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The one that shines for lunatics, lovers, and poets - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"

Now shining in bright sun - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

The shining flood of light I pour - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"

A shining figure cut from a summer sky - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

The moving lights of trouble shine - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke

That shines with treasures manifold - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

A morning where darkness shines - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"

Where Fame's proud temple shines - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

A thousand years have seen it shine - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Our shapely hooks of shining gold - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

Two more days for your sun to shine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"

What an arsenal of shining tools - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"

Your shine enlightens but yourself - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Their shining garments fade - Anna Hempstead Branch "While Loveliness Goes By"

The torches of memory shine - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

Still make the golden crocus shine - Anne Bronte "Memory"

Revealing the shining mark - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"

In a ship of shining shell - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In a Dream-Ship"

Heaven's own shining floor - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

His splendour shines too strong - Michelangelo Buonarroti "II. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Shining rivers with their brimming floors - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Shot all his shining fingers through the Dark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Showers red rain on the shining way - Edward Carpenter "In a Canoe"

Though the sun shines not - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"

What gladness shines upon them - Willa Cather "Recognition"

Resplendent shines your crystal heart - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"

Radiant and shining in endless glory - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Lord Among the Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson

Light shall be dark and darkness shine - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"

Small to shine so - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"

And no sun shining - Hilda Conkling "Humming-Bird"

The shining champions each did ride - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

the passing of all shining things - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

Shining clusters round the silent dead - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Which shines a meteor through life's gloom - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

That has a ten-mile voice and shines as far - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"

Here shine the valiant Nunio's deeds unfeign'd - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

The shining footsteps of the moon - Walter de la Mare "Nocturne"

The break of day that wears a shining dew decked diadem - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

Rider of the shining sword - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Shining eyes who dazzled twice - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"

Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

And shine with a thousand changing dyes - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Kissed the shining feet of Twilight - Helen Dudley "To One Unknown"

The shining legionaries of the suns - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Two seeming candles shine - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"

Shining abode of the twisted horns - "Erard Mac Coisse on the Death of King Malachy II" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Put forth thy shining sickle - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

Our star to shine on the ruins of Rum - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

Light of love and mercy shine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

That shines like twisted sunlight - "Frangipanni"

Up to their shining eyes in snow - Robert Frost "Good Hours"

Goblin with the shining eyes - Rose Fyleman "The Fairy Queen to the Goblin"

The star that shines in the midnight sky - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Forget the shining of the stars - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"

The darkness behind your shining star - Nikita Gill "Hades to Persephone"

Purge tomorrow of its shine - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"

Weaving violet shadows on their shining surface - Mona Gould "Tasting the Earth"

The sphered stars powdered in shining atoms - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Cherries shine with crimson fire - Han-Shan "[The birds and their chatter]" transl. by Burton Watson

Left the shining shrines unsought - Thomas Hardy "After Reading Psalms XXXIX., XL., etc."

A shining piece of invisible memory - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"

The wreaths of glory shine - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Tints of transparent lustre shine - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Goes hungrily from dream to shining dream - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"

Through storm, and shade, and shine - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"

That shines unleafed in winter rain - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Winners yet in its tender shine - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

My shining mirror darkens with neglect - Hsu Kan "The Wife's Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Shine as a guarantor for my hopes - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Could not choose but shine - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

If grief is a shining fruit - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

Shine into the brilliance of an overly lit sky - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

Sad disciple of a shining band now gone - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"

Pulled over my scorched yet ever shining heart - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Like speckled snake that strays and shines - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"

After feasting by shining candles - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The star-pricked West shines hollow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XI: A Wave"

In tight cravat and shiny tile - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"

From a dark dungeon see the clear stars shining - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

The universe whose scales shine brilliantly - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

In channelled glory leap and shine - Vachel Lindsay "The Dream of All the Springfield Writers"

And the shining host of stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

Bound with twelve shining clasps - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

A cloth of shining silver spun - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

Starry lands where mystic roses shine - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"

How bright my headlights shine - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

The dawn moon struggles to shine - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson

The edge of shade and shine - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Yet outshine the time - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Where wheeling fires shine - Helen M. Merrill "The Blue Flower"

That cannot shine alone - Buonarroti Michelangelo "Love the Light-Giver" (translated by John Addington Symonds)

Suns that shine by night - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

Shines on us like altar fires - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"

Shine in beaten gold and glory - N. Scott Momaday "Death Comes for Beowulf"

A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

Let me love that shine in you - Eileen Myles "for you"

Shine as your beloved crown - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Night shining in grapes - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Goddess of the shining shrine - E. Nesbit "The Least Possible"

The shining governments of the damned - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

And the shine isn't just pennies - Mary Oliver "Maples"

In such shining obedience - Mary Oliver "Someday"

Some shining coil of wind - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?"

Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

That shines the space of an hour - Ou-yang Hsiu "Calligraphy Practice" transl. by Burton Watson

Glory shining through the cleft - John Oxenham "E.A., Nov. 6, 1900"

The only sun shining today - Julie Paschkis "Crow/El Cuervo"

Crystal cliffs in shining row - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Morphed into something shiny and new - Andre F. Peltier "Gazing Waterward"

Shining in our net of nerves - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

Follow me through storm or shine - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

Strange designs that shine and recede again - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Elves on the shining sand - Josephine Pollard "The Dance on the Beach"

Teardrops of rosin harden and shine - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

A fragment of the spectrum of Bahamut's shining scales - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

And mark it with their shining foot-prints - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

Before they made the red carpet shine - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Light that was its shining currency - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

Leaving the eye uncertain of their shining - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Those shining galleys of the stars - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Till they shine like phosphorus - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Hold no shining thing to juggle - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"

To betray itself by shining - Alice Wellington Rollins "Expression"

Shining, trackless fields of air - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Will Find Out a Way"

While shining so brilliant on high - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"

Where pure seraphs shine - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"

These stars will never shine so bright - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"

Above life's troubled currents shine - Frederick George Scott "To My Wife"

The caribou shadow the shining plain - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Too hot the eye of heaven shines - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

a shiny silver moon-coin to play - Evie Shockley "black love"

Where was darkness shines a moon - "Silly Sweetheart"

the earth shines black in the sirens - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

For the light that shines there, waiting - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

No shining words of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"

Fairy gleams in rainbow beauty shine - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"

Could shine above hurting - Patricia Smith "Listening at the Door"

Into ten thousand shining particles - Elizabeth Spires "Cote d'Azur"

Shining out along the zodiac - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

In shining courts of wonder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"

Set shining foot on temple roof - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"

Lotus shining pink on the water - Su Tung-p'o "[Mountains shine through forest breaks]" transl. by Burton Watson

Gleams of shining wonder dazzle through the void - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Not much for shining - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Correction"

A crown of shining endurance - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

Send down their shining colors - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson

A wind of shining ebony in Time's bright glass - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"

In your shining and terrible garment - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"

In shining pools of white and gold - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"

By the breadth of the blue that shines in silence - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"

Shine through all the sphere - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"

Shining nowhere but in the dark - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"

Speckled snake that strays and shines - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

And you will shine bright as a winter star - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"

The sun spreads out his shining wires - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Causing the sun to shine in his sphere - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Silken mists above shining trees - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"

Shine alone in the sunrise - William Carlos Williams "El Hombre"

Waxy orbs bereft of shine - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"

To the place where nothing shines - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"

Trees whose blossoms shine no less - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"


The light as it first shone on Adam - Julia Alvarez "Addison's Vision"

Jealous of the way she shone - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The earth bled till the moon shone red - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"

Shone with metallic lustre, sombre fire - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

In chaos of vacancy shone - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"

His ax shone keen and grey - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

Brighter than Solomon shone of old - William Hodgson Ellis "The Cowdung Fly"

That shone thickening on flowers - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"

A myriad suns have set and shone - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

That shone at the dawn of spring - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"

The shadows shone with eyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Where the windows shone across the darkness - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"

Shone as poppies in the wheat - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"

Shone more glorious than Solomon - Theodore Maynard "To My Wife"

Whose armour shone like gold - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"

Our fingertips shone orange from grasping - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hypothetical Moons"

In whose hand the first fire shone - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

Shone from the liquid moon - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

Stole his eyes because they shone - Leonora Speyer "Kleptomaniac"

A lamp that shone on nothing - Frank Stanford "Embark"

Six years the moon shone at mid-autumn - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

At every seam red gold shone through - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier


Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"


Moonshine.


Of deeds out-shining stars - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

Outshone flaming Mars - Theodore H. Rand "Banishment"

Outshines the noise of leaves clashing - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"


Starshine.


Filled with wide-shining wonder - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"


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