Potential Titles: Joseph Rodman Drake

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Seven long ages doomed to dwell - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Writhe and bleed beneath the tread of the centipede - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Bound in a cobweb dungeon dim - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

The last faint spark of its burning train - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Rugged and dim was his onward track - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

From the sorrel leaf and the henbane bud - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

And followed wherever the sturgeon led - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

And shine with a thousand changing dyes - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

The cricket has called the second hour - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

The prowling gnat fled fast away - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

And gashed their shadowy limbs of wind - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

To meet the thousand eyes of night - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

To tread the bounds of nature's stormy verge - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

For a seat on Appalachia's brow - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

No fairies haunt our verdant meads - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

No grinning imps deform our blazing hearth - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

Fair reason checks these monsters - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

When the vesper dew of heaven descends - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"

Some poor Ariel penanced in the rock - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"


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