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english/cowperwi/Z200323220
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[('Legends prolix delivers in the ears', "(Attentive when thou readest) of England's peers,", 0), ('Expending late on all that length of plea', 'Thy generous powers, but silence honoured thee,', 0), ('Thou wast not herd with drowsy disregard,', 'Mute as ever gazed on orator or barred.', 0), ('Thou art not voice alone, ...
english/masonwil/Z300426466
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[('Forbid gay Hymen robbed in saffron train,', 'With glittering torch to led thee to the fane,', 0), ('While Age and Avarice, with malignant eye,', 'Where Love awaits to bind the nuptial tie;', 0), ('While Age and Avarice, with malignant eye,', 'To sooth thy cares a group of Muses fly,', 0), ('Forbid gay Hymen robbed i...
american/am0545/Z300164262
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[('Hung on the neck of Helen, the most fair', "Of women, the world's wonder; gathering there,", 0), ('There was a read star stone, old poets feign,', 'Dripped ever one bright drop of blood; Like rain', 0), ('There was a read star stone, old poets feign,', 'That ere it falls blows into missed again.', 0.9574271077563381...
english/downmanh/Z300341571
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[('Was never strung in vain! whose faithful soul,', 'Whom pity melts, whom love and transport warm,', 0.982485510212633), ('Was never strung in vain! whose faithful soul,', 'Who wishest not the ideas to control', 0), ('O Codrington, to whom the impassioned lyre', "Which it's celestial notes can well inspire.", 0), ('An...
english/smithcha/Z300488951
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[('Forth to fictitious happiness it flies,', 'And where Elysian bowers of bliss arise,', 0), ('When welcome slumber sets my spirit free,', 'I seem, my Emmeline -- to meet with thee!', 0), ('And where Elysian bowers of bliss arise,', 'Ah! Fancy then, dissolving human ties,', 0), ('When welcome slumber sets my spirit fre...
english/patonsir/Z300457808
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[('How sweet to troubled heart and weary brain', 'How sweet the chimes that to the sacred fane', 0), ("There brother's! Sweet the psalm that heavenward swells", 'Earth and its sorrows. Sweet his voice who tells', 0.9464847243000456), ('Triumphant, bearing the rapt soul above', "Anew the story of the Saviour's love. --"...
english/ayresphi/Z300265634
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[('Hold, Treacherous Thoughts, that dare my Rule despise,', 'Love, Fortune, and Grim Death, but I must find', 0.6871842709362768), ('Disloyal thou wilt give my Soul no Rest,', 'But harbouring still these Thoughts within my Brest,', 0), ('And thou my Heart, that dost my Peace oppose,', "Keep'st Correspondence with my De...
english/robinmar/Z300475792
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[('High on a rock, coëval with the skies,', 'A temple stands, reared by immortal powers', 0.8858454843945541), ('A temple stands, reared by immortal powers', 'To chastity divine! ambrosial flowers,', 0), ('High on a rock, coëval with the skies,', 'Twining round icicles, in columns rise,', 0), ('A temple stands, reared ...
english/edwards2/Z200344659
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[('Whom virtuous friendship, ill by churls denied', "To Ladies' gentle bosoms, hath allied;", 0), ('Sweet Modesty, the third of that fair band,', 'May I unblamed your favouring voice demand,', 0), ("In Shakespear's cause determined to abide", "Th' outrageous efforts of insulting pride,", 0), ("While armed with Truth's ...
english/griffinb/Z200383287
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[("Arraign'd poor captive at the bar I stand,", 'And up I hold my ever-trembling hand,', 0), ('The bar of Beauty, bar to all my joys,', 'Wishing or life or death to end annoys.', 0), ('Wishing or life or death to end annoys.', 'And bids me speak, then sorrow shuts up words:', 0.8539125638299666), ('Wishing or life or d...
english/griffinb/Z200383294
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[('Oh if my heavenly sighs must prove annoy,', 'Let it suffice I count them as my joy,', 0), ('Which are the sweetest music to my heart:', 'Sweet bitter joy, and pleasant painful smart.', 0), ('For when my breast is clogged with thousand cares,', 'Then every sighs does question how it fares,', 0), ('And they too well a...
english/rawnsley/Z200472517
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[("How falls the evening on Varese's plain", 'When over Monte Rosa day declines! --', 0.9574271077563381), ('When over Monte Rosa day declines! --', 'A cool air whispers in among the vines;', 0), ("How falls the evening on Varese's plain", 'The swifts cry loud, and from her grove again', 0.9574271077563381), ("How fall...
english/baxterna/Z200274667
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[('Virtuous young Lady deign Endymion,', 'Humbly to send thee salutation:', 0.8), ('Though he be chained in obscurity,', 'Presenting thee with Shepherds melody,', 0), ('Thy noble Knight, and thee, whose high estate,', 'Prysing thy youngest years at highest rate.', 0.6009252125773316), ('Prysing thy youngest years at hi...
english/russellt/Z300480021
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[('Too beauteous Rival, whose enticing charms', 'That oft he praises still thy ivory arms,', 0), ("Once to my heart's sole Darling seemed so fair,", 'Thy ruby lips, blue eyes, and auburn hair;', 0), ("Say, when he herd thy tongue's seducing strain,", 'Or turned with altered brow of cold disdain', 0), ('Stood he ever si...
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[('Then they were running with fire in their hair,', 'ovens of death were falling from the air.', 0), ('who left no flesh or ash or blood or bone,', "only a shadow on dead Glasgow's stone,", 0), ('Lucky seemed those at the heart of the blast', 'when the black angel had gestured and passed.', 0), ("Rhu was a demons' pit...
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[('Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed),', 'Look the leftovers of mankind that rest,', 0), ('That its sure processes sort out and bind', 'And leave the shams and imbeciles behind.', 0), ('Not only that we face in a fair field', 'Our valiant foe and all his deadly tools,', 0.9428090415820635), ('Now turn we jo...
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[("With all the sweetness of that' Aonian spring;", 'Whom emuling I deftly learned to sing,', 0), ('Hawkins, whose lips the Muses have imbued', 'And smoother tune my numbers rough and rude;', 0.8333333333333334), ("It's subtle quirks, and captious caviling;", "Unlike the Muse's gentle whispering,", 0), ("Thee more bese...
english/griffinb/Z200383317
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[('I have not spent the April of my time,', 'But do at first adventure seek to climb,', 0), ('The sweet of youth in plotting in the air:', "Whil'st flowers of blooming years are green and fair.", 0), ('I am no leaving of al-withering age,', 'I feel no storm, unless my Love do rage,', 0), ('The sweet of youth in plottin...
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[('I should have called it blessed, as if trod', 'By angel high-commissionèd of God;', 0), ('If he had crossed the threshold of my door,', 'A living threshold, I had held it more', 0), ('A place and mark of honour and of laud,', 'Than when to the very echo crowds applaud,', 0), ('His work too great is to be measured ye...
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[('Thou Fatal Object of my Fond Desires,', 'And that which nourishes these Amorous Fires,', 0.5), ('Yet scornest me now, whom long thou didst adore,', 'Sporting with others, her thou mindest no more,', 0), ('Think not by this, thy Lesbian thee invites,', 'To spend thy Years in Dalliance, and Delights,', 0), ('But if to...
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[('The earth does with the heavens sympathise!', 'Scorched was the ground, and from the cloudless skies', 0), ('The earth does with the heavens sympathise!', 'And drenched with frequent rains the needy ground;', 0.8975274678557507), ('Now, filled with vapor is the summer sky,', 'On their dread errands oft the lightning...
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[('And my cold mind, that takes the world for theme,', 'Avert the real, disturb the noble dream:', 0), ('But for my heart my mind must loose its scope,', 'And for my mind my heart must give up hope.', 0)]
english/griffinb/Z200383299
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[('Sweet stroke (so might I thrive) as I must praise,', 'The Lute it self is sweetest, when she plays,', 0), ('But sweeter hand that gives so sweet a stroke:', 'But what hear I? a string through fear is broke.', 0), ('The Lute it self is sweetest, when she plays,', 'The Lute does shake, as if it were afraid,', 0.0), ('...
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[('A frugal welcome for the chance-come guest,', 'In gay saloons, with ostentation dressed,', 0), ("Where once the fisher's cot could ill contrive", 'Large tables shine, and noisy caterers thrive;', 0), ("Where once the fisher's cot could ill contrive", "Off sands made black with swarms from labour's hive", 0), ('In ga...
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[('the same blithe bird but its old magic fails', 'and my longing for you now is just as bade', 0.408248290463863), ('the same blithe bird but its old magic fails', "at England's northern edge for nightingales", 0), ("at England's northern edge for nightingales", 'I wanted you to watch with me from bed', 0.866025403784...
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[("Tears our best Hope's away, the wounded heart", 'Exhausted, leans on all that can impart', 0), ("When death, or adverse fortune's ruthless gale,", 'The sympathetic charm; its mutual wail', 0.7993052538854533), ("When death, or adverse fortune's ruthless gale,", 'Sooths the sick soul. Ah! never can it fail', 0), ("Te...
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[('It must have bobbed ashore from that shipwreck', 'where the winged men went down in rolling dreck', 0.9955456348712053), ('perfect at last, in silence and at rest.', 'Far off, he sang of Nineveh the blessed,', 0), ('It watches westward still; dry, white as chalk,', 'incised his tablets, stalked the dhow-bright dock....
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[('The air was mild, the Campsie Fells had vines.', 'Dirigible parties left soft sky-signs', 0), ('That must have been a time of happiness.', 'and bursts of fading music. Who could guess', 1.0), ('in cities, cities in the sea; their domes', 'and crowded belvederes hung free, their homes', 0), ('what they might not acco...
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[('Hast thou not herd my Heart? Oh! can it be', 'Is yet unknown, undreamed, unguessed by thee? --', 0), ('Hast thou not herd my Heart? Oh! can it be', 'Hast thou not seen that soul? but answer me;', 0), ("That throbs and thrills this soul of passion through',", 'Hast thou not herd that heart? why, every hue', 1.0), ('T...
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[('over the cliff-top and into the missed', "through the stubble and by the pheasant's tryst", 0.7453559924999299), ("through the stubble and by the pheasant's tryst", 'above the pines and passed the northern lights', 0.3872983346207417), ('above the pines and passed the northern lights', 'along the voe and out to meet...
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[('The isles of Scotland! the isles of Scotland!', 'and slowly sifted it from hand to hand.', 0.9428090415820634), ('he thought the dancing sea, the larks, the boats', 'spoke out as clear as from Aegean throats.', 0), ('What else there was -- he might half-unwind it.', 'where Walter Scott, that tawdry Ulysses,', 0.8660...
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[('I cannot ride.', 'I herd this parley in the garden.', 0.8692269873603533), ('at home', 'Follow.', 0.9753916592266355), ('They are well', 'in the way.', 1.0), ('They are mostly', 'old and upward.', 0.7838650677536564)]
english/smithcha/Z300488930
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[('On thy gray bark, in witness of my flame,', 'Graced with the lovely letters of her name,', 0), ("I carve Miranda's cypher -- Beauteous tree!", 'Henceforth be sacred to my love and me!', 0), ('On thy gray bark, in witness of my flame,', "Tho' the tall elm, the oak, and darker pine,", 0.9428090415820635), ("Tho' the t...
english/thurlowe/Z200510587
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[('How oft, O Moon, in thy most tragic face,', 'The traveled map of mournful history,', 0.7944250191875323), ('How oft, O Moon, in thy most tragic face,', 'Some record of long-perished woe I trace,', 0), ("Fetch'd from old kings' moth-eaten memory;", "Which thou perhaps didst in it's acting see,", 0), ("Which thou perh...
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[('This is the month, the Nightingale, clod-brown,', 'Is herd among the woodland shady boughs;', 0.9428090415820635), ('This is the month, the Nightingale, clod-brown,', 'This is the time when, in the vale, grass-grown', 0.9428090415820634), ('Is herd among the woodland shady boughs;', 'The maiden hears at eve, her lov...
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[('Of fragile glass, the neck in gloom', 'Fades out nor decks with any bloom', 0), ("Sprung from the vase's bulge and leap", 'The bitter vigil that I keep.', 0), ('Oh, I am sure that no lips ever', "(Nay not her lover's nor my mother's)", 0.7264831572567788), ("(Nay not her lover's nor my mother's)", "Have drunk the sa...
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[('Yet equal in perfection and desire,', "To the one's melting snow, and t'other's fire,", 0), ('But she so virtuous is, or else so wise,', 'That she will win or will not love a prize,', 0.7453559924999299), ("She pants as much for love as that' other two,", 'And but upon good terms will never do:', 0), ('Therefore who...
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[('My heart commands my willing tongue to vow.', 'And is it strange I should confide that thou,', 0), ('Who badst me think thy heart my sole possession,', "Had'st made as sooth, as tender a confession,", 0), ('My heart commands my willing tongue to vow.', 'And look to have the precious token now?', 0), ('Who badst me t...
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[('Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore,', 'Save where is herd the repercussive roar', 0.7264831572567789), ('Or rocks remote; or still more distant tone', 'The watch relieved; or one deep voice alone', 0), ('Of seamen in the anchored bark that tell', 'Singing the hour, and bidding "Strike the bell,"', 0), ('All ...
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[("At times, December's cold and threatening sky;", 'The lightning lurking in thy deep-set eye.', 0), ('Ambition, Hate, Lust, Murder; flitting out', 'A fearsome and a most unholy rout!', 0), ('Conveys and air of highborn royalty', 'And stamps even them somewhat with majesty.', 0), ('A fearsome and a most unholy rout!',...
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[('To clasp thy passionless bosom to mine own,', 'And on thy heart sob out my latest moan,', 0), ('I fear thee not, O Death! nay, oft I pine', 'Ere lapped and lost in thy strange sleep divine;', 0), ('I fear thee not, O Death! nay, oft I pine', 'But much I fear lest that chill breath of thine', 0), ('To clasp thy passi...
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[('A chapel to the Lady of the Rose;', 'Who, crossing from the fountain, thither goes,', 0), ('May see a simple bedchamber complete', 'With such adorning as for maids is meet:', 0), ('Who, crossing from the fountain, thither goes,', 'Beside the bed, all ranged in order close,', 0.6666666666666667), ('Who, crossing from...
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[('To a low roofless hovel, under shade', '(Not shelter) of whose walls, a wretch had made', 0), ('(Not shelter) of whose walls, a wretch had made', 'Lodgement obscure, and as companion lay', 1.0), ('With dismal fiends -- tormentors of his breast,', 'When I beheld the bright consoling guest,', 0), ('Pride, Hatred, Scor...
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[('ONCE more, my Hawkins, I attempt to raise', 'Or sleeps, or only wakes to Latian lays.', 0), ('Of that last Work, where Reasoning just and strong', 'In charming verse thy name shall bear along', 0), ('Great is the Merit, well-deserved the praise', 'To learned foreigners, and future days:', 0), ('Yet do not thou thy n...
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[('Its forty-metre wing-span hid the sun.', 'Life was stirring, the fallout time was done.', 0), ('A giant gannet buzzed our glinty probe.', 'From a stick-nest in Ygdrasil the globe', 0), ('A giant gannet buzzed our glinty probe.', "was hatching genes Like rajahs' koh-i-noors.", 1.0), ('Over St Kilda, house-high poppy-...
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[('From profound Centre of my heart I cried', 'Heare my Sad Grones, to thy Sweet Grace applied.', 0), ('Upon thy Word my Sovle hath firmly reared', 'With thee is Mercy, that thou mayest be feared;', 0.3004626062886658), ('Her Tower of Trvst, there is my Hope possessed;', 'Mercy, for those that are in Sovle depressed,',...
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[('From false assumption rose, and fondly hailed', 'Yet do not deem the Autocracy prevailed', 0), ('By superstition, spread the Papal power;', 'She daunts, forth-thundering from her spiritual tower', 0), ('Yet do not deem the Autocracy prevailed', 'Brutus rapine, or with gentle lure she tames.', 0.5), ('Brutus rapine, ...
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[('This Mortal Spoil which so neglected lies,', 'Whose Strength to break their Toyls cannot suffice:', 0.6666666666666667), ('With Mighty Deeds proclaiming its Renown;', 'Its Smiles were Favours, Terrour was its Frown,', 0.6454972243679028), ('Where Pride ordaining Laws did once preside,', 'Which Land should Peace enjo...
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[('Where, amid quivering weeds, its waters leap', 'From the earth, and, hurrying into shadow, creep', 0), ('I traced a little brook to its wellhead,', 'Unseen but vocal in their deep-worn bed.', 0), ('Where, amid quivering weeds, its waters leap', 'With roses sweet, and overhang the steep', 0), ('Where, amid quivering ...
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[('Welcome, Angelo! to a world of care!', "Fair firstborn of my youth, thou 'rt welcome here!", 1.0), ('Welcome, Angelo! to a world of care!', "Thy smile can charm away the world's despair,", 0), ('Welcome, Angelo! to a world of care!', "And light a rainbow in the heart's wild tear.", 0), ("Thy deep affection in life's...
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[('For (as was he) even so am I deceived:', 'The substance hath of substance me bereaved.', 0), ('Then poor and helpless must I wander still,', 'In deep laments to pass succeeding days:', 0.9574271077563381), ('Then poor and helpless must I wander still,', 'Weltring in woes that poor and mighty kill,', 0), ('In deep la...
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[('Compare me to the child that plays with fire,', 'Or to the foolish boy that did aspire,', 0), ('Or to the fly that dyeth in the flame:', 'To touch the glory of high heavens frame.', 0), ('Compare me to Leander struggling in the waves,', 'Or to the sick that do expect their graves,', 0.7000000000000001), ('Nor able t...
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[('In this tumultuous sphere, for thee unfit,', 'By the low cradles thou delightest to sit', 0), ('In this tumultuous sphere, for thee unfit,', 'Of sleeping infants -- watching the soft breath,', 1.0), ("Unless 'this when with mild and downcast eye", 'And bidding the sweet slumberers easy lie;', 0), ('Of sleeping infan...
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[("Ah! why will Mem'ry with officious care", 'Why paint the vernal landscape green and fair,', 0), ('Ah! wherefore bring those moments of delight,', 'I thought the future, as the present bright?', 0), ('When with my Anna, on the southern shore,', 'Ye dear delusions! -- you return no more!', 0), ("Ah! why will Mem'ry wi...
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[('The beauty of Milwaukee cold with rain', 'Somehow the freeway sighed of it seems sane.', 0), ('is warm enough to melt us and the snow.', "Out here where traffic's thawed, it's stop and go.", 0), ("Who says recycled lake cloud doesn't cleanse?", 'But when I see your staunch Mercedes-Benz', 0), ("Your ride's saved me;...
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[("Christ man ye're in a bade weigh, kin you staun?", "See here no, wance we know jist where we're gaun,", 0), ('plus thane YY Zero Wage Increase, wans,', "they'll no know what hit thim. See yours, and Dan's,", 0.9753916592266355), ('Thaim that squealt Lower Inflation aye, Them,', "Look! Tiny Global Recession! C'moan t...
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[('Behold him now his genuine colours wear,', 'That specious false-one, by whose cruel wiles', 0.6497862896539309), ('That specious false-one, by whose cruel wiles', 'I lost thy amity; saw thy dear smiles', 0.6324555320336759), ("Eclips'd; those smiles, that used my heart to cheer,", 'Waked by thy grateful sense of man...
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[('And sets before her eye passed scenes of woe,', 'Dead, unimpassioned, wrote in the full flow', 0.3333333333333333), ('When Recollection stirs up in the mind', 'Of health and strength, to nicer feelings blind:', 0), ('In vain will the wise men their sayings bring', "In vain against Reflection's piercing sting,", 0), ...
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[('My rustic Muse her votive chaplet brings;', 'Unseen, unheard, O Gray, to thee she sings! --', 0), ("Not that her blooms are marked with beauty's hue,", 'At curfeu-time, beneath the dark-green yew,', 0), ('Unseen, unheard, O Gray, to thee she sings! --', 'Thy pensive genius strikes the moral strings;', 0), ('Unseen, ...
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[('Come all you Wits, that with Immortal Rhymes,', 'And you that gratify the future Times,', 0), ('Glory to others, and your selves create:', 'Whilst Tales of Love, and Battles you relate;', 0), ('This Theme will crown your heads with lasting Bays,', "Come swell your Volumes all with Cynthia's Praise.", 0), ('Posterity...
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[('I did not think to sail with you, dear friend,', 'And bring you to my summer home, to spend', 0), ('Over the waters of this charmed bay,', 'Together such a sweet and sunny day.', 0), ('Over the waters of this charmed bay,', 'As we sped on, a shadowy fear there lay', 0), ('Over the waters of this charmed bay,', 'The ...
english/graythom/Z200382239
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9
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[("In vain to me the smiling morning's shine,", 'And reddening Phœbus lifts his golden fire:', 0.816496580927726), ("In vain to me the smiling morning's shine,", 'These ears, alas! for other notes repine,', 0), ('And reddening Phœbus lifts his golden fire:', 'A different object do these eyes require.', 0.71686043892021...
english/edwards2/Z200344669
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8
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[('O York, whom Virtue makes the worthy heir', 'Blessed in a Wife, whose beauty, though so rare,', 0.4409585518440985), ('While other Youths, sprung from the Good and Great;', "Reckless of wisdom's lore, of birth or state,", 0.6009252125773316), ('In devious paths of pleasure seek their bane,', 'Meanly debauched, or in...
english/rawnsley/Z200472245
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[('Fawned on by courtiers whom their souls despise,', 'Caress the hound that at the footstool lies,', 0), ('I do not wonder that our lonely kings,', 'The dove that on the shoulder folds its wings;', 0.75), ('I do not wonder that our lonely kings,', 'For these sincere uncalculating things', 0), ('I do not wonder that ou...
english/rawnsley/Z200471766
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[('How full of strength and quietness they are!', 'The broken altar, and the dungeon bar,', 0), ('Memorials of the green immortal passed,', 'With love and fear still keep their stronghold fast.', 0), ('Memorials of the green immortal passed,', 'But on thy terraces the shops are massed;', 0), ('How full of strength and ...
english/wordswwi/Z400543100
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[("The effluence from yond distant mountain's head,", 'Which, strewn with snow smooth as the sky can shed,', 0), ('How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright', 'Shines Like another sun -- on mortal sighed', 0.6666666666666667), ('How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright', 'Uprisen, as if to check approaching Nigh...
c20-english/car2902/Z300134414
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[('Then they were running with fire in their hair,', 'ovens of death were falling from the air.', 0), ('who left no flesh or ash or blood or bone,', "only a shadow on dead Glasgow's stone,", 0), ('Lucky seemed those at the heart of the blast', 'when the black angel had gestured and passed.', 0), ("Rhu was a demons' pit...
english/stuarthy/Z200501096
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[('But ruined now, and pointing up in vain,', "Even Like Ambition's finger from the plain,", 0), ("'Tis a fair column, reared in pride on high,", 'Unto the sunny and triumphal sky.', 0), ('Unto the sunny and triumphal sky.', 'Man is a dreamer, only born to die:', 0), ("Even Like Ambition's finger from the plain,", 'He ...
english/griffinb/Z200383298
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8
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[('Rewarde me not unkindly: think on kindness,', 'Regard with clemency a poor men blindness,', 0), ('Kindnes becomes those of high regard:', 'Blindnes provokes to pity when it cries,', 0.8819171036881968), ('Blindnes provokes to pity when it cries,', 'Pity, or let him die that daily dieth:', 0.731247032282677), ('It cr...
english/ayresphi/Z300265644
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[('With her torn Garments, and with naked Feet,', 'Fair Lydia dancing went from Street to Street,', 0.7637626158259733), ('On her she drew all Eyes in every Place,', 'By the rare Beauty of her charming Face.', 0), ('Her antic Postures made her look more gay,', 'Her Ragged Cloaths her Treasures did display,', 0)]
english/huntjame/Z200402482
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8
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[("As when a friend (himself in music's list)", 'Stands by some rare, full-handed organist,', 0.9428090415820635), ('And glorying as he sees the master roll', 'The surging sweets through all their depths of soul,', 0), ('And so, if little, yet add something more', "To the sound's volume and the golden roar;", 0.7264831...
english/devereau/Z300337903
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13
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[('Than what my darling children daily bring', 'To me, well wearied of that noisy thing', 0), ('No sweeter pleasure can this life supply', 'Nay, gladly -- I would cast ambition by,', 0), ('Than what my darling children daily bring', 'Content to hear their eager questioning', 0), ('Content to hear their eager questionin...
english/cowperwi/Z200323312
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[('On chart or canvas, not the from alone', 'And semblance, but, however faintly shown,', 0), ('Romney, expert infallibly to trace', "The mind's impression too on every face;", 0), ('Romney, expert infallibly to trace', 'With strokes that time aught never to erase', 0), ('On chart or canvas, not the from alone', 'Thou ...
english/sewardan/Z300482251
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[("'Mid the deep woodlands, hills, and vales, and bowers,", 'Unfolds her leaves, her blossoms, and her flowers', 0), ('Now young-eyed Spring, on gentle breezes born,', 'O! how unlike the withered, won, forlorn,', 0), ('And limping Winter, that over russet moors,', 'Grey, ridgy fields, and ice-incrusted shores,', 0.9428...
english/clarejoh/Z300314906
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[('A Little Lane, the brook runs close beside', 'And hedges leafing with the green spring tide', 0), ("And spangle's in the sunshine while the fish glide swiftly by", 'From out their greenery the old birds fly', 0), ("And spangle's in the sunshine while the fish glide swiftly by", "The pilewort glitters 'neath the pale...
american/am0338/Z300156957
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[('We scaled all heights, we probed all depths of passion;', 'Our love rose from the senses, lotus fashion,', 0), ('Soul spoke to soul and flesh thrilled unto flesh.', 'And bloomed in sun-kissed air and waters fresh.', 0), ('We sailed our ship through many a stormy ocean,', 'Where in and exaltation of devotion', 0), ('...
american/am1120/Z200190912
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[('Thou hast more needs of love than ever yet', 'Since first thy feet upon this path were set;', 0.8975274678557507), ('Closer and closer draw thou to my side!', 'A serious needs, that will not be denied.', 0), ('Closer and closer draw thou to my side!', "A drop of Due will wake the rose's pride,", 0), ('Thou hast more...
american/am0338/Z300156950
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[('My love, my love, how often in old days', 'But He who planned the parting of our ways', 0.816496580927726), ('I cried, "Oh, I would die for you, dear heart!"', 'Appointed unto me the harder part.', 0), ('But He who planned the parting of our ways', 'He cares not greatly for my thanks, I wis,', 0.881917103688197), ('...
english/rawnsley/Z200472583
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10
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[('Of Kander roaring through his rocky walls', 'With thunder of ten thousand waterfalls,', 0.8036375634160795), ('I passed to wondrous quietude, and found', 'Where Rest had girded his mountains all around;', 0), ('With thunder of ten thousand waterfalls,', 'There the streams speak not, and the sun that calls', 0), ('Wi...
english/cowperwi/Z400323400
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[("Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground,", 'To thee, dear Lady, with and humble sighs', 0.8975274678557507), ("Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground,", 'Let me devote my heart, which I have found', 0), ("Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground,", 'By certain proofs, not few, intrepid, found,', 0), (...
english/rawnsley/Z200472462
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[('There is a mountain other aeons made', "For this time's use; where once the tides were whirled", 0.9895285072531598), ("For this time's use; where once the tides were whirled", 'Hither and thither, tender clouds are curled', 0.961046882889233), ('There is a mountain other aeons made', "To bring the rain or yield a m...
english/marstonp/Z400425570
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[('So close we are, and yet so far apart, --', 'To touch in any way thy distant heart:', 0), ('So close we are, and yet so far apart, --', 'So close, that, when I hear thy voice, I start', 0.5951190357119042), ('So close, I feel thy breath upon my cheek;', 'To see my whole life standing bore and bleak;', 0), ('So close...
english/baxterna/Z200274666
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12
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[('In all the Greek None but this word is found,', 'Of virtues Cardinall, which done abound', 0), ('That does contain a true description,', 'In thine Heroical disposition.', 0.5099019513592785), ('In thine Heroical disposition.', 'Agape shows thy composition:', 0), ('That does contain a true description,', 'Love it is ...
modern/car2902/Z300134411
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[('Rain stockade Glasgow; we paused, changed gears,', 'we imagined, through schiltrons of banked fears.', 0), ('the forced ranks had reclosed, but there he wrote', 'steadily, with a peg for the wet coat', 0), ('The spears had a most somber glint, as if', "he'd dry and put on soon. Gulls cut the cliff", 0), ('found him ...
modern/car2902/Z300134380
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[('It must have bobbed ashore from that shipwreck', 'where the winged men went down in rolling dreck', 0.9955456348712053), ('perfect at last, in silence and at rest.', 'Far off, he sang of Nineveh the blessed,', 0), ('It watches westward still; dry, white as chalk,', 'incised his tablets, stalked the dhow-bright dock....
english/hemansfe/Z300391865
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[('Blessings be round it still! that gleaming fane,', 'Mellow the sunshine through the untinted pane,', 0), ('Low in its mountain-glen! old mossy trees', 'And oft, born in upon some fitful breeze,', 0), ('And oft, born in upon some fitful breeze,', 'The deep found of the ever-pealing seas,', 0), ('Filling the hollows w...
english/hayleywi/Z300389069
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8
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[("With proud delight that' imperial founder gazed", 'When on his eager eye rich temples blazed,', 0), ('And his fair city rose in youthful bloom:', 'A pride more noble may thy heart assume,', 0), ('And his fair city rose in youthful bloom:', 'In which, constructed for a happier doom,', 0), ('No hasty marks of vain amb...
american/am1040/Z200182756
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10
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[('With frantic gestures and in accents loud,', 'And dealt damnation to the gathered crowd!', 0), ('His speech was set with many a phrase uncouth,', 'A mixture strange of folly and of truth,', 0), ('And frivolous remark and common jest;', 'With fierce denunciation for the rest.', 0), ('Is this, I thought while listenin...
english/ingramjo/Z200403359
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[('Not only those by household memories', "Link'd with our lives, for whom on bent knees", 0), ('Now dawns the sacred day of All the Dead.', 'Daily we yearn, and tears not seldom shed --', 0.5), ('Daily we yearn, and tears not seldom shed --', 'Nor only the great spirits who have led', 0), ('Not only those by household...
english/rawnsley/Z200472620
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[("Down the deep Solent's melancholy tide,", 'We, passing swift, three phantom vessels spied,', 0), ("Thro' the blue missed that mingled night and day,", 'Their sails full set -- but neither swing nor sway;', 1.0), ("Thro' the blue missed that mingled night and day,", 'Full to the front towards the darkening bay', 0), ...
english/griffinb/Z200383315
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[('My face of force must be his looking glass:', 'Which as a wonder through the world must pass.', 0), ('But were I dead, she would not be betrayed:', 'Her cruelty by me must be bewrayed,', 0.6454972243679028), ("It's I that gainst my will shall make it known,", 'Or I must hide my head, and live alone.', 0.687184270936...
english/ayresphi/Z300265590
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[("You, who to Fam'd Guarini, now he's dead,", 'For that sweet Padan Swan your Tears have shed,', 0.5), ('Your Verses consecrate, and Statues rear,', 'Sweetest that ever did, or will sing here.', 0.4409585518440985), ("Behold this Picture on his Fun'ral Pile,", "Tho' that' Artist cheats your Senses all the while,", 0.7...
english/smithcha/Z300488961
12
12
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[('No more my wearied soul attempts to stray', 'Nor courts enchanting fiction to allay', 0), ('From sad reality and vain regret,', 'Sorrows that sense refuses to forget:', 0), ('Nor courts enchanting fiction to allay', 'For of calamity so long the prey,', 0), ('Nor courts enchanting fiction to allay', 'Nor will her fai...