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Bears upon its rapid wing - A.L.O.E. "Never Forsaken"

I would rather bear fruit than fire - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

Would agree to bear the margin's tedium - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

Solemnly bearing my dead loves away - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

Go hence bearing a talisman - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

And the sea bears the reflection of the worlds - Lennox Amott "My Beauty's Home"

And no sleep renew his strength to bear it - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring

In the tavern bear the golden cup - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LIII: Mine Everywhere" transl. by Sir John Bowring

And the way back won't bear scrutiny - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"

To bear the red rose company - Anonymous ballad "Babylon"

Bear not one gem of all her store - George A. Baker "A Rosebud in Lent"

Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

All that bears the signature of ease - Maurice Baring "Mozart"

Bear the beauty of that much burning - Ellen Bass "This Was the Door"

That bears the sacred shield of Truth - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

How you bear this flourish - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"

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

Bearing her peace like a cup of blessed wine - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"

Bear the strife of little tongues and coward insults - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Bears the fruit of Deceit - William Blake "The Human Abstract"

Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Bearing the scent of their dying - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"

If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

And bear this fragile moment past - Gerald Bullett "Home"

Bearing fixed war through shifting victories - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Bearing alone the load of liberty - Tommaso Campanella "XXIX. To Venice" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The venomed dart shall bear its sure and speedy remedy - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Judge the tree by what it bears - Alice Cary "My Creed"

Their faith to bear it - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"

Bearing the burden of damage - Tina Chang "Lion"

Could bear no voice, no face - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

The boar bears your final card - May Chong "Catering"

Bearing both weapon and wound - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)

Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

Bear a load of snow upon their backs - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

And bear your parts in the battle - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

Strong to bear times' wintry weather - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

And bear me out of the dark - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"

Brooding on the doom I bear - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Might bear you a gorgeous flower - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

A word which bears a sword - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love X: Forgotten"

Bearing thither a world of dreams - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"

Bearing indispensable news - Stephen Dunn "The Telling of Grandmother's Secret"

Whose shields bear bags of argent on a field of gold - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Bearing a dark star inside me - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"

Bearing fish and paper messages - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Keep vigils long as flesh can bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

But they the sharpest thorns who bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Never to forget my lost bearings - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Bear them inch by inch toward death - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"

One leaf left to bear witness - George Garrett "Or Death and December"

Bear it with thee as a spell - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"

Meekly bear the stones of fate - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"

Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

To bear creation's holy vesper prayer - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Alpine Horn"

A soldier bearing alien arms - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"

By bearing down the western road - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"

Stones bearing libraries of the winds - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"

Whirlwinds bear the dust of the plains - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Grey pillars bear the stooping sky - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"

How bears the walnut tree - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"

this earth can bear almonds - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"

The heavy part the music bears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"

Bearing the burden of a shepherd song - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Who bear aloft the overflowing cup - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"

Whose cheek bears pleasure's sleepless flush - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

One stalk of corn can't bear fruit - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

And bear no bloom for bees - Archibald Lampman "In October"

A load sharper to bear - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"

Such apples as these gardens bear - Andrew Lang "Lost in Hades"

Straggling orchard that bears no fruits - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Bears a melody laden with spells - Henry S. Leigh "Bow Bells"

Wind bearing the voices of the world - Philip Levine "Waking in March"

Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

All this skin that will never bear fruit - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Bear zones of tropic passion - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Bears his part in that conflict dire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

bear up beneath the change - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

The wind's caress bears you along - Dorothea Mackellar "Seagull"

Martyrdom beyond his strength to bear - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Bears the seed of future years - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Bearing Lucifer's oriflamme - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"

Red is the strangest pain to bear - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"

Bearing burdens not our own - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"

Bearing torches, chanting vengeance - Claire Millikin "Prizewinners of the Apocalypse"

Who best bear his mild yoke - John Milton "Service"

Bears witness to the veiled truth of myth - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"

Bearing you across a ridge of dreams - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"

Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

To bear the hardness coming - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"

That the sea bears in its hands - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Solitude bears no flowers - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Bear all things evidence - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson

My compass taps out of bearing in circles - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"

Easier to bear than sorrow - Carl Phillips "Electric"

Bear the symbol of his doom - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"

The closest and carefullest scrutiny bears - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Bearing strange symbols to the new dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

Which gold and stone and spices bear - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Test what singleness can bear - Kay Ryan "That Will to Divest"

Broken snail shells bearing emptiness on their back - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Michael Roloff

What blooms bears thorns - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Protocol"

Bearing fire & sharp obsidian - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

For invention bear amiss - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIX"

Myself will bear all wrong - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"

The waves of Time may bear us - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

Awake no winds but bear her dust - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"

Bear with them broken promises of Spring - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"

Cannot bear the song of the cuckoo - Sun Yun-feng "The Trail Up Wu Gorge" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Bear the barbs of ridicule - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 220: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Bears the sword of vengeance unrelenting - J. Sylvester "Mercy and Justice" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Will always bear the beauty of chance - Arthur Sze "Under a Rising Moon"

A sweet wind bears it company - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Boxes bearing the names of lost department stores - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

The owls were bearing the farm away - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Strike and bear the stroke - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"

The valor of who bears a sword - Luis Lloréns Torres "Bolivar" transl. by Muna Lee

Vermilion blossoms bear no fruit - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Trust these little waves to bear my message - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Where the history is harder to bear - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVIII"

Bearing the same spark - John Hall Wheelock "Plaint"

Bearing our lost through the starlight above - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Condemn'd a load of infamy to bear - "The Whore"

Harbouring ill under a blithe bearing - "Wife's Lament" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone

Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"

Bear the spring's reiterated urgencies - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"

Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"

Bear the last trickling tear-drop - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"

Bear eons of indifference - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Not the bearable light - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser"

Whose illusions were bearable - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"


Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Bearer of fire and space-invader - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Bearers of ghost that burns - John Masefield "King Cole"

Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"


Unbearable.


Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"


Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull


The meteor-bearer of our parting breath - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"


Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"


The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"


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