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My joy of youthful sports - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)

Wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Win a glimpse of all the sport within - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

Sung by the myriads that sport through the sky - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "The Peacock 'At Home' by a Lady"

Jocund sports beguile the silent hours - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]

While each his favorite sport enjoys - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

Legitimate sport for exuberant wit - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"

A silvery ripple dancing for her sport - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"

Light that sports on frozen streams - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Sport for the winds that come after - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"

Of all the cutthroat combat sports - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Clinic and Oracle"

Storms to brave, with thunderbolts to sport - Friederich Schiller "Elegy on the Death of a Young Man" transl. not credited

The sport by strange intruder broken short - Sir Walter Scott "Lufra [from The Lady of the Lake" [To Your Dog and to My Dog. PG. 1916]

What time you sported in the lifting tides - James Stephens "Sean O'Cosgair"


Little lines of sportive wood run wild - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"


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