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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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To Her I Love
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To a Pianiste
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An Elegy Upon James Therburn, In Chatto
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Lisy's Parting With Her Cat
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Approach to St. Paul's
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Reflections Suggested By Winter
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The Effects of Spring on Nature
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A Pastoral Betwixt David, Thirsis, And The Angel Gabriel, Upon The Birth Of Our Saviour
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Lines on his Twenty-Third Birthday
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Four Points in a Life
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Proem
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Stanzas Written By Thomson On The Blank Leaf Of A Copy Of His 'Seasons' Sent By Him To Mr. Lyttleton, Soon After The Death Of His Wife
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The Morning In The Country
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Summer
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Philosophy
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To H.A.B. on my forty-seventh birthday
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A Hymn
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A Recusant
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From the Midst of the Fire
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On Æolus's Harp
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Day
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To Seraphina
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The Fire That Filled My Heart of Old
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He, when young Spring protrudes the bursting gems
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Psalm CIV. Paraphrased
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