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Left in sheath asleep and lost to action - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

The sword outwears its sheath - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"

A sheath of fibrous memories - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

In fume and fire to sheathe us - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

Of silence in a little sheath - Zona Gale "Violin"

Of the sword that knows no sheath - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"

Sheathe my feet in slippers of dried mud - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

The blood-root in its sheath of gray - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

Drawn blades never sheathed - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Wrath was bared of its sheath - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"

Sheath of thunderbolts and flowers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

With hungers sheathed to my sides - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

Wore as sheath and shield - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Out of sheaths of amethyst - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"

The golden sheath of a remembered day - Lola Ridge "The Dream"

His sword is rusting in its sheath - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

that sheaths its lethal secret in silence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"


Revenge unsheaths her murd'rous dagger - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

To unsheathe whatever torches they would - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

That moon-like sword the ascendant dead unsheathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"


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