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"Antona's Banks" (1797) by anon. (1)
"Auld Lang Syne" (1)
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"Battle of the Baltic" (1805) by Thomas Campbell (1)
"Bernardo and Alphonso" (1823) by John Gibson Lockhart (1)
"Boadicea" by William Cowper (1)
"Devil of Glenluce" (1654) (1)
"Here's a Health to Them That's Awa'" (1792) by Robert Burns (1)
"How Sleep the Brave" (1746) by William Collins (1)
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" (1832) by Robert Browning (1)
"Inferno" from The Divine Comedy by Dante (1)
"It is Great for Our Country to Die" by James Gates Percival (1)
"Ivry" (1842) by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1)
"Launch of a First-Rate" by Thomas Campbell (1)
"Leonidas" by George Croly (1)
"Lines Suggested by the Statue of Arnold von Winkelried" by Thomas Campbell (1)
"Locksley Hall" (1842) by Alfred Tennyson (1)
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"Lord of the Isles" by Walter Scott (1)
"Lucretius" (1868) by Alfred Tennyson (1)
"Marmion" (1808) by Walter Scott (1)
"Marseillaise" (2)
"Mary Queen of Scots" (1833) by William Wordsworth (1)
"Of Books" (1580) by Michel Montaigne (1)
"On a Bust of Dante" by Thomas William Parsons (1)
"Rhodon and Iris" (1631) by Ralph Knevet (2)
"Song of Praise on the Great Sahara" (n.d.) by Emir Abd-El-Kader (1)
"Song of the Greek Poet" by George Gordon Noel Byron (1)
"The Battlefield" by William Cullen Bryant (1)
"The Birks of Aberfeldie" by Robert Burns (1)
"The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna" (1817) by Charles Wolfe (1)
"The Excommunication of the Cid" (1823) by John Gibson Lockhart (1)
"The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth" (1861) by Gerald Massey (1)
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"The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (1805) by Walter Scott (2)
"The Men of 'Forty-Eight" by Gerald Massey (1)
"The Prisoner of Chillon" (1816) by Lord Byron (1)
"The Testimony of Margaret Fox concerning her late Husband George Fox, together with a brief Account of some of his Travels, Sufferings, and Hardships, endured for the Truth's sake" (1694) by Margaret Fox (1)
"To a Mountain Daisy" (1786) by Robert Burns (1)
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"Verses Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-Piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth" by Robert Burns (1)
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