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Every line posy deals is copied word for word from one of these Project Gutenberg texts, with its line number kept, and checked against the text. Each author died before 1955, so every text is public domain in Australia.

• Sonnet 18

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 29

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 30

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 33

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 55

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 73

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 104

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 105

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 116

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 130

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 2

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 15

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 97

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 98

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 87

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnet 60

  William Shakespeare (d. 1616), Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1041

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 6

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 14

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 22

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 35

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 41

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 44

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (d. 1861), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #2002

• A Red, Red Rose

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• Auld Lang Syne

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 28 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• Ae Fond Kiss

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 24 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• John Anderson, My Jo

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• My Heart's in the Highlands

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 13 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• Sweet Afton

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 24 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• Of a' the Airts

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 19 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• A Man's a Man for A' That

  Robert Burns (d. 1796), Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1786) · 40 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1279

• To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

  Robert Herrick (d. 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #22421

• Cherry-Ripe

  Robert Herrick (d. 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #22421

• Delight in Disorder

  Robert Herrick (d. 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #22421

• To Daffodils

  Robert Herrick (d. 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648) · 20 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #22421

• Upon Julia's Clothes

  Robert Herrick (d. 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648) · 6 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #22421

• To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything

  Robert Herrick (d. 1674), Hesperides and Noble Numbers (1648) · 24 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #22421

• A Birthday

  Christina Rossetti (d. 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #16950

• Remember

  Christina Rossetti (d. 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #16950

• Up-Hill

  Christina Rossetti (d. 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #16950

• Song

  Christina Rossetti (d. 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #16950

• Song

  Christina Rossetti (d. 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #16950

• Echo

  Christina Rossetti (d. 1894), Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (1866) · 18 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #16950

• Hope

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• If I can stop one heart from breaking

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 7 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• I'm nobody! Who are you?

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• Success

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• There is no frigate like a book

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• To make a prairie

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 5 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• Wild nights

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• The Brain

  Emily Dickinson (d. 1886), Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (1890) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12242

• The Lamb

  William Blake (d. 1827), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) · 20 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1934

• Laughing Song

  William Blake (d. 1827), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1934

• Infant Joy

  William Blake (d. 1827), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1934

• A Cradle Song

  William Blake (d. 1827), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) · 32 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #1934

• To Autumn

  John Keats (d. 1821), Poems Published in 1820 (1820) · 33 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #23684

• Bright Star

  John Keats (d. 1821), Poems Published in 1820 (1820) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #23684

• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

  William Wordsworth (d. 1850), The Poetical Works, volume 3 (1807) · 24 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12383

• She Was a Phantom of Delight

  William Wordsworth (d. 1850), The Poetical Works, volume 3 (1807) · 30 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12383

• Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

  W. B. Yeats (d. 1939), The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #32233

• In Memoriam, CVI

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (d. 1892), In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850) · 32 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #70950

• In Memoriam, XI

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (d. 1892), In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850) · 20 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #70950

• The Princess: Sweet and low

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (d. 1892), The Princess (1847) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #791

• The Princess: The splendour falls

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (d. 1892), The Princess (1847) · 18 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #791

• The Princess: Now sleeps the crimson petal

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (d. 1892), The Princess (1847) · 14 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #791

• A Shropshire Lad, II

  A. E. Housman (d. 1936), A Shropshire Lad (1896) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #5720

• A Shropshire Lad, XIII

  A. E. Housman (d. 1936), A Shropshire Lad (1896) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #5720

• Happy Thought

  Robert Louis Stevenson (d. 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) · 2 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #25609

• The Swing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (d. 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) · 12 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #25609

• The Land of Counterpane

  Robert Louis Stevenson (d. 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #25609

• Farewell to the Farm

  Robert Louis Stevenson (d. 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #25609

• My Shadow

  Robert Louis Stevenson (d. 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) · 16 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #25609

• How Doth the Little Crocodile

  Lewis Carroll (d. 1898), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #11

• You Are Old, Father William

  Lewis Carroll (d. 1898), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) · 32 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #11

• Through the Looking-Glass (the opening verses)

  Lewis Carroll (d. 1898), Through the Looking-Glass (1871) · 36 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12

• A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky

  Lewis Carroll (d. 1898), Through the Looking-Glass (1871) · 21 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12

• Jabberwocky

  Lewis Carroll (d. 1898), Through the Looking-Glass (1871) · 28 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12

• The Walrus and the Carpenter

  Lewis Carroll (d. 1898), Through the Looking-Glass (1871) · 108 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #12

• The Owl and the Pussy-cat

  Edward Lear (d. 1888), Nonsense Songs (1871) · 11 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #13647

• The Duck and the Kangaroo

  Edward Lear (d. 1888), Nonsense Songs (1871) · 8 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #13647

• How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

  Edward Lear (d. 1888), Nonsense Books (1846) · 33 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #13650

• A Nonsense Alphabet (I)

  Edward Lear (d. 1888), Nonsense Songs (1871) · 130 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #13647

• A Nonsense Alphabet (II)

  Edward Lear (d. 1888), Nonsense Songs (1871) · 182 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #13647

• A Nonsense Alphabet (III)

  Edward Lear (d. 1888), Nonsense Songs (1871) · 130 lines · Project Gutenberg ebook #13647