited | |
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| Slough | |
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| In Westminster Abbey | |
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| Monody on the death of Aldersgate Street Station | |
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| London Airport | |
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| Incident in Chapel Market | |
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| Bar Italia | |
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| Lonely hearts | |
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| Photo in St. James's Park | |
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| Erratum | |
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| London nautical | |
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| Previously on 'London ways' | |
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| Schmaltz | |
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| Perhaps you have seen dreams | |
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| The deterioration of dignity | |
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| London | |
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| On Shepherd's Bush roundabout | |
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| The London breed | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index of first lines | |
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| Index of poem titles | |