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Pope, Alexander and John Arbuthnot. Letter to Jonathan Swift. 5 Dec. 1732.

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Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

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Lord Byron. Letter To Thomas Moore. 28 Oct. 1815.

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Lord Byron. Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection, edited by Richard Lansdown. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Lebed der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer. [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver.] 17 Jan. 1932, omödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

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Collier, Mary. "The Three Wise Sentences, from the First Book of Esdras." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

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Collier, Mary. "The Three Wise Sentences Taken from The First Book of Esdras." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.

From wine what sudden friendship springs!

John Gay

Fables (Part 2)

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Gay, John. "The Squire and his Cur." Fables. London: John Knapton, Paul Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738, pt. 2. 1738.

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Milton, John. "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle." 29 Sept. 1634, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow, England, UK, line 410.

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Milton, John. "A Masque...Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, line 410.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896, no. 62, I. 21.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. "A Shropshire Lad." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 62, I. 21.

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
That's where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman

Out Where the West Begins

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Chapman, Arthur. "Out Where the West Begins." Out Where the West Begins: And Other Western Verses. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917, I. 1.

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 8.

What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

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Bramston, James. The Art of Politics. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1729.

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Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

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Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." Poems 1929. Seizin Press, 1929, l. 10-12.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 10-12.

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Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects; to which are added Hymns. London: J. and W. Oliver, 1774.

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Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." William Cowper's Olney Hymns. Curiosmith, 2009.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 7.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 7.

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Wordsworth, William. "Ode." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. st. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "Ode ('There was a time')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 1.

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to Edward Blount. 10 Feb. 1715-1716.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 153-154.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 2, l. 1-18.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 2, l. 1-18.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Harper's Weekly, 8 Nov. 1902.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 1998.

Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort's a cripple and comes ever slow.

Michael Drayton

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Drayton, Michael. "The Barons' Wars." The Barons' Wars, Nymphidia, and Other Poems. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1887.