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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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In the Train
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Gifts
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In the Train
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Gifts
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Evening In Autumn
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To The God Of Fond Desire
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The Morning Lark
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A Poetical Epistle To Sir William Bennet, Bart. of Grubbat
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Come, Gentle God
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Songs In The Masque Of Alfred: To Alfred
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Song
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The Four Seasons : Summer
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On May
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To The Reverend Patrick Murdoch, Rector Of Stradishall, In Suffolk
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Once in a Saintly Passion
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The Four Seasons : Autumn
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The Castle Of Indolence
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E.B.B.
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The Vine
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The Four Seasons : Winter
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Insects In Summer
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William Blake
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Insomnia
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The Four Seasons : Spring
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Sunday at Hampstead
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