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A veil that makes the night weep - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Its birthday had come with a black veil - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

Harvest your veiled smiles - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ode to Corn"

The lustrous silken veiled faces of the water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Wrought to veil you vanished grief - Auguste Angellier "Resignation" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Through veils of steam - Simon Armitage "Miniatures"

Only a thin veil hangs between - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"

Through the dusky-woven veil of time - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"

Through veils of ether opaline - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

The rosy veils of pure celestial air - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

A veil on red music - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 3. The Nerve Fibers"

Veil after unlifted veil - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"

Dons her star-encrusted veil - Cora C. Bass "Life's Temple"

Those darknesses to me are veils - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

The clouds that veil a star - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

With gorgon-figured veil o'erspread - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

The dark rain veil making a bride of the mountain - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

Veiling all that may befall - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

The hazy horizon's mystic veil - Marie Hedderwick Browne "By the Sea"

This veil of lavender and dawn - Witter Bynner "Veils"

Or veil themselves in purple light - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"

And doubt's dark shadows veil the light - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"

Enchantment's veil withdraws - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"

Veils of fierce cobwebby fires - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

With which God veils His face - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Veiled in the glow of the golden broom - Giosue Carducci "A Dream in Summer" transl. by Frank Sewall

To spread its veil of summer frost - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall

The law behind the veil - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

The very stars which pierce the veil - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Veiled in the mystical silence of stars - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Fire"

Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"

The veils of sheer deceit - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"

Veiled in grey ashes sleeps - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

To the eyes of him who lifts the veil - Arthur Colton "The Thrush"

And for one moment raise the mystic veil - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Veils in clouds the sun's meridian beam - George Crabbe "The Library"

And even the veiled stars withdraw - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

Glittering veils of light about her - Olive Custance "The Autumn Day"

Seen through a veil of silver - Olive Custance "Endymion"

Break through your veils of lawn - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"

Flings a crystal veil - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature L: The Snow"

Veil your deathless tree - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XLII"

Veiled walks in twilight streets - Jeanne d'Orge "The Sealed Package"

To veil command in tender invitation - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Who hide behind the veil of vengence - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Stars whispering behind veils - Cheryl Dumesnil "What You Were Doing Up There"

Glitter fierce in loose veils of oil - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 2. Corexit 9527A"

Veil of dead smiles and forgotten tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"

Raise the veil of memory - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

Half hidden under the liquid veil of spring - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Beyond the unpierced veil of silence - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Veiled in shadow, hushed and still - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]

Rays of glory, vague with veils - Zona Gale "Light"

Veiling green with grey - Zona Gale "Wonder"

Raise the veil from the shores of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

My heart is still veiling dawn - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Falling, starless veils of lace - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

A veil that borrows gloom - Ellen Glasgow "Mary"

Caught in your treacherous veil - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"

Denser shadows veil the light - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"

When Night lifts her veil from you - Alfred Perceval Graves "Lough Leane"

Each murder, a thinly veiled fundraiser - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

From my Moon removed her veil - Hafiz "The Divan XLI" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Through shimmering veils of harp and flute - Katherine Hale " CalvÉ in Blue"

Veiled against too strong a stare - Thomas Hardy "An Ancient to Ancients"

Never veil that world of light - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]

May veil Apollo's light - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

The proud spirit's veil - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"

Garlands veil the shafts of death - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

And raised its jealous veil between - F.A. Hillard "Two Mirrors" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.85, Jan. 1875]

Look not beneath his azure veil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"

For the vapors that fringe the veil - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Take away your veil of stars - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

And veil thy breast with icicles - Jean Ingelow "Requiescat In Pace!"

Who sings my name beyond the veil - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"

the illicit behind a fiberoptic veil - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"

All those veils of grey and golden gossamer - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XV"

Though Inexperience cease to veil the Truth - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

The hot mist that veils my eyes - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

Heat shimmer veils Heisenberg details - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Glowing through the veils of storm - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

Through yonder rended veil of green - Lucy Larcom "November"

Weaves a veil made of weeping - Else Lasker-Schuler "Homesick" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Thin veils of mist between their branches - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Stripped of all illusive veil or haze - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Behind thy pearly veils opaque, mysterious woof - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

From beyond the veils of sundering wave - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

The wind’s fine veil - Megan Levad "Foundling"

Lost in the veil of rain - Casandra Lopez "10th St Porch: Investigation"

Veiling with garlands Moloch's bloody stone - James Russell Lowell "Bankside"

At the veiled Isis in its keep - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Dropped a veil of changing light - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"

Thin veils, woven of thought - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Dark with its widow's veil that hid the galaxy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The thick veil upon Heaven's heart - Theodore Maynard "A Reply"

A fine veil of whispered voices - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"

Shaken veils still whispering - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Decrepit sage of the veil - Dante Micheaux "Center Ring"

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

As burning paths reveal veiled huts - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

All veil of shame laid by - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

A fading dream of veil and star - E. Nesbit "The Veil of Maya"

A veil that has nothing behind it - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

Your cold secrets wrapped in a storied veil - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Veil away your tender eyes - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

A veil she planned to drop - C.G. Poore "A Maiden Lady"

In the veil of cobwebs dressed - Miriam Clark Potter "Rain-on-the-Roof"

Sorrow, veiled in scornful pride - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Never Again"

Which the hallowed veil of years bequeaths - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"

Veils of cloud and sacred deep repose - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"

Tangled in the heavy purple veil - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

Go veiled on secret silver thresholds - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"

That veiled light of paradise - Charles G.D. Roberts "From the High Window of Your Room"

Through the veil of darkened hours - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

In veil of woven gloom - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"

And veil'd in folly wisdom's face - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Night's gloomy jaws veil him darkly - Friedrich Schiller "Monument of Moor the Robber"

Whose samite masks veil little more than entropy - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

A mask of saffron veiled us from ourselves - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

The veil of night withdrawn - Frederick George Scott "At Lauds"

Sun-widowed and veiled with thin air - Frederick George Scott "Thor"

Beneath the sinuous veil of woven wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Who kissed the veil from Beauty's face - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

My face only veil - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"

My dead tooth unmaking the veil - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Shall have the veils of twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "Ashes of Sunset"

Those unvaried darks that veil Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"

Veiled in shifting vapors - Jean M. Snyder "Scotland (The Highlands)"

Gone somewhat within the veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

In her diamond-laden bridal veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

The portent and the veil - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Veil across that ever-brooding sky - Howard V. Sutherland "The Northern Light"

Veiled by change that ebbs and flows - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"

Woven a veil for the weeping face - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The secret spice of those veiled hours - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"

When earth and heaven lay down their veil - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

While the relentless shade draws on its veil - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"

A living veil drops down from the sky - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Veiled Mystery broods obscure - Louis Tiercelin "By Menec'hi Shore" (translated by William Sharp)

The young moon with her head in veils - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

Revealed through Music's lucid veil - Henry van Dyke "Richard Watson Gilder: In Memoriam"

Where voyage veils of gossamer - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XXIV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Dream flowers drawn by moving veils - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"

The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"

The vast veil over heaven - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

Across the blue of Isis' veil - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"

All to-morrows hid behind the veil - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

With her mantle veils the Sun's bold eyes - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

A veiled obsession with death - Katie Willingham "Darwin (Disambiguation)"

When Death shall veil these objects - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


Full-veiled in peerless robes of light - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]


When the mortal spirit weds a half-veiled immortality - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"


Unveil.


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