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SICK JOKES [3/3]
 160. Evelyn Pyne - A Witness
 161. Thomas Hood - The Dream of Eugene Aram, the Murderer
 162. Anonymous - Edward, Edward
 163. Alan Dugan - Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken
 164. Walter de la Mare - The Feckless Dinner-Party
 165. Kenneth Fearing - Dirge

SICK JOKES [2/3]
 154. Rudyard Kipling - The Undertaker's Horse
 155. Algernon Charles Swinburne - After Death
 156. Thomas Hardy - 'Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?'
 157. Owen Meredith - The Portrait
 158. Anonymous - Lord Randal
 159. Thomas Hardy - At The Draper's

SICK JOKES [1/3]
 147. W.H. Auden - Miss Gee
 148. Thomas Hood - Tim Turpin
 149. Richard Harris Barham - The Legend of Hamilton Tighe
 150. William Wordsworth - Goody Blake and Harry Gill
 151. Robert W. Service - The Cremation of Sam McGee, 3 stars. [2022]
 152. Robert Graves - The Suicide in the Copse
 153. Thomas Hardy - In the Cemetery

CRUELTY [2/2]
 140. Owen Meredith - Going Back Again
 141. John Donne - The Apparition
 142. Robert Browning - The Laboratory
 143. Thomas Middleton - from The Witch
 144. Percy Bysshe Shelley - from The Cenci
 145. Thomas Lovell Beddoes - from Death's Jest Book
 146. Robert Browning - Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis

CRUELTY [1/2]
 133. George D. Painter - from The Road to Sinodun
 134. William Blake - A Poison Tree
 135. Anonymous - A Little Boy Threw
 136. Christopher Marlowe - from The Jew of Malta
 137. William Rowley - from The Witch of Edmonton
 138. Robert Browning - Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
 139. William Plomer - Mews Flat Mona

LOVESICKNESS [4/4]
 126. Michael Field - Your Rose is Dead
 127. William Blake - The Sick Rose
 128. Michael Field - A Dying Viper
 129. William Blake - 'I saw a Chapel all of gold'
 130. Thomas Gordon Hake - The Snake-Charmer
 131. John Betjeman - Late-Flowering Lust
 132. Peter Porter - Metamorphosis

Word: "Still doth his soul's vague longing skim
The pool beloved: he hears the hiss
That siffles at the sedgy rim,
Recalling days of former bliss,
And the death-drops, that fall in showers,
Seem honied dews from shady flowers."

1. intr. To blow with a sibilant sound; to whistle, hiss.

LOVESICKNESS [3/4]
 119. John Keats - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
 120. Augusta Webster - Circe
 121. Richard Le Gallienne - Beauty Accurst
 122. George D. Painter - from The Road to Sinodun
 123. Vincent O'Sullivan - The Lady
 124. Thomas Beedome - The Question and Answer
 125. John Donne - The Flea

LOVESICKNESS [2/4]
 113. John Collop - The Leper Cleansed
 114. Francis Bret Harte - What the Bullet Sang
 115. Richard Crashaw - Upon the Bleeding Crucifix
 116. Wilfred Owen - Greater Love
 117. John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley - from Jael
 118. Algernon Charles Swinburne - Faustine

LOVESICKNESS [1/4]
 107. Lionel Johnson - The Dark Angel
 108. Arthur Symons - Bianca
 109. Thomas Gordon Hake - The Birth of Venus
 110. Ted Hughes - Macaw and Little Miss
 111. Jack Clemo - The Plundered Fuchsias
 112. William Empson - Letter II