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earned through bitterness of need - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Have earned the sympathy of dirt - Max Bodenheim "Intimate Scene"

Earn your cup of reward - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson

All the earnings of their pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Ah! Yet Consider It Again!"

What wages they may earn - Arthur Colton "The Shepherd and the Knight"

Earned her bread with a patient heart - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Motherless Child"

But possible to earn - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life II: Superiority to Fate"

And earn at least some harvest that is bread - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Whose honor is earned backward - Heid E. Erdich "TV News: Detox Closed"

A rich reward still earning - Fritz "The Poet's Power" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.461, 30 Oct. 1852]

In just Proportion to the Sum you Earn - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Which earns but lessened gravity - Mary Karr "Lifecycle Stairmaster"

And by an easy slaughter earn the guerdon - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Laugh, because the pleasure was earned - Sandra Lim "A Walk Round the Park"

Earns his bread in strange new lands - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Every ache you've earned - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"

Love has to earn his bread - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"

An answer earned, inscribe in bubbles - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

The furrows earned rightfully by crones - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

Earn no more than posterity's jeers - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Redly earn'd the curse he won that night - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

Such bitter work could earn such miserable hunger - Wang An-Shih "A Country Walk" transl. by David Hinton


Never lament such hard-earned food - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton


And the cost of unearned bread - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"


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