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Title	Author	Year
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]	William Wordsworth	1815
From “The Lady of the Lake” (Canto I)	Sir Walter Scott	1810
To the Daisy	William Wordsworth	1807
Sonnet VIII	Luís de Camões	1803
Sonnet XCI [I can in groups these mimic flowers compose]	Charlotte Smith	1800
[When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild,]	Wallada bint al-Mustakfi	1796
From “The Temple of Nature,” Canto I (The Production of Life) [III. Now rose in purple pomp the breezy dawn,]	Erasmus Darwin	1791
Winter: A Dirge	Robert Burns	1786
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips	Anna Williams	1766
The Author’s Picture	Thomas Blacklock	1754
The Sluggard	Isaac Watts	1715
Winter	Anne Bradstreet	1650
The Pulley	George Herbert	1633
Love’s Growth	John Donne	1633
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65)	William Shakespeare	1609
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)	William Shakespeare	1609
[The long love that in my thought doth harbour]	Thomas Wyatt	1557
My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness	Thomas Wyatt	1557
So Cruel Prison	Henry Howard	1557

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