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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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On The Report That A Wooden Bridge Was To Be Built At Westminster
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An Elegy on Parting
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The Rainbow
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Death of the Stag
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When Last We Parted
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Through Foulest Fogs
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In a Christian Churchyard
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Rule Britannia
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Sunday up the River
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To His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales
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Verses Addressed To Amanda
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The Vine
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A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell
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Dawn In Summer
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On The Death Of Mr Aikman
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On Beauty
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The Incomparable Soporific Doctor
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A Song of Sighing
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Mr. MacCall at Cleveland Hall
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Epitaph On Miss Stanley, In Holyrood Church, Southampton
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The Study and Beauties of the Works of Nature
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Scene Between May and June
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A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life.
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Hymn To God's Power
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Noontide Retreat of Summer As a Haunt for Meditation
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