Potential: Beauty
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somethingdarkerHeld close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
Beauteous streams flow through the dark of night - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
To hide in the form of something beautiful - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
As if the stone were glass fired and into beauty blown - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Hypnotized by the beauty of this strange new view - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Bright beauty of the risen dust - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
Deep flood-mark of beauty - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
Forgetting all save beauty - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"
The terrible extended beauty of the wordless - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
Not trusting the beautiful void to seek him out - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Too much beauty inhaled at once - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"
Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Surrounded with perfume and beauty untold - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Whose fruitage beautiful allures each sense - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VII--Midsummer"
Yoked to this body by beauty - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Hanging as eternal beauty - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
Beautiful but not serious - Rae Armantrout "Guess"
The ancient beauty of the commonplace - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
What a grand and beautiful force - Atticus "Magic in Love"
No toast to beauty shall my lips repeat - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Beauty protecting against summer scorch - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
The most beautiful seldom I ever saw - Mary Jo Bang "You Were You Are Elegy"
To feel the stab of beauty at the heart - Natalie Clifford Barney "Ah! Night!"
Spinning on beauty and hope - Lou Barrett "Double Portrait with Wineglass"
Bear the beauty of that much burning - Ellen Bass "This Was the Door"
Beauty of brass, beauty of fire - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
Beautiful monstrous dreams - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Where the wood drake rests in his beauty - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Physics to contain beauty in a box - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Torn fire glares on beauty - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
Beauty with a rusted mouth - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
An empress, in her blazonry of beauty - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Things beautiful and slow - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
To capture Beauty's hands - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
Trying to squeeze beauty into admonishment - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
Beauty's comfort-laden breath - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 12"
Beauty can kill more beautiful things - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Beauty can kill more beautiful things - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Their strange beauty my secret - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"
Most absolute in beauty - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Your gentle soul a well of beauty - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Given a prey for burning beauty to devour - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
And summon Beauty from her grave - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The beauty of the sinews of these States - Witter Bynner "This Man"
Shall become the beauty of the sinews of the world - Witter Bynner "This Man"
The kind of beauty steel lines ought to lack - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
They tear from you your beauty - Witter Bynner "Undressing You"
For how our scourge was beauty - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Turned again to beauty - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"
The roads that run through Beauty's realm - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
So casual in their beauty - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
A word that replaces beauty with doom - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"
I came so far for beauty - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"
The beauty of our weapons - Leonard Cohen "First We Take Manhattan"
All your songs of beauty fail - Leonard Cohen "Nightingale"
Begging in beauty's disguise - Leonard Cohen "A Singer Must Die"
Where Beauty sits to tyrannize - Hartley Coleridge "To a Lofty Beauty, from Her Poor Kinsman"
Baptized in the beauty of pure elements - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
Maddened with light from Beauty's sun - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Keep the rites of Beauty lost - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
A silver boat on the beautiful river - "The Cradle of Gold" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Beauty in a barefoot mood - Nathalia Crane "Old Maid's Reverie"
Keep your distant beauty - Stephen Crane "Untitled"
darkness and beauty of stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
Not all the Troys of Helen's beauty - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Where Beauty met me in a thousand moods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Though beauty is slain when I perish - H.D. "Fragment Sixty-eight"
The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
The secrets of my calming beauty - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Dreamings we brought and beauty - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
The distance between density & beauty - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Whose beauty dims my waking eyes - Walter de la Mare "Music"
Queen of beauty and of grace and precious worth - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
That Beauty, the stranger, and I had met - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
The opening beauties of thy face - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "To My Granddaughter"
On the beautiful bleak enamel paint job - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"
I will exhale beauty - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Joy and a kind of cold beauty - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
Everywhere the breath of Beauty blows - A.E. "The Great Breath"
That blurs your eyes with beauty - Katherine Edgren "The Swan"
To lose beauty in terror - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Give him beauty for rags - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Beauty through my senses stole - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"
All seeds of beauty to be born - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
A beautiful web of silver light - Eugene Field "Heigho, My Dearie"
That Beauty lives though lilies die - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Beauty's cruel syntax - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"
That beauty's self rose visible in the world - John Freeman "The Body"
Beauty pour upon the strangeness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
All laden with cargoes of beautiful dreams - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
Your beauty a vault - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Women in the Sciences: Hedy Lamarr Told to "Stop Silly Inventing""
That beauty's power which first destroy'd - Thomas Gent "Sonnet. On Seeing a Young Lady, I Had Previously Known, Confined in a Madhouse"
Dream that the dream of life is beautiful - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
In new ecstasy of branching beauty - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Beautiful birds nest inside your mind - Nikita Gill "The Forest"
Imagining beauty in a stranger's eyes - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Though your beauty were a net of unimagined power - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Transformed the night into a beautiful mosaic - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
The slayer of that demon-beauty - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Serpent's Crown"
Of Beauty long denied - Ivor Gurney "After Music"
Any beauty eyes might find - Ivor Gurney "Interval"
Might have seen beauty clear - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"
In winds of Beauty swinging - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
With a proud defiant beauty - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
A soul defiant with beauty - Nathalie Handal "The City Is Mine, Jay-Z"
Beautiful beyond dolphin dreaming - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Impenetrable as its own beauty - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
On one sore knee before beauty - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Trumpeting men through beauty - F.W. Harvey "The Bugler"
The stainless beauty of her name - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Give back in beauty the dread and the anguish - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
That my eyes may see the fearful beauty - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Was shame in you born before beauty? - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Since beauty and the stars were one - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
When beauty's trace is worn away - George Moses Horton "Memory"
See beauty through the tears - Walter E. Houghton, Jr. "Love Song"
Who carry beauties in their hearts - Langston Hughes "Water-Front Streets"
Blessed beauty from mischance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
The beautiful berry leaves a dark stain on the tongue - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
Still singing his beautiful warning - Didi Jackson "Bobolink"
The ironbark eucalyptus dwells in ignorance and beauty - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Beauty springing from the sod - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Cursed her bright beauty - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Where anger turns into beauty - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
The singed fume of things beautiful, noble, and wrong - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
Your most beautiful regret - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A power more strong in beauty - John Keats "Hyperion"
A thousand germs of light and beauty - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Remembers its former beauty - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"
And beauty was not the obvious choice - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"
You had to choose between smart and beautiful - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"
Hide beauty under beauty still - Lucy Larcom "November"
A beautiful anxious speck of a star - Stephen Leggett "For a Little Wheel"
Nevertheless persists in beauty - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
And open the beautiful gate - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
Seed of beauty in a ground of truth - Amy Lowell "The Promise of the Morning Star"
And drank its beauty of red and blue - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
For beauty has butterfly wings - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"
Her troubling beauty's power - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
Respecting beauty's prerogatives - Anthony Madrid "Siebenundvierzig"
Clothes them with thunders and beauty - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
Beauty emerge from debris in a flight of butterflies - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Beauty on the darkness hurled - John Masefield "Invocation"
Beauty chased by tragic laughter - John Masefield "King Cole"
In the rooms of a beautiful inn - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
Beauty in hardest action - John Masefield "Ships"
Robed in all her beauty sere - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"
Beauty that doesn't suffer rules - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Shall take Beauty in her citadel - Theodore Maynard "Beauty II: Absolute"
Mistaking loneliness for beauty - Shara McCallum "My Mother as Narcissus"
Went down in beauty - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"
Brute beautiful fact - Maureen N. McLane "As I was saying, the sun"
The massive beauty of your stacked skyline - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Seduced by the second beautiful harvest - Dante Micheaux "The Second Beautiful Harvest"
They dropped in beauty from the pitying sky - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
The torqued and rippling surface and the beautiful ravenous fish - Joseph Millar "Job"
And the breath gone out of beauty - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: IV"
Has looked on Beauty bare - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Beautiful in the whispers of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Who comes in beautiful decay - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Some sliver of disheveled beauty - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Cataracts"
Wild beauty extracted from black ashes - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
No beautiful element of unreason - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"
With a throng of beauty, dreams and loves - William Moore "Expectancy"
Arrived at bloom of beauty - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)
Taught me beauty's lessons - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Like an eclipse of beauty - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin
A terrible fruit of electric beauty - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Atom" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
The beauty of clashing troubadours - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
The beauty of weeping minstrels - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
Hard to regret beauty and easy to lie - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
With the beauty born of desolation - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"
In beauty reached the divine - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Those curious beautiful tinted maps - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Dearer than Helen's beauty - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Whose beauty is my sorrow - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"
Ride the beautiful long spine of grammar - Mary Oliver "Gratitude"
Beauty can both shout and whisper - Mary Oliver "Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way"
Of the inexplicable beauty of heaven - Mary Oliver "Red Bird Explains Himself"
Instantly beautiful to the bees - Mary Oliver "Writing Poems"
The beauty of what's missing - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Brought crimson October's beautiful decay - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Beauty smiled in the arms of Terror - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Shattered beauty hung - Dorothy Parker "Solace"
The bright arrows of beauty - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
The beautiful colors of extinction - Carl Phillips "Regime"
Beauty that attends oblivion - Carl Phillips "Tell Me a Story"
Beauty too bright for camouflage - Joy Priest "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"
The silent beauty of the noon - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Nothing beautiful belongs to us - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"
Of beauty without blame - Theodore H. Rand "The Rose"
In speech of beauty's lore - Theodore H. Rand "To W."
The beauty of the simulacrum - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Where beauty names itself - Adrienne Rich "Grating"
Dared mix beauty with courage - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Sweet thoughts and beautiful - John Rollin Ridge "Random Thoughts of Her"
Beautiful as gulls upon the water - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Turning harsh things to beauty - Lola Ridge "Mother"
so much lost you'd think beauty had left a lesson - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
The weeds now have their hour of beauty - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Good Old Days"
Refuse to abandon their beauty - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Restful beauty on the restless tide - Alice Wellington Rollins "Serenity"
Beauty deck the Spring in flowers - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Instead of having to be beautiful tomorrow - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"
Fleeting shadows of beautiful days - Thomas Runciman "Songs V"
Noiseless revels and the will of beauty go - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
Mount the spirit spires of beauty - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
Fond idolator at every shrine where beauty lingers - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Twin saints, unified in their beauty - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
Mother of beauty, mother of joy - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
A wound in beauty's side - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
Beauty blooms on every threshold - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
New notes of ghostly beauty - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The beauty of a mass of chrysanthemums - Diane Seuss "[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]"
Beauty's rose might never die - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Proving his beauty by succession - William Shakespeare "Sonnet II"
The parallels in beauty's brow - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"
Making beautiful old time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
Whose beauties proudly make them cruel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXI"
Saw beauty in a scrap of its light - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"
Who kissed the veil from Beauty's face - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Flit jewel bright and beautiful - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
Listening to the curious beauty of the sound of a million voices - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Beauty that tarries not, nor satisfies - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"
More beautiful than starlit moonstone - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
In those beautiful, too-brief moments - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Beauty as an agent to oblivion - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
Fairy gleams in rainbow beauty shine - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
In clouds of scintillating beauty - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"
Accost the air with a sentient beauty - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
Twisting a thousand beauties - George Soule "Winter's Pride"
Refracts discreet components of a beauty - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
Of all the beautiful demons - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Estelle"
Beauty for a moth's desire - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
Whoso drinks her beauty's golden wine - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
On custom's rust and Beauty's dust - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
Death is the mother of beauty - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Till I am crushed with beauty - Marion Strobel "Spring Morning"
The staff of beauty and the clothes of pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 75: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To bloom into some unexpected beauty - Carmen Sylva "The Sentinel"
Will always bear the beauty of chance - Arthur Sze "Under a Rising Moon"
Beckoning ghosts of crime and dreams of maddening beauty - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Beautiful and splendid things - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
For beauty as a flame - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
For whom all beauty burns - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
For beauty more than bitterness - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Thrill'd and thrall'd by perfect beauty's sight - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XII"
Shot through with beauty and with tears - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
May still be won in beauty's bowers - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"
Some fancied beauty to adorn - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
Even truth and beauty vanished - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Yield the keys of Beauty's gates - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"
And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Light and its beautiful doom - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Their first fealty sworn to beauty - Richard Chenevix Trench "On an Early Death"
To steep in hues of beauty - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
The rough edge of beauty - Natasha Trethewey "Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971"
Beauty a hackney cab of commerce - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"
The draught that Beauty brews - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"
Beauty folded in the flowers and leaves - Jehangir Jivaji Vakil "Revelation"
And restore the beautiful hopes of youth - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"
Sheen that bleeds blue beauty - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"
Dim earth's beauty with stain and spot - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Have rehearsed their beauty - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
Beauty through dusty glass - Derek Walcott "The Villa Restaurant"
Exerting Beauty's easy privilege - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
Behold the beauty of fairer skies - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
By beauty stabbed to death - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Afraid of beauty's dreadful secret - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The hour that beauty brings - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"
Terrible in beauty, age, and power - Walt Whitman "As I Ponder'd in Silence"
Comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]
Beautifully and completely rotten - William Carlos Williams "Perfection"
More beautiful than true - Katie Willingham "Notes on Relief"
A part of greater beauties than inform your heart - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"
Beautiful unsupported lies that simulate a universe - Humbert Wolfe "The Skies"
Slipping in between the beauty coming and the beauty gone - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Beauty’s ignorant ear - W.B. Yeats "The Scholars"
After earnest but beautiful failures - C. Dale Young "The Vista"
Who have ravish'd beauty's secret ways - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
A beautiful troubling through the branches - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
And fall down in a beautiful tantrum - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
All the beauty and sorrow of my life - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"
The whales sing their beautiful warnings - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"
Must not always beautify wreckage - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
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Beauteous streams flow through the dark of night - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
To hide in the form of something beautiful - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
As if the stone were glass fired and into beauty blown - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Hypnotized by the beauty of this strange new view - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Bright beauty of the risen dust - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
Deep flood-mark of beauty - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
Forgetting all save beauty - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"
The terrible extended beauty of the wordless - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
Not trusting the beautiful void to seek him out - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Too much beauty inhaled at once - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"
Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Surrounded with perfume and beauty untold - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Whose fruitage beautiful allures each sense - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VII--Midsummer"
Yoked to this body by beauty - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Hanging as eternal beauty - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
Beautiful but not serious - Rae Armantrout "Guess"
The ancient beauty of the commonplace - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
What a grand and beautiful force - Atticus "Magic in Love"
No toast to beauty shall my lips repeat - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Beauty protecting against summer scorch - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
The most beautiful seldom I ever saw - Mary Jo Bang "You Were You Are Elegy"
To feel the stab of beauty at the heart - Natalie Clifford Barney "Ah! Night!"
Spinning on beauty and hope - Lou Barrett "Double Portrait with Wineglass"
Bear the beauty of that much burning - Ellen Bass "This Was the Door"
Beauty of brass, beauty of fire - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
Beautiful monstrous dreams - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Where the wood drake rests in his beauty - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Physics to contain beauty in a box - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Torn fire glares on beauty - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
Beauty with a rusted mouth - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
An empress, in her blazonry of beauty - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Things beautiful and slow - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
To capture Beauty's hands - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
Trying to squeeze beauty into admonishment - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
Beauty's comfort-laden breath - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 12"
Beauty can kill more beautiful things - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Beauty can kill more beautiful things - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Their strange beauty my secret - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"
Most absolute in beauty - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Your gentle soul a well of beauty - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Given a prey for burning beauty to devour - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
And summon Beauty from her grave - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The beauty of the sinews of these States - Witter Bynner "This Man"
Shall become the beauty of the sinews of the world - Witter Bynner "This Man"
The kind of beauty steel lines ought to lack - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"
They tear from you your beauty - Witter Bynner "Undressing You"
For how our scourge was beauty - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Turned again to beauty - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"
The roads that run through Beauty's realm - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
So casual in their beauty - Tina Chang "Astroturf"
A word that replaces beauty with doom - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"
I came so far for beauty - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"
The beauty of our weapons - Leonard Cohen "First We Take Manhattan"
All your songs of beauty fail - Leonard Cohen "Nightingale"
Begging in beauty's disguise - Leonard Cohen "A Singer Must Die"
Where Beauty sits to tyrannize - Hartley Coleridge "To a Lofty Beauty, from Her Poor Kinsman"
Baptized in the beauty of pure elements - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
Maddened with light from Beauty's sun - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Keep the rites of Beauty lost - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
A silver boat on the beautiful river - "The Cradle of Gold" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Beauty in a barefoot mood - Nathalia Crane "Old Maid's Reverie"
Keep your distant beauty - Stephen Crane "Untitled"
darkness and beauty of stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
Not all the Troys of Helen's beauty - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Where Beauty met me in a thousand moods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Though beauty is slain when I perish - H.D. "Fragment Sixty-eight"
The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
The secrets of my calming beauty - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Dreamings we brought and beauty - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
The distance between density & beauty - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Whose beauty dims my waking eyes - Walter de la Mare "Music"
Queen of beauty and of grace and precious worth - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
That Beauty, the stranger, and I had met - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
The opening beauties of thy face - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "To My Granddaughter"
On the beautiful bleak enamel paint job - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"
I will exhale beauty - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Joy and a kind of cold beauty - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
Everywhere the breath of Beauty blows - A.E. "The Great Breath"
That blurs your eyes with beauty - Katherine Edgren "The Swan"
To lose beauty in terror - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Give him beauty for rags - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Beauty through my senses stole - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"
All seeds of beauty to be born - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
A beautiful web of silver light - Eugene Field "Heigho, My Dearie"
That Beauty lives though lilies die - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Beauty's cruel syntax - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"
That beauty's self rose visible in the world - John Freeman "The Body"
Beauty pour upon the strangeness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
All laden with cargoes of beautiful dreams - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
Your beauty a vault - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Women in the Sciences: Hedy Lamarr Told to "Stop Silly Inventing""
That beauty's power which first destroy'd - Thomas Gent "Sonnet. On Seeing a Young Lady, I Had Previously Known, Confined in a Madhouse"
Dream that the dream of life is beautiful - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
In new ecstasy of branching beauty - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Beautiful birds nest inside your mind - Nikita Gill "The Forest"
Imagining beauty in a stranger's eyes - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Though your beauty were a net of unimagined power - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Transformed the night into a beautiful mosaic - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
The slayer of that demon-beauty - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Serpent's Crown"
Of Beauty long denied - Ivor Gurney "After Music"
Any beauty eyes might find - Ivor Gurney "Interval"
Might have seen beauty clear - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"
In winds of Beauty swinging - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
With a proud defiant beauty - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
A soul defiant with beauty - Nathalie Handal "The City Is Mine, Jay-Z"
Beautiful beyond dolphin dreaming - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Impenetrable as its own beauty - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
On one sore knee before beauty - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Trumpeting men through beauty - F.W. Harvey "The Bugler"
The stainless beauty of her name - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Give back in beauty the dread and the anguish - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
That my eyes may see the fearful beauty - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Was shame in you born before beauty? - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Since beauty and the stars were one - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
When beauty's trace is worn away - George Moses Horton "Memory"
See beauty through the tears - Walter E. Houghton, Jr. "Love Song"
Who carry beauties in their hearts - Langston Hughes "Water-Front Streets"
Blessed beauty from mischance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
The beautiful berry leaves a dark stain on the tongue - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
Still singing his beautiful warning - Didi Jackson "Bobolink"
The ironbark eucalyptus dwells in ignorance and beauty - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Beauty springing from the sod - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Cursed her bright beauty - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Where anger turns into beauty - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
The singed fume of things beautiful, noble, and wrong - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
Your most beautiful regret - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A power more strong in beauty - John Keats "Hyperion"
A thousand germs of light and beauty - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Remembers its former beauty - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"
And beauty was not the obvious choice - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"
You had to choose between smart and beautiful - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"
Hide beauty under beauty still - Lucy Larcom "November"
A beautiful anxious speck of a star - Stephen Leggett "For a Little Wheel"
Nevertheless persists in beauty - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
And open the beautiful gate - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
Seed of beauty in a ground of truth - Amy Lowell "The Promise of the Morning Star"
And drank its beauty of red and blue - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
For beauty has butterfly wings - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"
Her troubling beauty's power - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
Respecting beauty's prerogatives - Anthony Madrid "Siebenundvierzig"
Clothes them with thunders and beauty - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
Beauty emerge from debris in a flight of butterflies - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Beauty on the darkness hurled - John Masefield "Invocation"
Beauty chased by tragic laughter - John Masefield "King Cole"
In the rooms of a beautiful inn - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
Beauty in hardest action - John Masefield "Ships"
Robed in all her beauty sere - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"
Beauty that doesn't suffer rules - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Shall take Beauty in her citadel - Theodore Maynard "Beauty II: Absolute"
Mistaking loneliness for beauty - Shara McCallum "My Mother as Narcissus"
Went down in beauty - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"
Brute beautiful fact - Maureen N. McLane "As I was saying, the sun"
The massive beauty of your stacked skyline - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Seduced by the second beautiful harvest - Dante Micheaux "The Second Beautiful Harvest"
They dropped in beauty from the pitying sky - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
The torqued and rippling surface and the beautiful ravenous fish - Joseph Millar "Job"
And the breath gone out of beauty - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: IV"
Has looked on Beauty bare - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Beautiful in the whispers of the wind - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
Who comes in beautiful decay - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Some sliver of disheveled beauty - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Cataracts"
Wild beauty extracted from black ashes - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
No beautiful element of unreason - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"
With a throng of beauty, dreams and loves - William Moore "Expectancy"
Arrived at bloom of beauty - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)
Taught me beauty's lessons - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Like an eclipse of beauty - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin
A terrible fruit of electric beauty - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Atom" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
The beauty of clashing troubadours - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
The beauty of weeping minstrels - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
Hard to regret beauty and easy to lie - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
With the beauty born of desolation - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"
In beauty reached the divine - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Those curious beautiful tinted maps - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Dearer than Helen's beauty - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Whose beauty is my sorrow - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"
Ride the beautiful long spine of grammar - Mary Oliver "Gratitude"
Beauty can both shout and whisper - Mary Oliver "Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way"
Of the inexplicable beauty of heaven - Mary Oliver "Red Bird Explains Himself"
Instantly beautiful to the bees - Mary Oliver "Writing Poems"
The beauty of what's missing - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Brought crimson October's beautiful decay - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Beauty smiled in the arms of Terror - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Shattered beauty hung - Dorothy Parker "Solace"
The bright arrows of beauty - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
The beautiful colors of extinction - Carl Phillips "Regime"
Beauty that attends oblivion - Carl Phillips "Tell Me a Story"
Beauty too bright for camouflage - Joy Priest "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"
The silent beauty of the noon - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Nothing beautiful belongs to us - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"
Of beauty without blame - Theodore H. Rand "The Rose"
In speech of beauty's lore - Theodore H. Rand "To W."
The beauty of the simulacrum - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Where beauty names itself - Adrienne Rich "Grating"
Dared mix beauty with courage - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Sweet thoughts and beautiful - John Rollin Ridge "Random Thoughts of Her"
Beautiful as gulls upon the water - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Turning harsh things to beauty - Lola Ridge "Mother"
so much lost you'd think beauty had left a lesson - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
The weeds now have their hour of beauty - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Good Old Days"
Refuse to abandon their beauty - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Restful beauty on the restless tide - Alice Wellington Rollins "Serenity"
Beauty deck the Spring in flowers - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Instead of having to be beautiful tomorrow - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"
Fleeting shadows of beautiful days - Thomas Runciman "Songs V"
Noiseless revels and the will of beauty go - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
Mount the spirit spires of beauty - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
Fond idolator at every shrine where beauty lingers - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Twin saints, unified in their beauty - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
Mother of beauty, mother of joy - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
A wound in beauty's side - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)
Beauty blooms on every threshold - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
New notes of ghostly beauty - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
The beauty of a mass of chrysanthemums - Diane Seuss "[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]"
Beauty's rose might never die - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Proving his beauty by succession - William Shakespeare "Sonnet II"
The parallels in beauty's brow - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"
Making beautiful old time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"
Whose beauties proudly make them cruel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXI"
Saw beauty in a scrap of its light - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"
Who kissed the veil from Beauty's face - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Flit jewel bright and beautiful - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
Listening to the curious beauty of the sound of a million voices - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Beauty that tarries not, nor satisfies - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"
More beautiful than starlit moonstone - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
In those beautiful, too-brief moments - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Beauty as an agent to oblivion - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
Fairy gleams in rainbow beauty shine - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
In clouds of scintillating beauty - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"
Accost the air with a sentient beauty - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
Twisting a thousand beauties - George Soule "Winter's Pride"
Refracts discreet components of a beauty - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
Of all the beautiful demons - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Estelle"
Beauty for a moth's desire - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"
Whoso drinks her beauty's golden wine - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
On custom's rust and Beauty's dust - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
Death is the mother of beauty - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Till I am crushed with beauty - Marion Strobel "Spring Morning"
The staff of beauty and the clothes of pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 75: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To bloom into some unexpected beauty - Carmen Sylva "The Sentinel"
Will always bear the beauty of chance - Arthur Sze "Under a Rising Moon"
Beckoning ghosts of crime and dreams of maddening beauty - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Beautiful and splendid things - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
For beauty as a flame - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
For whom all beauty burns - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
For beauty more than bitterness - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Thrill'd and thrall'd by perfect beauty's sight - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XII"
Shot through with beauty and with tears - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
May still be won in beauty's bowers - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"
Some fancied beauty to adorn - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
Even truth and beauty vanished - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Yield the keys of Beauty's gates - Iris Tree "[Blow upon blow they bruise the daylight wan]"
And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Light and its beautiful doom - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Their first fealty sworn to beauty - Richard Chenevix Trench "On an Early Death"
To steep in hues of beauty - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
The rough edge of beauty - Natasha Trethewey "Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971"
Beauty a hackney cab of commerce - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"
The draught that Beauty brews - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"
Beauty folded in the flowers and leaves - Jehangir Jivaji Vakil "Revelation"
And restore the beautiful hopes of youth - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"
Sheen that bleeds blue beauty - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"
Dim earth's beauty with stain and spot - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Have rehearsed their beauty - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
Beauty through dusty glass - Derek Walcott "The Villa Restaurant"
Exerting Beauty's easy privilege - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
Behold the beauty of fairer skies - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"
By beauty stabbed to death - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Afraid of beauty's dreadful secret - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The hour that beauty brings - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"
Terrible in beauty, age, and power - Walt Whitman "As I Ponder'd in Silence"
Comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]
Beautifully and completely rotten - William Carlos Williams "Perfection"
More beautiful than true - Katie Willingham "Notes on Relief"
A part of greater beauties than inform your heart - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"
Beautiful unsupported lies that simulate a universe - Humbert Wolfe "The Skies"
Slipping in between the beauty coming and the beauty gone - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Beauty’s ignorant ear - W.B. Yeats "The Scholars"
After earnest but beautiful failures - C. Dale Young "The Vista"
Who have ravish'd beauty's secret ways - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
A beautiful troubling through the branches - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
And fall down in a beautiful tantrum - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
All the beauty and sorrow of my life - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"
The whales sing their beautiful warnings - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"
Must not always beautify wreckage - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
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