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All who seek the debt of praise - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

What praise can we give with bound hands - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"

Always in praise of the elder tongue - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

For which praise is useless - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

accolades glimmer in constellations of praise - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

Praising them all for honest, quiet work - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"

Will hear no praise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Praise to the obsidian sole - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"

Prepared in all to render them due praise - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

Charms many praise beyond all measure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]

In the passion of his praise - Lucille Clifton "dog's god"

Pleased with the praise of fools - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

This sacrifice of praise - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Thank You Jesus"

Standing in the fields of praise - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

His praise was heat to drink me dry - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"

The circlet of your praise - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

Solomons legioned for bewildered praise - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"

Poets praise that hidden wine - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Praise god for the art of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Of Ceos"

With thirst of praise and glory burns - "Flora: a Vision"

Praising the violet and vermilion - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

Take praise in solemn mood - Richard Watson Gilder "Ah, Be Not False"

The last glimmering of your praise - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

Praise made of copper - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"

Kings mourn that promised praise - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

Hollowed out and built of praise - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"

Who never neglect to offer up praise - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

And the sound of perpetual praise - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"

No praise for the hand that harms me - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

Took her praise for a wreath of bay - Joyce Kilmer "Alchemy"

Praises this blindfold of world - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"

All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

Until then, praise the walls - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

The blundering praise of fame - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"

Praise him from the heights of peace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

The golden harvest of their praise - George Martin "Eudora"

And praised her tattered bravery - Theodore Maynard "For They Shall Possess the Earth"

My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"

To praise each beetle's burnished wing - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"

Have passed from praise - Claude McKay "Heritage"

Sniffs the putrid steam of praise - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Clothing yourself in praise - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"

Like eyes ready to be praised - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"

The prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Praise the purposeful silver needle - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"

Praised for the silence between his notes - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Praise all small forgotten miracles - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Traveling Onion"

the frost they ought to praise - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

May loiter with a word of praise - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Praise what is left - Linda Pastan "In the Forest"

Illume my darkness and direct my praise - Philo "The Tribute"

Joys for which we utter praise - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"

that praise what blood buys - C.T. Salazar "River"

Whom the stars praise as they roll - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

But lack tongues to praise - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

All their praises are but prophecies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

With single heart give praises - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Praise the Ocean for teaching me - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"

Praise the heavenly scorch of heat - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"

Let us praise the ghost gardens - Maggie Smith "Perennials"

Instead praise meadow and ruin - Maggie Smith "Perennials"

And makes a constant sacrament of praise - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

Should ache with praise - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"

On to the fields of praise - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Who pay no praise or wages - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Recorder of praised defeat - Edwin Torres "Waiting Outside the Cafe"

With empty schemes of praise - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

All praise to your iron style - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"

Praise to the king of the wildwood ring - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Shall wear their robes of praise - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Praise too our sorrows - Richard Wilbur "Psalm"

The praises sold at truth's expense - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Live upon their praises - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"

How deepest wounds are given by praise - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"

And desolation in her praise - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"


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