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are wise with too much seen - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Make my approaches wisely - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Be wise and tranquil still - Charles Baudelaire "Contemplation" transl. not credited

Less wise than true - Anne Bradstreet "The Author to Her Book"

Only the dead were wise - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"

And invite wise minds to judge - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIV. Second Reading. To Vittoria Colonna. The Model and the Statue" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The wise fervour of a blameless mind - Tommaso Campanella "XXIII. The Modern Cupid" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Wisest legend from the storied wells - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

In the reckonings of the wise - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

And join the wiser idlers there - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

This voice of mine in wondrous wise - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Every drop is as wise as Solomon - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

Silence and wise mystery - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

The fruit that makes men wise - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

On my brow be the crown of the wise - A.E. "Love"

Wiser for the spiny-edge - Carolina Ebeid "Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts"

Your gold makes you seem wise - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

With a wise old weasel, a rat and a frog - Rose Fyleman "The Grouse"

Come wiser than the past - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"

Though seldom you failed to be wise - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"

Gathered ghosts, wise and foolish - "The Graveyard" transl. by Burton Watson

To ache and be wise for it - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"

Learnt the art of looking wise - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "His Father"

Were made wise beneath the twisted thorn - F.W. Harvey "'Local Fatalities Are Reported'"

Too wise with seeing to believe - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."

With wisdom's wiser heart - Charles Bertram Johnson "Now and Then"

To task the wise serenity of Socrates - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"

Wise in his own conceit - Joyce Kilmer "The Morning Meditations of Frere Hyacinthus"

Wiser than the oldest language - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"

Could change a tree into a wise man - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

When wise Minerva still was young - James Russell Lowell "The Origin of Didactic Poetry"

To all the wise a blessing - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"

On ears that had wiser employ to seek - George Martin "The Woodland Walk"

Sorceries wherein men's souls grow wise - Theodore Maynard "Pride"

The struggle to be wise - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

A heart beloved of the wiser gods - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"

Of blood, of mud, of wise men - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Confessional"

Gentlest of the wise - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

Gotham's three wise men we be - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"

The gestures of your warm wise hands - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Eyes dazzled see less wisely - Alice Wellington Rollins "Thought"

Wisely one sweet instrument to choose - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Wiser from traveling both roads - Gary Soto "The Road Not Taken... in Peru"

Wise words suppress the need of swords - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

The wise man builds his house nowhere - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

Far too wild and wise - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"

Wise by whole epochs of evolution - Michael Van Walleghen "Happiness"

For they wanted to grow up wise - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"

This world of wise choices - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"

Jocular in no wise - William Carlos Williams "Hic Jacet"

Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"

Who made you bitter made you wise - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"


That nowise touched the trouble of the hour - Emma Lazarus "Saint Romualdo" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]


The moments of my unwiseness - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"

Yet this heart unwise - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"

Unwise and curiously planned - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"


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