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Mix with cloistered virtues - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"

Attentive eye on virtue's graceful deeds - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

If any worth or virtue were in me - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"

In virtue of her ruin - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

That virtue still endowers - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

Of paths for ampler virtue - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain - George Crabbe "The Library"

To let a red sword of virtue plunge into my heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

the square virtues and the oblong sins - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

Lend its virtue to my feeble sight - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

That bear the balance of the heart to Virtue's side - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

Your virtues over me like whips - Max Eastman "A Praiseful Complaint"

His virtues slumber with his dust - D.F. "Monument and Turf" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.725, 17 Nov. 1877]

No virtues left for you - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

Be accused because its virtues are abused - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Proclaim our virtue by their hate - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

All defect with virtue shines allied - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"

Across buried virtues and slain sins - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"

The virtues of method and rich supply - Linda Gregerson "Half Light"

From the still retreat of virtue - Hafiz "The Divan "XVIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

A distillery of virtue & fiction - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"

The burden of the cardinal virtues - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Use our virtues to betray us - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

Such virtue as commends the law - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

The flowing virtue of verdant surfaces - Hanae Jonas "Pastoral"

As herbs of healing virtue fail - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Virtues enumerated add up - Janet Kauffman "Virtues Enumerated Add Up"

The hidden virtue of herb and root - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Old virtues drying up - Kim Unsong "Sorry Souls"

Reveals Cosmic virtue - Kim Unsong "Trees"

Virtue comes from iron Within - Rudyard Kipling

Being a little weary of Roman virtue - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

With its virtues tip my hammer - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

By virtue of the sacred fire - E.M. "Part III. The Lathe of Morpheus"

The virtue behind clarity - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

Heroic lines on virtue's state - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"

By virtue of his worth - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

And virtue's path kept in my view - "My Mother" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]

By virtue of the earth's pride - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan

In a violet twilight of virtues and sins - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

Breathes the virtue of the Seraphim - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

A glittering jewel in virtue's crown - Dorothy Parker "Biographies"

By virtue of my choice - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Prologue"

No virtue in power - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"

Whose Virtue gilds the world below - Philo "The Tribute"

Virtue weaves for it a deathless crown - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

A crested virtue of his inanchored soul - Lynn Riggs "The Golden Cockerel"

Where virtues bloom eternally - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]

Went down into the world to exercise his virtue - Vijay Seshadri "Enlightenment"

To exercise his virtue - Vijay Seshadri "Enlightenment"

The virtue of this light - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

With its waters of eightfold Virtue - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Of all rich gems in Virtue's carcanet - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"

Away with charity, away with virtue - "The Way of Virtue: Away with Philosophers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Whose virtues are whispered above - Kate Louise Wheeler "Mother"

All the virtues of herbs and metals - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Who knew the virtue of the fatal fruit - "The Whore"

By virtue of brown eyes turning back the seasons - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"


A Book which is completed by virtuous deeds alone - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

Keeping men virtuous by a tether - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Devise some virtuous lie - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXII"

A virtual world unfit for the virtuous - Charles Wright "Description's the Art of Something or Other"


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