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You're much too wise to be a martyr - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]

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

Five smooth stones to make him wise - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

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

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

Even the wisest may sometimes miscalculate - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

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

To win a wise and bloodless victory - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]

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

Those whose Actions are not Wise - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Insensate Mischief"

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"

That you are fair or wise is vain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

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"

Misfortunes serve to make us wise - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

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

You must be wise in the forest - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"

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'"

Then all the wise men of the past stood forth - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Early wise and brave in season - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIV"

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"

That am wise in disregard of the divine - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XII"

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"

More merry was than wise - "The Life and Death of Tom Careless"

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

And vanish'd from a wiser world - Charles Mackay "The Founding of the Bell"

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"

We dead ones wise too late harrow you with visions - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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"

Now wiser grown, I recognize each ass - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Sapphires blue and wise with farthest twilight - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Once my dreams were wise - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

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

Blended with the ore refined by the wise hand of Nature - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

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"

Who wisely retorted by running away - Sir Ronald Ross "The Troll and the Mountain: Dedicated to the Great"

Shadows of the wise departed - J.S. "Hymn of a Hermit" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

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 vigils of forgiving thought - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LI: The Soul of Age"

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"

Which separates the Wise from the Fools - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"

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

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

The wise man desires to be forgotten - "The Way of Virtue: Eternity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

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"


Allures me where alarms nowise may trouble us - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXII"

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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