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Sad and sober to the eye - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."

Hold the earth in sober wit - Lee Fairchild "Couplets"

Open to them all with a sober face - Zona Gale "Enchantment"

That puts all sober thoughts to flight - Mona Gould "Sorcery"

The way a sober shadow might - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"

Sober walls of weathered stone - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

The rain begins its sober comedy - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

With universal tinge of sober gold - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

But was I sober when I swore? - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

From sober black to faintest blue - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

And never again be sober - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

When I grow sober after all this wine - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Even as the sober crow goes - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"

Time's sober reckoning - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

Prefer a sober hallucination - jessica Care moore "She Was"

The owl's child saw her going, and blinked a sober eye - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

But was I sober when I swore? - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Sober bulk and adamantine hold - Duncan Campbell Scott "Home Song"

When Morning dons her sober gray - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Sober gray to usher in the coming day - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Every sober clam below her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Matured into a sober pleasure - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Not by a long shot sober - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"


The sobriety of a machine - Jordi Doce "Guest"

From the paths of strictest sobriety - Henry S. Leigh "An Unappreciated Crichton"


To teach our sober-footed hours to fly - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]


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