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Dead to every gain but gold - "An Army Contractor" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

gained a world not worth the lost - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"

Gains the dimension of eternity - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Gains power from such multiplicity - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"

Built of equations for gain - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

The total of my bolder gains - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. V: Housewife"

The drawbacks against the equivalent gains - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

What shall be the Traitor's gain? - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

No painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Despondency Rebuked"

Expense of grief gains no remorse - Sir William Davenant "The Soldier Going to the Field"

And gaining the universal synthesis - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

Loveliest gains and fair surrenders - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

May struggle with great odds to gain - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

A captive fettered to the oar of gain - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Put forth no more for glory or for gain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

That makes my grief her gain - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"

Can give without gain - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"

One's gain was not the other lessened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

Crossing between gain and loss - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

All he has gained by his actions to-day - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Gained sweetness from thy voice - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."

The ocean keeping whate'er it gains - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]

End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

To finished loss or finished gain - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]

As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

To place my gains beyond the reach of tides - Henry David Thoreau "The Fisher's Boy"

By such tricks to hope for gain - Isaac Watts "The Thief"

Wake power to gain the fight - Helen Hay Whitney "For Your Sake"


The stars burning gainless - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"


Regained the solitude of roads - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"

Sees darkness regain swift command - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

And mocked by hopeless longing to regain - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"


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