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Another Spring
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
I'd listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
I'd find...
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Faith and Despondency
Emily Jane Brontë
Forsake thy books, and mateless play;
And, while the night is gathering grey,
We'll talk its pensive hours...
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Faith And Despondency.
Emily Bronte
Forsake thy books, and mateless play;
And, while the night is gathering gray,
We'll talk its pensive hours away;
 
"Ierne,...
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In Memoriam Matris
Arthur Patchett Martin
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Now, old and mateless, he would roam
Back to that southern land once...
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Light Love
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Palinodia
Charles Kingsley
A mateless bird's
My pilgrimage has been; through sin, and doubt,
And darkness, seeking...
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The Chapel of the Hermits
John Greenleaf Whittier
And, mateless, childless, envied more
The peasant's welcome from his door
By smiling eyes at eventide,...
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The Resolve
Sir Walter Scott
To be so strangely crost;
The widow'd turtles mateless die,
The phoenix is but one;
They seek no loves -no more will I-
I'll rather dwell...
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The Retrospective Bird
Ambrose Bierce
And he sits and he thinks: 'I'm an old, old man,
Mateless and chickless, the last of my clan,
But I'd give the half of the days gone by
To perch once...
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The Widow Of Glencoe
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
I alone of all was mateless-
Far more wretched I than they,
For the snow would not discover
Where my lord and husband...
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The Wood Giant
John Greenleaf Whittier
Of one apart and mateless,
The weariness of unshared power,
The loneliness of...
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Two Portraits
Henry Timrod
And sorrow shuns the mateless...
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