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Wrapt among the balms and hieroglyphs - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

And balm in pleasure found - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"

All your stores of softening balm - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]

And the balm of rain - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"

Balm of soft oblivion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 11"

Balm to all my frenzied pain - Emily Bronte "Hope"

Balm for every wounded heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XI"

With balm and honey to restore - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Anodyne of balm and fir and myrtle-trees - H.D. "Projector"

Give balm to giants - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IX: The Test"

As balm unto the eyes - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Eternal Years"

The wound forever seeking balm - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"

Balm fresh flung from the hand of God - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

Supplies my eyes with balm - Hafiz "The Divan V" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Can offer balm to all - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLI"

Sleep, the balm of sorrow - F.W. Harvey "The Sleepers"

The tears of heaven descend in balm - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

The balm of distance recedes before your steps - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Balm in the sunlight and moonlight - William D. Howells "A Springtime"

Turns in balm on the immortal side - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]

Distiller of the balm of rest - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"

From wounds and balms, from storms and calms - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

Bringing balm for Summer's tears - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]

Soon the time will come of cast-iron and balm - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Like shredded balm and myrrh - John Masefield "Vision"

The balm of the dews descending - Louis J. McQuilland "A Song of the Open Road"

Hymned by every balmy wind - Lewis Morris "Suffrages"

To sleep with rest and spice and balm - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Breathe the balm of Nature's stillness - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

Redolent with balm of myrtle, orange, and the rose - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Heavy with the balm of night - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]

Binding up wounds, but pouring in no balm - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

From thy dainty chalice steals the balm - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And pours balm on the cleft earth - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"

Steep my senses in oblivion's balm - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

Peace with balmy wings - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"


My balm-charmed breath to stoke the blaze - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"


Poured with tender love her healing Lethe-balm - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]


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