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James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.

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A Chant
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Spring Showers
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The Seasons: Winter
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To Fortune
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Waterfall
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The Happy Man
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Hymn on Solitude
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Happiness of a Country Life
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Night
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Sheep-Sheering
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Lines On Marle Field
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To Amanda - Come, Dear Amanda, Quit The Town
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On A Country Life
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Songs In The Masque Of Alfred: To Peace
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To The Memory Of The Right Honourable Lord Talbot, Late Chancellor Of Great Britain. Addressed To His Son.
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Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda
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On Happiness
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To The Nightingale
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In the Room
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A Pastoral Entertainment
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Two Sonnets
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Verses On Receiving A Flower From His Mistress
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Lavinia
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The Lover's Fate
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The doom of a city
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