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• Ten Bulls, by Kuo'an, trans. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps (HTML at interfaith.org)

• Ten Bulls, by Kuo'an, trans. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps (HTML at interfaith.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Kalama Sutta: The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry, trans. by Soma Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Psalms of the Sisters (London: Pali Text Society, 1909), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, Entitled, Dhamma-Sangani (Compendium of States or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes (London: Royal Asiatic society, 1900), contrib. by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Buddhist Bible (first edition, 1932), ed. by Dwight Goddard (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Buddha's "Way of Virtue": A Translation of the Dhammapada from the Pali Text (London: John Murray, 1920), trans. by W. D. C. Wagiswara and Kenneth J. Saunders (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Buddhism in Translations (1896), ed. by Henry Clarke Warren (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Buddhist Scriptures: A Selection Translated From the Pali With Introduction (London: John Murray, 1913), ed. by E. J. Thomas (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Dhammapada: Das Hohe Lied der Wahrheit des Buddha Gautama (in German; Hamburg: A. Saal, 1920), trans. by Hans Much
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, trans. by Acharya Buddharakkhita (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Dhammapada; The Sutta-Nipata, trans. by F. Max Müller and V. Fausbøll (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Itivuttaka: This Was Said by the Buddha, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Psalms of the Sisters (London: Pali Text Society, 1909), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Questions of King Milinda, trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Vinaya Texts (3 volumes; from the Sacred Books of the East series), trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
  • Part I: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Part II: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Part III: HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Buddha's Words on Kamma: Four Discourses of the Buddha from the Majjhima Nikaya, trans. by Nanamoli Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Dhammapada, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Dhammapada, trans. by F. Max Müller (Gutenberg text)
• The Dhammapada, trans. by John Richards (text at Coombs-papers)
• The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest: Selected Texts from the Pali Canon and the Commentaries, trans. by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Jataka: or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 volumes; 1895-1907), ed. by Edward B. Cowell, trans. by Robert Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, and Robert Alexander Neil (multiple formats at archive.org and sacred-texts.com)
• The Jātaka, Together With Its Commentary: Being Tales of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha (7 volumes, in Pali with some English notes; 1877-1897), ed. by V. Fausbøll, contrib. by Dines Andersen
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org

• Buddhist Mahayana Texts, trans. by Edward B. Cowell, F. Max Müller, and J. Takakusu (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Saddharma-Pundarîka: or, The Lotus of the True Law, trans. by Hendrik Kern (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, Entitled, Dhamma-Sangani (Compendium of States or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes (London: Royal Asiatic society, 1900), contrib. by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Avadâna-C̜ataka: Cent Légendes (Bouddhiques), Traduites du Sanskrit (Annales du Musée Guimet book 18, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1891), ed. by Léon Féer
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Gallica

• The Jataka: or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 volumes; 1895-1907), ed. by Edward B. Cowell, trans. by Robert Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, and Robert Alexander Neil (multiple formats at archive.org and sacred-texts.com)
• The Jātaka, Together With Its Commentary: Being Tales of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha (7 volumes, in Pali with some English notes; 1877-1897), ed. by V. Fausbøll, contrib. by Dines Andersen
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org

• Buddhist Birth Stories, or Jātaka Tales: The Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant (only volume published of a planned Jataka translation; London: Trubner and Co., 1880), ed. by V. Fausbøll, trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jataka Tales, by Ellen C. Babbitt, illust. by Ellsworth Young (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• More Jataka Tales, by Ellen C. Babbitt, illust. by Ellsworth Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ten Bulls, by Kuo'an, trans. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps (HTML at interfaith.org)

• Ten Bulls, by Kuo'an, trans. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps (HTML at interfaith.org)

• Lays for the Sabbath: A Collection of Religious Poetry (Boston: Walker, Wise and Co., 1860), ed. by Emily Taylor and John Pierpont
  • HTML at Michigan
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Silex Scintillans (London: Blackie and Son Ltd., c1905), by Henry Vaughan, contrib. by W. A. Lewis Bettany
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ultima Veritas, and Other Verses (Boston et al.: The Pilgrim Press, c1912), by Washington Gladden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Colporteur's Commission: A Tract for the Times, in Several Scriptural Hymns (ca. 1862), by H. Keeling
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Made in the Pans (Edinburgh: Oliphant, ca. 1918), by Amy Carmichael, contrib. by Handley Dunelm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (with a memoir of the author; London: Strahan and Co., 1868), by Sarah Williams, ed. by E. H. Plumptre
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Golden Chain of Praise: Hymns (London: W. Hunt and Co., ca. 1868), by Thomas Hornblower Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Chain of Praise: Hymns (second edition, greatly enlarged; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894), by Thomas Hornblower Gill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Turn the Carpet, or, The Two Weavers: A New Song, in a Dialogue Between Dick and John (London: J. Marshall and R. White; Bath, UK: S. Hazard, 1796), by Hannah More, illust. by John Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • without illustration; HTML at ECCO TCP

• Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1920), by Jessie E. Sampter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secular and Religious Works of Penina Moïse, With Brief Sketch of Her Life (Charleston, SC: N. G. Duffy, 1911), by Penina Moïse, ed. by Council of Jewish Women (U.S.), Charleston Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heartsease Hymns (Cambridge, MA, 1901), by William P. McKenzie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• In the Wheat: Songs in Your Presence, by Charles L. Cingolani (HTML at cingolani.com)
• The Old Road to Paradise (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1918), by Margaret Widdemer (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Olive Tree (Cincinnati and New York: Printed for the author by the Methodist Book Concern, c1913), by E. Leigh Mudge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Christian Ballads (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1840), by A. Cleveland Coxe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Christian Ballads (revised edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865), by A. Cleveland Coxe, illust. by John Augustus Hows (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Before the Dawn: A Poem; With Introductory Lectures on Prophetic Symbols (Buffalo: Breed, Lent and Co., 1872), by Charles Rollin Burdick (multiple formats at archive.org)

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