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Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. Several historical people are featured in his poems, such as Sappho ("Sapphics"), Anactoria ("Anactoria"), Jesus ("Hymn to Proserpine": Galilaee, La. "Galilean") and Catullus ("To Catullus").

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List of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne 227 total

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A Watch In The Night
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Swan Song
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Birth And Death
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Envoi
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Marzo Pazzo
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To Catullus
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Sleep
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The Way Of The Wind
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Hermaphroditus
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Dead Love
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Mourning
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A Baby's Death
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Benediction
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Death And Birth
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A Night-Piece By Millet
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At Sea
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Discord
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A Flower-Piece By Fantin
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Before Sunset
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Chorus
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Love Lies Bleeding
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Sorrow
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Concord
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The Leper
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Prelude - Tristan And Isolde
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Aperotos Eros
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Plus Intra
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A Landscape By Courbet
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Hymn Of Man
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A Match
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A Leave-Taking
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Before the Mirror
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A Ballad of Dreamland
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Hymn to Proserpine (After the Proclamation of the Christian
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Sestina
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Had I Wist
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Anactoria
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A Child's Laughter
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A Ballad of Death
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Love In A Mist
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A Forsaken Garden
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Quia Multum Amavit
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To A Cat
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Before A Crucifix
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Chorus from 'Atalanta'
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A Cameo
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Laus Veneris
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The Sundew
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Recollections
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The Eve Of Revolution
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The Triumph Of Time
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Sapphics
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A Christmas Carol
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A Year's Burden -- 1870
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Sir William Gomm: Sonnets
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The Garden of Prosperine
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A Ballad of Burdens
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Genesis
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Fragoletta
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A Dead Friend
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Eight Years Old
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On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot: Sonnets
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Rococo
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The Salt of the Earth
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Hertha
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Etude Realiste
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John Marston: XII
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Faustine
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Ilicet
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Christopher Marlowe
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Dickens: Sonnets
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In Harbour
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Anonymous Plays: XVII
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August
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Eurydice - To Victor Hugo
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March: An Ode
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Leave-Taking
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Rest
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The Complaint of Lisa
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Epilogue
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Not A Child
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Perinde AC Cadaver
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The Masque of Queen Bersabe: A Miracle-Play
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Before Dawn
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To Dora Dorian
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Anima Anceps
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Past Days
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Seven Years Old
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Super Flumina Babylonis
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The Halt Before Rome--September 1867
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After Looking into Carlyles Reminiscences
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Mater Dolorosa
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Cleopatra
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Nephelidia
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A Lamentation
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Itylus
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Thomas Heywood: X
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A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
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Madona Mia
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May Janet
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Thomas Middleton: IX
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Song Before Death: From the French
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The Oblation
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Comparisons
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Dedication To Christina G. Rossetti
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Love and Sleep
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Ode On The Insurrection In Candia
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In the Bay
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Lines on the Death of Edward John Trelawny
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Prelude - Lohengrin
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The Lute And The Lyre
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Hendecasyllabics
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Before Parting
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The Year of the Rose
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An Appeal
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Four Songs Of Four Seasons
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On Lamb’s Specimens of Dramatic Poets: Sonnets
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In Sark
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Three Faces
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A Child's Battles
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First Footsteps
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A Marching Song
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Plus Ultra
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The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
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Insularum Ocelle
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Dysthanatos
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The Last Oracle
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Eros
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The Litany Of Nations
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A Song in Time of Order. 1852
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The Pilgrims
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Autumn And Winter
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In San Lorenzo
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Tenebrae
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Messidor
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Stage Love
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A Dialog
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A Ninth Birthday
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Rondel
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Cor Cordium
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Music: An Ode
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A Singing Lesson
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A Song in Time of Revolution. 1860
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Anonymous Plays: XVIII
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Anonymous Plays:XVI - ‘Arden of Feversham’
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On The Downs
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Quia Nominor Leo: Sonnets
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To Walt Whitman In America
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Non Dolet
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One Of Twain
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To Victor Hugo
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In The Orchard
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A Clasp Of Hands
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Beaumont and Fletcher:IV
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Ben Jonson: III
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Félise
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Hesperia
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Les Noyades
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An Interlude
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Dedication To Joseph Mazzini
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In Guernsey - To Theodore Watts
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In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
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John Ford: VI
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Philip Massinger: V
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A New Year's Message To Joseph Mazzini
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The Sea-Swallows
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Choriambics
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Love at Sea
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Satia te Sanguine
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The Epitaph In Form Of A Ballad Which Villon Made For Himself And His Comrades, Expecting To Be Hanged Along With Them
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A Year's Carols
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Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire)
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Babyhood
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Dedication
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A Litany
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Wasted Love
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Bismarck at Canossa: Sonnets
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Mater Triumphalis
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Change
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A Channel Crossing
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April
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For A Picture
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Let Us Go
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A Swimmer's Dream
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James Shirley: XIV
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John Webster: VII
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The Death Of Richard Wagner
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Aholibah
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England CXVII
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Prelude
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Epilogue:XXI 'Tristram of Lyonesse'
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On the Russian Persecution of the Jews: Sonnets
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Siena
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Adieux à Marie Stuart
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The Bloody Sun
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Monotones
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The Tribe of Benjamin: XV
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A Ballad Of François Villon, Prince Of All Ballad-Makers
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The Roundel
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After Death
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The King's Daughter
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To William Bell Scott
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St. Dorothy
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To John Nichol: Sonnets
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The Channel Tunnel: Sonnets
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A Jacobite's Exile
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Mentana : First Anniversary
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Thomas Decker: VIII
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Armand Barbes
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On An Old Roundel
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The Two Dreams
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Athens: An Ode
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John Day: XIII
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Time And Life
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The Song Of The Standard
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A Dialogue
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Christmas Antiphones
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Blessed Among Women --To The Signora Cairoli
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Étude Réaliste (excerpts)
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A Baby's Epitaph
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George Chapman:XI
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To Dr. John Brown: Sonnets
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A Ballad of Bath
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The Triumph of Time
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A Choice
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A Channel Passage
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A Counsel
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