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

Notes and aspirations bold - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Each fond aspiration in secret milled - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]

Some starlike aspiration to attain - Effie Smith "The Recompense"

The aspirations of a minute - Arthur Sze "The Far Norway Pines"

Beat their wings of aspiration - Louise Imogen Guiney "Brook Farm"

No more time for commonplace aspirations - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

Cry to aspirations that would die - Edwin Markham "Music"

Aspirations too vast to be held in the hand - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

The aspirations of youth burn down to char - Charles Wright "Grace II"


Must not aspire to bliss - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

The things are broken to which I aspired - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

The way anything buried aspires - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"

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

Since aspiring to a life more high - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook

Through which aspires the blood-metal of stars - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"

On cherub wing aspire - Felicia Hemans "Christmas Carol"

Aspire to become the hypotenuse - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

As well might I aspire to build a star - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The zone to which the stars aspire - Sir Nizamat Jung "III: Before the Throne"

Aspire unto its valiant company - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Who boldly did aspire to steal the sun's etherial fire - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Aspiring like steeples - John Updike "Endpoint"


A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"


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