The Future of Poetry by John Vance Cheney

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When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time: Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare

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Daybreak by Sir William Davenant

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Shall I Compare Thee?: Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare

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The Portrait by Thomas Heywood

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Give Place, Ye Lovers by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

To His Mistress, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia by Sir Henry Wotton

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The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide: Sonnet XCIX by William Shakespeare

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There Is a Garden in Her Face: From 'An Houre's Recreation in Musicke,' 1606 by…

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Olivia: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act I. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

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Portia's Picture: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shak…

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Song by Mark Akenside

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Triumph of Charis by Ben Jonson

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Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Belinda: From 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

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Hero's Beauty: From the First Sestiad of 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marl…

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Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes: From 'The Forest' by Ben Jonson

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Eros Is Missing by Meleager

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A Violet in Her Hair by Charles Swain

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To Dianeme by Robert Herrick

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Rosalynd by Thomas Lodge

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Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew

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To a Lady Admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph

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Phillis Is My Only Joy by Sir Charles Sedley

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Constancy by Sir John Suckling

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A Vision of Beauty by Ben Jonson

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To the Princess Lucretia by Torquato Tasso

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Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

My Lady by Dante Alighieri

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Vision of a Fair Woman, from the Ancient Erse of Elizabeth A. Sharp's 'Lyra Cel…

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Spring by Meleager

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Song by Walther von der Vogelweide

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The Girl of Cadiz by Lord Byron

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I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A Budget of Paradoxes by John Martley

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Love Dissembled: From 'As You Like It,' Act III. Sc. 5 by William Shakespeare

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Her Likeness by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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She Walks in Beauty: From 'Hebrew Melodies' by Lord Byron

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She Is Not Fair to Outward View by Hartley Coleridge

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Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Verses Written in an Album by Thomas Moore

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To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington

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To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe

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On a Girdle by Edmund Waller

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Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

The White Rose (Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress) by Anonymo…

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A Song by Thomas Carew

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Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller

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Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes by Robert Herrick

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O, Do Not Wanton with Those Eyes by Ben Jonson

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Black and Blue Eyes by Thomas Moore

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Blue Eyes by John Keats

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O, Saw Ye the Lass? by Richard Ryan

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A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney

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My Sweetheart's Face by John Allan Wyeth

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Her Guitar by Frank Dempster Sherman

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On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman

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Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

O, Fairest of the Rural Maids! by William Cullen Bryant

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To a Lady (On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully) by John James Piatt

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On the Road to Chorrera by Arlo Bates

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The Milking-Maid by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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Lovely Mary Donnelly by William Allingham

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The Irish Spinning-Wheel by Alfred Perceval Graves

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The Low-Backed Car by Samuel Lover

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A Gage d'Amour by Austin Dobson

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An Experience and a Moral by Frederick Swartwout Cozzens

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At the Church Gate by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Love: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act III. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare

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Love Is a Sickness by Samuel Daniel

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The Shepherd and the King by Robert Greene

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Love: From 'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

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Love and Woman: From 'Love's Labour's Lost,' Act IV. Sc. 3 by William Shakespea…

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Ah, How Sweet: From 'Tyrannic Love,' Act IV. Sc. 1 by John Dryden

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Welcome, Welcome, Do I Sing by William Browne

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Love: From the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto III by Sir Walter Scott

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Song by Sir Charles Sedley

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If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing by Michelangelo

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Sonnet by George Chapman

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Love's Silence by Sir Philip Sidney

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When Will Love Come? by Pakenham Beatty

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Why? by Mary Louise Ritter

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The Annoyer by Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Three Loves by Lucy H. Hooper

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Love Scorns Degrees: From 'The Mountain of the Lovers' by Paul Hamilton Hayne

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Love Not Me for Comely Grace by Anonymous

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Light by Francis W. Bourdillon

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O Mistress Mine: From 'Twelfth Night,' Act II. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

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Philomela's Ode (That She Sung in Her Arbor) by Robert Greene

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A Fiction: How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow by 'A.W.'

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Wishes for the Supposed Mistress by Richard Crashaw

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A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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My Choice by William Browne

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A Maiden's Ideal of a Husband: From 'The Contrivances' by Henry Carey

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Rosalynd's Complaint by Thomas Lodge

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Cupid Swallowed by Leigh Hunt

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Green Grow the Rashes O by Robert Burns

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Perfume by Edmund William Gosse

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Life by Lizzie M. Little

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Kate Temple's Song by Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk

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The First Kiss by Thomas Campbell

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Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love by George, Lord Lyttelton

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Athulf and Ethilda by Sir Henry Taylor

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Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Blest as the Immortal Gods by Sappho

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I Dreamt I Saw Great Venus by Bion

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Francesca da Rimini: From the 'Divina Commedia: Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

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Dinna Ask Me by John Dunlop

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O Swallow, Swallow, Flying South: From 'The Princess' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Song: From 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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If Doughty Deeds My Lady Please by Robert Graham of Gartmore

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The Kiss by Robert Herrick

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An Opal by Ednah Procter Clarke Hayes

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Cupid and Campaspe: From 'Alexander and Campaspe,' Act III. Sc. 5 by John Lyly

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Kisses by William Strode

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Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Kissing's No Sin by Anonymous

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Song of the Milkmaid: From 'Queen Mary' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns

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Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by Robert Burns

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Sonnet Upon a Stolen Kiss by George Wither

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Caprice by William Dean Howells

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Sly Thoughts by Coventry Patmore

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The Whistle by Robert Story

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Behave Yoursel' Before Folk by Alexander Rodger

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Smile and Never Heed Me by Charles Swain

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The Dule's I' This Bonnet o' Mine (Lancashire Dialect) by Edwin Waugh

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A Spinster's Stint by Alice Cary

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The Telltale by Elizabeth Akers

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Love in the Valley by George Meredith

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Thoughts on the Commandments by George Augustus Baker

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The Love-Knot by Nora Perry

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The Chess-board by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

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Her Letter by Bret Harte

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The Plaidie by Charles Sibley

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Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly

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Kitty Neil by John Francis Waller

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The Little Milliner by Robert Buchanan

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Atalanta's Race: From 'The Earthly Paradise' by William Morris

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

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The Nymph's Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh

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Golden Eyes by Rufinus

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Phillida and Corydon by Nicholas Breton

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The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington by Anonymous

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Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? by Anonymous

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My Eyes! How I Love You by John Godfrey Saxe

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The Brookside by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

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The Little Red Lark by Alfred Perceval Graves

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Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Somebody by Anonymous

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The Exchange by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Love's Logic by Anonymous

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The Night-piece by Robert Herrick

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Sweet Meeting of Desires: From 'The Angel in the House' by Coventry Patmore

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Story of the Gate by T.H. Robertson

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Doris: A Pastoral by Arthur Joseph Munby

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Among the Heather by William Allingham

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Rory O'More; or, All for Good Luck by Samuel Lover

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Cooking and Courting by Anonymous

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Ca' the Yowes by Isabel Pagan

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The Siller Croun by Susanna Blamire

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Duncan Gray Cam' Here to Woo by Robert Burns

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How to Ask and Have by Samuel Lover

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Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent by Samuel Lover

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Widow Machree by Samuel Lover

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Widow Malone by Charles Lever

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I'm Not Myself at All by Samuel Lover

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I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart by Sir John Suckling

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Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Anonymous

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The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell

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Popping Corn by Anonymous

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The Friar of Orders Gray by Thomas Percy

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The Hermit: From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' by Oliver Goldsmith

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The Laird o' Cockpen by Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne

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Othello's Defence: From 'Othello,' Act I. Sc. 3 by William Shakespeare

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The Earl o' Quarterdeck: A New Old Ballad by George MacDonald

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Aux Italiens by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

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