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A Song of Autumn Adam Lindsay Gordon
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger
Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey Alexander Pope
Etude Realiste Algernon Charles Swinburne
Safety-Clutch Ambrose Bierce
Sonnet Amy Levy
The Character of Holland Andrew Marvell
The Star Ann Taylor
To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet
Dreams Anne Bronte
The Discontent Anne Killigrew
The Man and His Horse Anne Kingsmill Finch
Women's Rights Annie Louisa Walker
Across the Sea Along the Shore Arthur Hugh Clough
It Is Not Growing Like a Tree Ben Jonson
Easter Week Charles Kingsley
Such, Such Is Death Charles Sorley
Speak of the North! A Lonely Moor Charlotte Bronte
The Emigrants: Book I Charlotte Smith
Before the Paling of the Stars Christina Rossetti
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe
From Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 Christopher Smart
A Farewell Coventry Patmore
To Helen Edgar Allan Poe
Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters Edmund Spenser
The Dream Called Life Edward Fitzgerald
There Was an Old Man in a Tree Edward Lear
Success Comes to Cow Creek Edward Taylor
When He Should Laugh Edward Thomas
The Sea-Child Eliza Cook

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