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Author (poems / stories)

Addison, Joseph - (19)
Aiken, Conrad Potter - (100/2)
Akenside, Mark - (73)
Akhmatova, Anna - (32)
Alcott, Louisa May - (75/25)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey - (36/17)
Alger, Horatio - (66/52)
Alighieri, Dante - (100/1)
Allingham, William - (48)
Amichai, Yehuda - (44)
Ammons, A. R. - (31)
Amott, Lennox - (16)
Anderson, Elizabeth - (2)
Archer, Jean C. - (2)
Arnold, Matthew - (151/3)
Balestier, Wolcott - (0/21)
Barham, Richard Harris - (23)
Barnes, William - (29)
Bates, Clara Doty - (32)
Bates, Katharine Lee - (18)
Baudelaire, Charles - (236/2)
Behn, Aphra - (14)
Belloc, Hilaire - (61/3)
Benet, Stephen Vincent - (33/1)
Bennett, Charles Henry - (2/2)
Bierce, Ambrose - (16)
Blake, William - (140)
Boake, Barcroft - (36/3)
Boldrewood, Rolf - (0/1)
Bowles, William Lisle - (143)
Bradstreet, Anne - (40)
Brecht, Bertolt - (32)
Brereton, John Le Gay - (67)
Bronte, Anne - (69/2)
Bronte, Charlotte - (25/4)
Bronte, Emily - (52/1)
Bronte, Patrick - (12)
Brooke, Rupert - (97/1)
Brown, Thomas Edward - (24)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - (115)
Browning, Robert - (214/6)
Bryant, William Cullen - (132/3)
Burns, Robert - (503/1)
Burrows, Joseph - (1)
Butler, Ellis Parker - (74/9)
Byron, George Gordon - (189/12)
Campbell, John - (48)
Campbell, Thomas - (34)
Campion, Thomas - (13)
Carew, Thomas - (37)
Carleton, Will - (22)
Carman, Bliss (William) - (122)
Carmichael, Jennings (Grace) - (2)
Carr, John (Sir) - (112/1)
Carroll, Lewis - (74/3)
Carryl, Guy Wetmore - (41)
Cassels, Walter R. - (49)
Castleman, Virginia Carter - (1)
Cawein, Madison Julius - (960)
Chant, Joseph Horatio - (86)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - (69/34)
Churchill, Charles - (24)
Clare, John - (384)
Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop - (1/18)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (132/2)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (18)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - (53)
Collier, Ada Langworthy - (6)
Collins, William - (11)
Colman, George - (8)
Coolidge, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) - (68)
Cowper, William - (308)
Crane, Walter - (150/1)
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson - (13/1)
Cuthbertson, James Lister - (10)
Daley, Victor James - (93)
Darwin, Erasmus - (8)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (4)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (35)
Derham, Enid - (8)
Dickinson, Emily - (448)
Dix, William Chatterton - (1)
Dobson, Henry Austin - (101/2)
Doneghy, George W. - (64)
Dowson, Ernest Christopher - (76/5)
Doyle, Arthur Conan - (60/75)
Drummond, William Henry - (72)
Dyson, Edward - (95/98)
Edgar, Marriott - (35)
Foott, Mary Hannay - (30)
Forrest, M. - (2)
Frost, Robert Lee - (168)
Gordon, Adam Lindsay - (71)
H. H. C. C. - (1)
Harte, (Francis) Bret - (120/62)
Hayes, John Milton - (7)
Hebblethwaite, James - (4)
Heney, Thomas William - (4)
Herrick, Robert - (299)
Hunt, James Henry Leigh - (24)
Ide, Abijah M. - (3)
Irving, Washington - (52/27)
Jennings, Elizabeth - (11)
Jonson, Ben - (92)
Joyce, James - (51/19)
Keats, John - (147)
Kendall, Henry - (215)
Kenna, Francis - (1)
Kipling, Rudyard - (641/528)
Landor, Walter Savage - (103)
Lawson, Henry - (475/164)
Leland, Charles G. - (53)
Lowell, Robert - (16)
Masefield, John - (40)
McCrae, John - (29)
Miller, Joaquin - (19)
Milton, John - (131/1)
Orwell, George - (8/64)
Osborne, Louis Shreve - (1)
Paterson, Banjo - (227/58)
Poe, Edgar Allan - (84/100)
Pope, Alexander - (82)
Prior, Matthew - (189)
Qabbani, Nizar - (38)
Scott, (Sir) Walter - (157/7)
Shakespeare, William - (159/24)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles - (464/7)
Teasdale, Sara - (324)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord - (327)
Thomson, James - (10)
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis) - (46)
Wells, H. G. - (0/57)
Whitman, Walt - (338)
Whittier, John Greenleaf - (483)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker - (12/1)
Wilmot, John - (39)
Wordsworth, William - (969)
Yeats, William Butler - (384)

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Poem Title	Period	Lines	Reads
1: A Ballad Of John Silver		24	1335
2: A Brief Love Letter			1104
3: Laugh And Be Merry			1047
4: The Vote Of Thanks Debate		64	1036
5: The Road That Has No End		59	1025
6: Banjo, Of The Overflow	1892		994
7: The Overflow Of Clancy	1892	36	970
8: Riding Down From Bangor		24	962
9: The Manger Throne		30	955
10: A Woman’s Mood		56	946
11: An Old Bush Road		72	919
12: Children Of Light			911
13: Here's Luck		32	899
14: My Typewriter		24	896
15: Men Of Australia		40	895
16: Out Of Khaki		48	891
17: The Village Street		72	890
18: A Letter From Italy			886
19: Mickey Mollynoo		65	886
20: Night Shift		48	885
21: Peace, Blessed Peace		64	881
22: Marshal Neigh, V.C.		64	880
23: Repaired		54	879
24: 39		48	879
25: The Forest Reverie		37	878
26: Said Grenfell To My Spirit		12	876
27: A Chorus			874
28: Mud		48	871
29: The Enemies			870
30: The Toucher		85	869
31: Years After The War In Australia		70	865
32: A Dan Yell		48	860
33: Saint Peter		20	859
34: Peter Simson's Farm		64	858
35: Young Kings And Old		24	857
36: Sacred To The Memory Of “Unknown”		30	856
37: Epitaph On The Tombstone Of A Child			853
38: The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment		119	853
39: How The Land Was Won		64	851
40: Bound For The Lord-Knows-Where		70	851
41: Before We Were Married		16	850
42: Said The Kaiser To The Spy		56	849
43: The Water	1905	48	849
44: The Stranger's Friend		40	848
45: Victor		24	848
46: In The Downhill Of Life			847
47: A Word From The Bards		30	847
48: Above Crow’s Nest - Sydney		64	847
49: Simple Sister Goes To Sydney		20	846
50: And What Have You To Say		44	844
51: Bush Hay		32	841
52: In The Street		30	840
53: Scots Of The Riverina		20	839
54: To -----		20	839
55: In Possum Land		8	838
56: The Teams		40	838
57: The Things We Dare Not Tell		16	838
58: Of The True Endeavour		28	838
59: John Underhill		150	838
60: In The Day's When We Are Dead		36	836
61: The Stringy-Bark Tree		20	836
62: The Living Picture		64	836
63: To Isadore		50	835
64: Struck It At Last		56	833
65: William Forster		72	833
66: Second Class Wait Here		31	832
67: The Tracks That Lie By India		30	832
68: William Francis Bartlett		44	832
69: Since Nellie Came To Live Along The Creek		70	831
70: The Three Kings		24	831
71: Cypher Seven "07"		88	830
72: Hannah Thomburn		104	830
73: The Birthday Wreath		30	830
74: I'd Back Agen The World		60	829
75: In The Storm That Is To Come		32	829
76: The Triumph Of The People	1891	20	829
77: The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon		16	827
78: The Tragedy		16	826
79: The Gadfly		56	826
80: This Living Hand		8	824
81: The Auction		18	823
82: Winter Roses		32	820
83: Jack Cornstalk		24	816
84: The Vanguard		20	815
85: In The Evil Days		55	814
86: Say Goodbye When Your Chum Is Married		16	813
87: The Two Samaritans And The Tramp	1890	21	812
88: The Watchers	1862	66	812
89: For He Was A Jolly Good Fellow		30	811
90: The Welcome		32	811
91: The Boatman Of Kinsale		32	810
92: The Uncultured Rhymer To His Cultured Critics		40	807
93: The Vagabond		108	807
94: Marshall's Mate		70	803
95: Dedication - Songs Of Labor		45	803
96: Knocked Up		32	802
97: The Wishing Bridge		52	802
98: To John C. Fremont	1861	26	801
99: The Trailing Arbutus	1879	18	798
100: What The Traveller Said At Sunset		44	794