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With golden peacock proudly on one shoulder - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXII: The Peacock and the Nightingale" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Terror and darkness to the proud - Avena "Columbia's Banner"

When proud Fame entices - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Song"

Where Fame's proud temple shines - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Now you are prouder grown than Troy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"

That proud armadas' trampled shards - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

And the proud swans stray - Robert Bridges "Elegy"

Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And drove the proud Plantagenet before him - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

A silence proud and cold - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]

At so proud an altitude - "Contentment"

Ere I wore proud chains of diamonds, forged of bitter, frozen tears - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

Their natural hard proud strength disown - Barry Cornwall "The Stormy Petrel" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]

That proudly stood to meet the whirlwind - William Cory "Asterope"

Proud of borrowed spoils - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Dust, through which proud blood once flowed - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Proud of the skill with which you play this game - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To hide proud kings from common eyes - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"

Proud of plume and paint - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Proud as an eagle riding to the sun - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Safe-conduct and a proud retreat - Helen Parry Eden "A Parley with Grief"

Proudly with his spoil returning - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

The proud pavilions that we weave at will - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Your passion high and proud - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

With the proud monarchs of our eastern heights - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

But proud of the weight of our chain - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

The desolate abomination stands most proudly - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Soars fearless and proud 'mid the lightnings - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

A morning phoenix with proud roar - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"

In proud Fame's serene dominions - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

With a proud defiant beauty - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)

Dreams of prouder hours to come - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

With proud sorrow in their eyes - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"

And build her eyrie in defiance proud - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

In proud supremacy of guilt alone - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

The proud spirit's veil - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"

Proud guardians of the regal flood - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"

Shared a prouder doom - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

A proud sweet-pea that scorns to be a vine - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"

The earth beneath the proudest seat - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

To get even and humble proud heaven - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Lowered your proud flag in surrender complete - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The troubles of our proud and angry dust - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"

Which failure cannot cast down nor success make proud - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"

Too proud for penance - A.M. Juster "An Apostle Falls"

Quarrel with the proud forests - John Keats "Hyperion"

Proudly careering his course with joy - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

For mortal eyes too proudly coy - Archibald Lampman "June"

The proud radiance of that glorious flame - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Passing Voice"

As proud as a cheap melancholy - Hailey Leithauser "Mono No Aware"

A ruined gasp too proud - Hailey Leithauser "Sex Obstreperous"

Could have crumbled proud belief - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Her heart's proud empire - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

Proud palaces of cumbrous lies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Crowned to the full her proud magnificence - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Proud and perilous passion - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"

When he might build him a proud temple there - "Memorials [Who that surveys this span of earth we press]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

The proudest seasons find their graves - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

My fists clenched proudly against a whimper - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"

Unbroken symbol of proud histories - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Adore the proud on bended knee - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

For the vengeance of Tara's proud hill - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Carry them careful and very proud - Lola Ridge "Betty"

The proud wish to command - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"

Stronger than all proud men - Carl Sandburg "Death Snips Proud Men"

The proud glories that entice us - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"

Your proud heart disowned - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"

Whose beauties proudly make them cruel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXI"

Mouth of starry proud desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"

Strung my proud harp to the wave - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Chord Unsung"

Proud child of fortune - Clarence Victor Stahl "Inspiration"

No prouder than the crow - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Oriole"

The proud and the strong have departed - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"

Eyes too proud to thank the sky and sea - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: I. Ventimiglia"

Thy proudest torches yet shall be their names - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

With wishes proud but vain - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

When his proud glory gladdens every view - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: III"

And every weed grow proud - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Such a proud and crashing wave - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"

A prouder crown and a more grievious loss - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle

Like proud Lucifer descending - Arthur Weir "Fleurs de Lys: The Captured Flag"

Too pure and proud for scorn - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"

In the proud silences forever - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Proud bird of the shore - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"


Lilies, just over-proud for grace - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]


Proud-eyed Apollo's bow is broken - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"


Pale and purse-proud children of the fog - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]


Pride.


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