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The ring of their victorious axes - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Lifted high on our victorious shields - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"

Rise victorious from every worldly strife - E.M. "Part VI. The Apologia"

Lifting thyself victorious - Theodore H. Rand "The Cirrus Cloud"

Tramples the victorious sun - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Thin, cruelly swift, victorious Harlequin - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"


Refuse them victory on this field - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

More vanquishing than victory - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 38"

Held you like a victory - Traci Brimhall "Fledgling"

Calamitous as a victory - Lucie Brock-Broido "Pyrrhic Victory"

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

Breathless Victory's exultant tread - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Absolute and technical in victories and defeats - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Fears in Solitude"

Victory comes late - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"

Eyes resolved on present victory - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Of victory shouting to the sun - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"

Victory comes with a palm in her hand - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

Even in victory there hides defeat - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

If to thee the stars yield victory - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

In victory's hour of pride - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

In victory's full resistless tide - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

The flame of future victories - "Hours of Childhood"

Through trial sent and victory given - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"

Wins a defeat with victory - "It Still Moves" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Of victory on field and flood - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

There must be a golden victory - John Keats "Hyperion"

Bound with the laurel of victory - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Ten thousand rush to victory - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

That wrests the victory from pain - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Reason over it no victory knows - Lermontof "My Native Land" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Trick candles on the victory cake - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

Who inherit my warnings, victories, and failures - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong has Breakfast at Tiffany's"

The palm trees chose victory or death - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Empire's small victories enthroned - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"

Vigil in the deep silence of victory - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Sketched out triangular victories - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Who never knew a victory - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Of apples, victory, tangerines, and smoke - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Amid the boasts of victory - Alexander Posey "The Conquerors"

Victory indented in disaster - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Wings great enough to sustain our victories - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

No victory in going swift to ground - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"

Deaf to the tale of our victories won - Sir Walter Scott "Song"

With tales of spears and distant victories - Tobias Seamon "We Asked"

Their brief victories of dusk and dawn - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

Crowning their victory by loose despair - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

From crimson victories of war - George Sterling "Duandon"

Ever strove for victory - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Avert the scourge of victory - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

Victories of the mind - W.B. Yeats "The Sad Shepherd"


Paper-wager and victory-rake - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"


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