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Last year's vintage crowds our cellars - Margaret J. Preston "The Ballad of the Bell-Tower" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.101, May 1876]

The haunting mists still folded to their bosoms - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

O'er which they had kept night-watch - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

With its wild midnight orgies overworn - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Morning twilight slowly raised its lids - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

With fearful footsteps, and affrighted gaze - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Irradiate as the astral glow of planetary lustre - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Gave forth no presage of the coming wrath - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

That suffered not a moment's waste in sorrow - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Sliding downward to abysmal night - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

And rolled on in thunderous darkness - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Throbbing in the agitated swell of fathomless ether - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The eternal pit had emptied forth its demons - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

With scathing breath the deluge-fire of a descending hell - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A fierce raven screaming o'er its prey - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Her charities had overflowed for others - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Up the solemn aisle of thought - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

No undertow of hidden regret - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

And catch heaven's crystal shimmer - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Meditation smoothed the wing of thought - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Had written it with the flash of stars - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Musty with dank superstition - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

From which we shrink recoiling - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

Problems too subtle for our clumsy fingers - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

High truths that stretch beyond our reach - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

Give rather back the old hallucinations - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

That sent the gibbering echoes shrilling after - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

With wrathful curse was answer made - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

Heaped high within the Judgment Scales - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)

Were I only sure of a few kind years more - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Then my fears I'd slip for a while - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Turn and smile at their hated reckonings - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Squaring accounts for word and deed - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

My brain whirled and grew dizzy with sudden pain - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Fronting again those long laid fears - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Strong wine to strengthen me for my task - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

With a pride like Lucifer's, mocked control - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

Till I lost all measure of good or ill - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

And ere the spasm of fear was broke - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

The supremest splendor of earth or sky or sea - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

Miracles, sublime or tender, will wake no joy in me - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

The aspiration now with such fervor fraught - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

Lifts to heights of breathless exaltation - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

Like puppets in a wornout story - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

Then I closed my lips on a curse - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]

Stand and serve in the henchman's place - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]

Vanished before the spell of the Sacred Name - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]


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