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Nostalgic for noble causes - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Abandoning the noble cause - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Our noblest aspirations for the time - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Too petty for such noble warning - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"

The tribute of a nobler coin - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

From rebel soil a noble flower - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall

Shall exist in nobler spheres - John Castillo "To a Withered Flower!"

Shares a nobler discontent - Susan Coolidge "Ebb-Tide"

To win the nobler song - Susan Coolidge "Prelude"

Forms the soil for noble deeds - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Meadow Lands"

Raise your head among the noble powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 35. E-Duba, the Temple of Zababa in Kish" transl. by Sophus Helle

All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

The pillar guarding noble dust - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Its noblest forms and boldest flights - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

The noble civil war of sleep - Fady Joudah "Libra"

A noble company of celestial race - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Sixth: Uma's Espousals" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The singed fume of things beautiful, noble, and wrong - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

Feel the Seeker's noble zest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"

Faith to the noble spirit of Space - William Moore "Dusk Song"

With a helmet of noble fire - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Worthily to clothe some noble thought - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

With a nobler price than gold - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Will"

A hermit crab seeing nobler shells - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"

The noble skies and the inviolate stars - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"

Each noble path pursue - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"

Dragons and the noble songs of sirens - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

In noble rage replied - W.B. Yeats "Young Man’s Song"


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