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A Vision Splendid
Victor James Daley
That native authors only
  On pain of death be...
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"Held in the Hands of Time"
Ellie Hardie
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It sees the passion in a kiss,
And the soon pain of heartbreak.
From crying with our mothers
And with our friends until our hearts ache.

But, it...
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Easter Even
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Set a watch about the sepulchre
To watch on pain of death;
They must hold fast the stone if One should stir
And shake it from...
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Epilogue on the Same Occasion (Princess of Cleves)
John Dryden
Let vizard mask her naked face expose,
On pain of being thought to want a nose:
Then for your lacqueys, and your train beside,
By whate'er name...
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Otho The Great - Act II
John Keats
And none pass this way on pain of...
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Ryton Firs
Lascelles Abercrombie
No tree, on pain of withering and sawfly,
To reach the slimmest of his snaky toes
Into this mounded sward and...
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The Court of Love
Geoffrey Chaucer
"
 Mercury bade him, on pain of death, to
appear; and he went by strange and far countries
in search of the...
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The Factory Girl
John Arthur Phillips
No pause for rest or pleasure
On pain of being sent away;
So ran her civilized serfdom --
Four cents an hour the...
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The Friar's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
He could summon, on pain of Christe's curse,
And they were inly glad to fill his purse,
And make him greate feastes at...
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The King's Missive
John Greenleaf Whittier
A fellow banished on pain of death--
Shattuck, of Salem, unhealed of the whip,
Brought over in Master Goldsmith's ship...
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The Love of the World Reproved: or, Hypocrisy Detected
William Cowper
May taste, whate'er his inclination,
On pain of...
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The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady
George Meredith
Her sisters shun the Mother and disown,
On pain of his intolerable crow
Above the fiction, built for him,...
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