User:Alien333/Poems
Floats a random poem from the Poems I've proofread, to the right (example output below).
Takes no parameters: {{User:Alien333/Random poem}}
They're not filtered in any way, so there's no guarantee on the quality of it, although it's mostly good.
Relying on User:Alien333/Poemlist to get a subpage list, of which every page is itself a poem list. These poem lists are concatenated (there are multiple to avoid making the page too large). A poem is then picked with a sketchy but fast random choice and transcluded (hiding {{similar}}'s and {{header}}'s).
I have done 147 collections, for a total of 10834 individual poems, so about 74 poems per collection.
I currently intend to do all collections I can find on IA a) by women b) that don't have {{ls}} and c) are titled "Poems". I have identified 245 (though some scans on closer inspection may be bad). My progress:
Example output
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Random poem: Poems (Charlotte Allen)/The Heart's Devotion THE HEART'S DEVOTION. 'T is not alone within the sacred dome, Reared by man's hands, that homage should be paidTo Him who sits on the Eternal Throne, That by no human genius e'er was made. But there 's a temple 'neath the smiling skies, A sacred altar 'neath yon starry sphere;And there our deepest gratitude should rise, Seeking an access to our Father's ear. In the wide fields, or in the shady wood, In days bright sunshine, or at evening dim, Beneath the arch of Heaven, in solitude, There, should we breathe our prayer and vesper hymn. And there 's an Altar, the domestic hearth, 'Round which to daily congregate, in prayer,Would summon all our purest feelings forth, And earth would more a hallowed radiance wear. Is there no other altar we can find, A constant offering on the shrine to raise,No innate power our feelings there to bind, And teach our heart to sing our Maker's praise Within our breasts we feel another fane, From whence the incense of our warmest loveShould isssue forth free from all earthly stain, To God our Father, in the realms above.
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Poem lists at Special:PrefixIndex/User:Alien333/Random poem/.