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Outweigh.


With tender anise overweighed - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"


Lift the air that weighs like ice - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

In reason's balance her best offers weigh - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

To weigh as she counted their sorrow - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"

Their shouts weigh on wasteland and meadow - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

How much the hiding has weighed - Andrea Gibson "Gender in the Key of Lyme Disease"

To win, to weigh, to sort and sift - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

Weigh on the water and strain the rock - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"

Weighed us down as Samson in the temple - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

Weighing the planet in his palm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Centuries of rain weighed the windows down - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"

Think somehow loyalty weighs more - Carl Phillips "Something to Believe In"

Who makes his heavy burden weigh more light - Philo "The Tribute"

That weighs in her balance the spheres - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Weighed against something lighter than life - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Weighed with satiate passion's power - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Weigh anchor to the sound of psalms - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"

The burdens of distress weigh on us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Incidental notes to weigh it down - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Weigh down the wings of airborn birds - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Fastidious as a pharmacist weighing crystals - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"


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