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The poisoned roots of pride - A.L.O.E. "Gardener's Hymn"

In its pride outlines the landscape - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

Useless as wounded pride - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

On what rock stands this pride - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

and impel his pride in shaping - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Canker'd by the worm of pride - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Conquered heaven in spirals of pride - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

The stubborn sergeant men call Pride - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Pride and avarice throng the day - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

A dream of scornful pride - Teresa Brayton "A Christmas Song"

In drunken pride of youth - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"

The ruffling pride of fierce desires - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Strewn with wrecks of baffled pride - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

As if the fox felt pride - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"

Breathing flame of pride and power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

The madness of each one to pride - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Pride juggles with her toppling towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Nothing left but state and pride - Lady Mary Chudleigh "To the Ladies"

Stand in high aspiring pride - Arthur Hugh Clough "High and Low"

In tinsel trappings of poetic pride - George Crabbe "The Village"

Plucks the scrap from pride - George Crabbe "The Village"

They wrap their wounds in pride - Countee Cullen "Black Magdalens"

pride keeps you from the pawn shop - E. E. Cummings "La Guerre"

Fall in a pride of petaled hours - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

Has nought can match or mar her pride - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

In vain the struggles of his pride - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Chart the distance from my pride - Meg Day "Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God"

Lifts up my heart above all thought of pride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The pride of custom and the gossip of the street - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Bring back the tulip's pride - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Dressed fancy in ivy and pride - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

In his pride smiled a defiance - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

The summit of their pride - Louis Golding "Liza"

It's pride that makes the heart so great - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

His pride twenty thousand years mute - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

And thousands of voices will sing in pride - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Cover him over with violets of pride - Ivor Gurney "To His Love"

On the road of chivalry and pride - Ivor Gurney "The Tower"

Rome with all her pride and power - Frances E.W. Harper "The Hermit's Sacrifice"

From all but prideful anger - Robert Hayden "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz"

In victory's hour of pride - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Jealous pride and restless vigilance - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

The pride I trampled is now my scathe - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

To keep your head and save my Pride - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

Over the peaks of pride - Leslie Pinckney Hill "A Far Country"

Pride cannot see itself - Barten Holyday "Distiches"

Robed in her pride she comes - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Spendthrifts of pride and grace - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"

Night robs me of all pride - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

Wafts perfume to pride - Sir William Jones "An Ode: in Imitation of Alcaeus"

Nature's pride is now a withered daffodil - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

The forest-monarch's pride - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The pride of envious yaks - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

With all an elder sister's pride - John Keble "Fire"

Our ports of stranded pride - Rudyard Kipling "Sussex"

Build to the purple of Pride - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Based on the mystery of pride - D.H. Lawrence "The American Eagle"

The fathomless in bright pride - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

Wounded pride first taught her how to hate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Permanent as my errors or my pride - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"

Scarved with red symbols of pride - Don Marquis "Early Autumn"

The dreadful falcon's pride - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

From pride's tall roaring pyre in hell - Theodore Maynard "Pride"

For a tyrant's flattered pride - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The castles that were once your pride - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Carved from stone of pride - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid

In a single wave of pride and knives - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell

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

Pride ruled my will - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"

Be not in pride offended - "Old May Song"

Beyond the pride of any earthly queen - John Oxenham "Seeds"

Pride is merely for an hour - Walter S. Percy "The Glory Dwells"

The pale full moon, in silent pride - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"

Sorrow, veiled in scornful pride - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Never Again"

Above the pillar of Napoleon's pride - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

By the strong pride of an unfeeling will - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The pride of architects collapsing - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Unyielding in the pride of his defiance - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"

Meriting pride's implacable irony - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

Home to your place of power and pride - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

All the crimson wrecks of pride - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

So barren of new pride - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"

Inaccessible to avarice or pride - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Rivals the pride of summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Throw in the backseat of my pride - Terisa Siagatonu "Deserving"

Soaked with jealousy, vanity, pride - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"

And pride of guarding flame - George Sterling "Caeli Enarrant"

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

Seething always with passion and pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Pale with the promise of pride - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

Splendid summer and perfume and pride - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Only my own spirit's pride - Sara Teasdale "Alone"

In her fairy-queen pride - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

Throw my gauntlet at the feet of pride - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"

Armed Orion's belted pride - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

The hemlock-bowl for Athen's pride - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

Our wings of pride were broken - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"

For pride of spendthrift youth - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

The burrowing pride that rises - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"

The unhallowed shrine of pomp and pride - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


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