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| from Songs of Innocence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Lamb | |
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| The Ecchoing Green | |
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| The Chimney Sweeper | |
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| Infant Joy | |
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| On Another's Sorrow | |
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| The School Boy | |
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| from Songs of Experience | |
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| The Clod & the Pebble | |
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| The Sick Rose | |
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| The Fly | |
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| The Tyger | |
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| The Garden of Love | |
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| London | |
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| The Human Abstract | |
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| Infant Sorrow | |
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| A Poison Tree | |
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| Auguries of Innocence | |
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| from Milton | |
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| Jerusalem | |
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| 'But turning toward Ololon in terrible majesty Milton' | |
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| To Morning | |
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| from Visions of the Daughters of Albion | |
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| Auld Lang Syne | |
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| Green Grow the Rashes | |
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| Coming Through the Rye | |
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| For A' That | |
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| Whistle, and I'll come to You, My Lad | |
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| A Red, Red Rose | |
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| To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest with the Plough | |
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| O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast | |
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| Hay Making | |
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| Dover Cliffs | |
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| The Sleeping Beauty | |
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| Ginevra | |
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| A Wish | |
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| Kilmeny | |
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| A Boy's Song | |
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| Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey | |
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| Lucy Gray | |
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| The Fountain | |
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| Michael | |
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| Lucy | |
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| Resolution and Independence | |
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| Sonnets | |
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| London, 1802 | |
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| 'It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free' | |
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| Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | |
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| The Solitary Reaper | |
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| from The Prelude | |
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| from The Lay of the Last Minstrel | |
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| The Minstrel | |
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| Melrose Abbey | |
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| Love | |
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| Nature's Sympathy with the Poet | |
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| Patriotism | |
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| Lochinvar | |
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| from The Lady of the Lake | |
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| Flowers and Trees | |
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| Boat Song | |
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| Coronach | |
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| Ballad: Alice Brand | |
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| Harp of the North, Farewell! | |
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| from Rokeby | |
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| Song: Brignall Banks | |
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| Songs from the Novels | |
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| Hie Away, Hie Away | |
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| Lucy Ashton's Song | |
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| Sound, Sound the Clarion | |
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| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | |
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| Dejection: An Ode | |
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| Work Without Hope | |
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| Kubla Khan | |
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| To a Young Ass | |
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| This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison | |
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| The Homeric Hexameter | |
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| After Blenheim | |
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| Among His Books | |
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| The Inchcape Rock | |
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| Bishop Hatto and the Rats | |
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| The Old Familiar Faces | |
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| The Triumph of the Whale | |
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| To Night | |
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| Rose Aylmer | |
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| On His Seventy-fifth Birthday | |
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| Dirce | |
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| Playhouse Musings | |
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| Ye Mariners of England | |
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| The Soldier's Dream | |
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| The Minstrel Boy | |
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| She is Far from the Land | |
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| Pro Patria Mori | |
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| Echoes | |
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| The Journey Onwards | |
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| Battle Song | |
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| When Wilt Thou Save the People? | |
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| Spring | |
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| Song | |
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| 'A wet sheet and a flowing sea' | |
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| Abou Ben Adhem | |
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| Jenny Kissed Me | |
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| The Grasshopper and the Cricket | |
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| The Grave of Love | |
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| from Nightmare Abbey | |
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| Three Men of Gotham | |
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| from Maid Marian | |
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| Robin Hood and the Grey Friars | |
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| Over, Over | |
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| from Crotchet Castle | |
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| The Priest and the Mulberry Tree | |
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| The War Song of Dinas Vawr | |
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| The Leveller | |
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| She Walks in Beauty | |
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| The Destruction of Sennacherib | |
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| from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | |
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| Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill | |
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| from Stanzas | |
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| 'When a man hath no freedom' | |
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| Prometheus | |
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| from Don Juan | |
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| Vision of Judgment | |
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| The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna | |
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| Song: 'Oh say not that my heart is cold' | |
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| Song: To Mary | |
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| The Mask of Anarchy | |
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| England in 1819 | |
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| Ozymandias | |
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| Ode to the West Wind | |
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| To a Skylark | |
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| To the Moon | |
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| Summer and Winter | |
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| Love's Philosophy | |
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| Adonais | |
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| One Word is Too Often Profaned | |
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| Music, When Soft Voices Die | |
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| Written in Northampton County Asylum | |
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| Noon | |
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| After Reading in a Letter Proposals for Building a Cottage | |
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| Sudden Shower | |
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| from The Flitting | |
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| Sonnets | |
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| To ****** | |
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| 'How many bards gild the lapses of time!' | |
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| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
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| On the Grasshopper and Cricket 'Happy is England! I could be content' | |
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| from Endymion | |
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| The Eve of St. Agnes | |
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| Ode to a Nightingale | |
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| Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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| Ode to Psyche | |
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| Ode: 'Bards of Passion and of Mirth' | |
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| To Autumn | |
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| Ode on Melancholy | |
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| from Hyperion | |
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| On Oxford. A Parody | |
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| La Belle Dame Sans Merci | |
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| The Loveliness of Love | |
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| Song: 'Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers' | |
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| She was a Queen | |
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| Song: 'She is not fair to outward view' | |
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| To a Lofty Beauty, from her Poor Kinsman | |
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| I've Plucked the Berry | |
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| A Novel of High Life | |
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| Autumn | |
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| The Bridge of Sighs | |
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| I remember, I remember | |
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| Ballad: Time of Roses | |
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| Horatius | |
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| The Battle of Naseby | |
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| Epitaph on a Jacobite | |
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| The Armada | |
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| The Wife A-Lost | |
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| The Wind at the Door | |
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| The Vicar | |
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| School and Schoolfellows | |
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| The Nameless One | |
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| Dark Rosaleen | |
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| from Death's Jest Book | |
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| Sailors' Song | |
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| Wolfram's Dirge | |
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| Dream-Pedlary | |
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| And Shall Trelawny Die? | |
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| Are They Not All Ministering Spirits? | |
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| The Shandon Bells | |
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| from Aurora Leigh | |
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| The Sweetness of England | |
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| The Cry of the Children | |
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| Cowper's Grave | |
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| The Sleep | |
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| from Sonnets from the Portuguese | |
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| 'I thought once how Theocritus had sung' | |
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| 'Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart' | |
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| 'Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor' | |
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| 'Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand' | |
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| 'What can I give thee back, O liberal' | |
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| 'Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed' | |
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| 'If thou must love me, let it be for nought' | |
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| 'My letters! all dead paper, ... mute and white!' | |
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| 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' | |
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| The Irish Emigrant | |
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| Old Song | |
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| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur | |
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| Mariana | |
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| The Lady of Shallot | |
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| The Lotos-Eaters | |
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| Ulysses | |
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| Morte D'Arthur | |
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| from The Princess | |
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| 'Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean' | |
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| 'Home they brought her warrior dead' | |
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| 'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white' | |
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| from In Memoriam | |
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| from Maud | |
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| The Brook | |
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| The Charge of the Light Brigade | |
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| Northern Farmer: New Style | |
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| 'Come not, when I am dead' | |
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| Little Billee | |
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| The Ballad of Bouillabaisse | |
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| The Dong with a Luminous Nose | |
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| Limericks | |
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| 'There was an Old Person of Basing' | |
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| 'There was an Old Man of Whitehaven' | |
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| 'There was an Old Man of Thermopylae' | |
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| 'There was an Old Man who screamed out' | |
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| 'There was an Old Person of Bow' | |
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| 'How pleasant to know Mr Lear!' | |
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| from The Pied Piper of Hamelin | |
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| Fra Lippo Lippi | |
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| Two in the Campagna | |
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| The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church | |
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| Caliban upon Setebos | |
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| Remembrance | |
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| The Old Stoic | |
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| My Lady's Grave | |
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| Last Lines | |
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| A Death Scene | |
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| from Amours de Voyage | |
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| Ode to the North-East Wind | |
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| The Sands of Dee | |
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| Young and Old | |
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| The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire | |
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| The Old Oak Tree at Hatfield Broadoak | |
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| Shakespeare | |
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| The Scholar Gipsy | |
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| Dover Beach | |
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| Heraclitus | |
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| from The Angel in the House | |
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| The Toys | |
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| Four Ducks on a Pond | |
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| The Blessed Damozel | |
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| Sibylla Palmifera | |
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| On Refusal of Aid between Nations | |
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| from Modern Love | |
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| Goblin Market | |
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| Remember | |
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| 'A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break' | |
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| Song | |
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| Ballad | |
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| from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | |
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| 'Will You Walk a Little Faster?' | |
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| from Through the Looking-Glass | |
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| Jabberwocky | |
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| The Sun Was Shining On The Sea | |
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| from The Hunting of the Snark | |
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| The Baker's Tale | |
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| The Vanishing | |
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| To Peace | |
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| Summer Dawn | |
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| The Haystack in the Floods | |
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| Chorus from 'Atalanta' | |
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| A Forsaken Garden | |
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| Sonnet | |
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| The Ballad of 'Beau Brocade' | |
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| I Look into My Glass | |
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| Drummer Hodge | |
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| To Lizbie Browne | |
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| The Self-Unseeing | |
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| A Church Romance | |
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| Channel Firing | |
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| The Oxen | |
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| Midnight on the Great Western | |
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| In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' | |
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| Afterwards | |
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| The Going | |
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| Rain on a Grave | |
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| I Found Her Out There | |
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| The Voice | |
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| After a Journey | |
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| Beeny Cliff | |
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| At Castle Boterel | |
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| Heaven-Haven | |
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| The Habit of Perfection | |
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| The Wreck of the 'Deutschland' | |
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| God's Grandeur | |
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| The Windhover | |
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| Pied Beauty | |
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| In the Valley of the Elwy | |
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| Duns Scotus's Oxford | |
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| Andromeda | |
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| The Candle Indoors | |
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| Felix Randal | |
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| Spring and Fall | |
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| 'As kingfishers catch fire' | |
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| 'No worst, there is none' | |
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| 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day' | |
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| In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez | |
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| 'Thou art indeed just, Lord' | |
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| To R.B. | |
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| London Snow | |
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| On a Dead Child | |
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| 'I love all beauteous things' | |
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| Christ in the Universe | |
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| At Night | |
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| Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves | |
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| The Vagabond | |
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| Easter Day | |
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| E Tenebris | |
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| The Ballad of Reading Gaol | |
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| Bredon Hill | |
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| 'On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble' | |
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| 'Into my heart an air that kills' | |
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| The Carpenter's Son | |
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| Tommy | |
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| Recessional | |
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| The Way Through the Woods | |
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| Mandalay | |
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| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
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| The Fiddler of Dooney | |
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| No Second Troy | |
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| The Fascination of What's Difficult | |
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| To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing | |
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| Beggar to Beggar Cried | |
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| The Magi | |
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| A Coat | |
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| Men Improve With the Years | |
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| The Collar-Bone of a Hare | |
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| On Being Asked for a War Poem | |
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| Easter 1916 | |
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| The Leaders of the Crowd | |
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| The Second Coming | |
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| Sailing to Byzantium | |
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| A Prayer for My Son | |
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| Leda and the Swan | |
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| All Souls' Night | |
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| Death | |
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| For Anne Gregory | |
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| Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop | |
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| The Spur | |
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| from Under Ben Bulben | |
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| Collins | |
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| The Dark Angel | |
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| Sea Love | |
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| The Cenotaph | |
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| In the Fields | |
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| I So Liked Spring | |
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| June, 1915 | |
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| The Trees are Down | |
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| The South Country | |
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| The Evenlode | |
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| The Statue | |
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| Henry King | |
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| Jim | |
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| Lord Finchley | |
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| The Listeners | |
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| Snow | |
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| Song of the Mad Prince | |
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| The Rolling English Road | |
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| Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: an Ode | |
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| Femina Contra Mundum | |
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| A Certain Evening | |
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| Sea-Fever | |
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| A Fellow Mortal | |
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| The Owl | |
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| As the Team's Head-Brass | |
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| Thaw | |
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| Gone, Gone Again | |
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| Lights Out | |
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| End of Another Home Holiday | |
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| The Ship of Death | |
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| Tortoise Shell | |
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| Counter-Attack | |
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| Glory of Women | |
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| Lamentations | |
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| The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| Gerontion | |
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| The Waste Land | |
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| Whispers of Immortality | |
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| from Four Quartets | |
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| Little Gidding | |
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| Break of Day in the Trenches | |
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| Louse Hunting | |
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| On Receiving News of the War | |
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| The Innumerable Christ | |
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| from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle | |
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| By Wauchopeside | |
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| Wheesht, Wheesht | |
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| Insensibility | |
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| Anthem for Doomed Youth | |
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| Miners | |
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| Strange Meeting | |
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| 'All the Hills and Vales Along' | |
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| from In Parenthesis | |
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| from Mabinog's Liturgy | |
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| Sick Love | |
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| Song: Lift-Boy | |
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| Parent to Children | |
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| Counting the Beats | |
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| The Zulu Girl | |
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| On Some South African Novelists | |
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| Mass at Dawn | |
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| Luis de Camoes | |
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| The Commuted Sentence | |
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| Scorpion | |
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| Not Waving But Drowning | |
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| 'The Italian soldier shook my hand' | |
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| Death in Leamington | |
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| A Subaltern's Love-Song | |
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| In Westminster Abbey | |
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| House of Rest | |
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| The Metropolitan Railway | |
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| Slough | |
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| Note on Local Flora | |
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| To an Old Lady | |
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| Aubade | |
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| The Beautiful Train | |
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| Snow | |
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| Birmingham | |
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| The Sunlight on the Garden | |
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| Sunday Morning | |
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| Nostalgia | |
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| from Autumn Journal | |
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| Questioner Who Sits So Sly | |
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| A Free One | |
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| 1929 | |
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| The Question | |
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| Consider | |
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| Oxford | |
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| A. E. Housman | |
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| Edward Lear | |
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| Our Bias | |
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| Lullaby | |
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| Musee des Beaux Arts | |
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| 'As I walked out one evening' | |
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| 'O lurcher-loving collier, black as night' | |
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| Refugee Blues | |
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| In Memory of W. B. Yeats | |
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| September 1, 1939 | |
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| The Shield of Achilles | |
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| The Cave of Making | |
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| Ode to the Diencephalon | |
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| Moon Landing | |
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| Atlantis | |
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| 'What I expected was' | |
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| Delos | |
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| Strip-tease | |
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| Acropolis | |
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| Vega | |
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| 'Not in the poet is the poem or' | |
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| To My Mother | |
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| Rhodri | |
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| Echoes | |
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| Nocturne by Ben Shahn | |
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| The force that through the green fuse drives the flower | |
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| Especially when the October wind | |
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| Light breaks where no sun shines | |
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| After the funeral | |
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| The Conversation of Prayer | |
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| A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London | |
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| Poem in October | |
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| Do not go gentle into that good night | |
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| On being asked to write a school hymn | |
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| The Beast in the Space | |
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| Deceptions | |
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| No Road | |
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| Toads | |
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| The Whitsun Weddings | |
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| Days | |
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| MCMXIV | |
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| Toads Revisited | |
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| An Arundel Tomb | |
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| Going, Going | |
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| The Explosion | |
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| One Flesh | |
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| A Letter to Peter Levi | |
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| On The Move | |
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| The Last Man | |
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| The Man Seeking Experience Enquiries His Way of a Drop of Water | |
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| View of a Pig | |
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| Heptonstall | |
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| Tractor | |
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| Roe-deer | |
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| The day he died | |
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| New Year's Eve Poem 1965 | |
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| Himalayan Balsam | |
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| The Forge | |
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| Tinder | |
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| Wedding Day | |
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| Punishment | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index of Poets | |
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| Index of First Lines | |