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Of worlds whirling in their bright spheres - Effie Afton "The Soul's Destiny"

Cast them beyond the planet's sphere - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

Beyond the sphere of doubt and crime - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Drowse in the shade of their whirling sphere - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

A small sphere set loose upon four stretched dimensions - Jenise Aminoff "Love's Not Time's Fool" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]

On our sorrow-trodden sphere - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Ascends the lunar sphere - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Lift my spirit to the spheres - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres - Laurence Binyon "For the Fallen"

Losing that forgetful sphere - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"

Gladdened once our humble sphere - Anne Bronte "Reminiscence"

From the fusion of forces whence issued the spheres - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Bidding the attuned spheres the notes prolong - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Danced in the sphere serene - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall

Shall exist in nobler spheres - John Castillo "To a Withered Flower!"

To claim in higher spheres a refuge - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

In His hands a thousand spheres - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

All the golden forests of the spheres - Olive Custance "Grief"

Regents of the spheres of light - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Melts from the mid spheres of heaven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Receding through the spheres - John William Draper "The Vision of Dante"

Beyond the Circle of its Sphere - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

The firm stars and the swinging spheres - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Meditations on the Last Judgment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]

Uplift my powers above the sphere - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Meditations on the Last Judgment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]

Tidings of the starry sphere - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The clarity and precision of the crystalline spheres - Timons Esaias "Dark Matter"

To dance to the tune of reeling spheres - Beulah Field "In the Street of Painted Flowers"

Who dwell in a conquered sphere - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"

Set far above the sphere of accidents - Robin Flower "Sonnet 5 [The stars are throbbing in the lucid sky]"

A rough guide to the musics of the sphere - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

And myself gazing glassed in perfect sphere - Nora May French "The Nymph"

The chiming of each starry sphere - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Unravelled of customs half a mundane sphere - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Trod the starry gulf from sphere to sphere - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"

Dew droppings sweet from starry spheres - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

The sphered galaxy of bubbles - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"

Wind from heaven's memorial sphere - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Images burst with fire into the quiet sphere - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

The sphered stars powdered in shining atoms - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

When I survey the bright Celestial sphere - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]

The sun which lights the sphere - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

A sphere out of the road of business - Sir Matthew Hale "Paraphrase from Seneca"

From twain spheres with hearts distuned - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"

Beyond the sphere of time - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

The spheres encircling glory's throne - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Exiled from thy sphere - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Poise of reason's sphere maintain - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The seven-month sphere emerging from water - David Hornibrook "Tides"

A vast sphere of seething atoms moving to one law - Aldous Huxley "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"

That illuminates the celestial sphere - Vanessa Jae "The Fear of Cyborgs to Believe in Flesh"

Sphered that eye of flawless diamond - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

The great space wherein the firm spheres roll - 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 last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

The grand revolving spheres of heaven - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The chant ineffable of hidden spheres - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"

In our restricted sphere - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

The ancient music of the vernal spheres - Richard Le Gallienne "June"

Longing for those far-off spheres - J.R. Lowell "A Song [Violet! sweet violet!]" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]

Strange voices of an alien sphere - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Fountain-Springs"

Are one with flaming spheres - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Cosmos"

Falls from the vortice of the spheres - Edwin Markham "The Poet"

Becomes a mist between the spheres - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

The evils of this troubled sphere - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

In spheres and cupolas it moved through empty spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Malice stilled the music of the spheres - H.P. McKnight "An Initial Acrostic"

Might pluck an angel from the spheres - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"

Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

Paradoxical private sphere - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'

Welcome in those happier spheres - Morna "Ianthe"

The dancers of the celestial sphere - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Settling into a new sphere of darkness - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly

Rolled up within a sphere of flame - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Antony to Cleopatra After Actium"

An infinite sphere enfolding Space and Time - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

This side of the heavens' spheres - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

No matter in what sphere the scoundrel shine - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

All the glowing spheres of paradise - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

That weighs in her balance the spheres - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Mortal in its cornered sphere - Robert Pinsky "Rhyme"

O'erleaps the due progression to its sphere - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

In his starry sphere remote - John Presland "To the Leaders of Both Parties January 1910"

Has quaffed defiance to the spheres - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To --"

Across a wind-swept sphere - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Welcome"

An unknown sphere of dreams - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"

Burns in the flying spheres - Theodore H. Rand "The Veiled Presence"

All the spheres along the sky - Herbert Randall "Feel of the Wander-Lure"

Leads her to her own blue sphere - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

A sphere surrounding nothingness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 1: The Ray"

Through the jasper-colored sphere - Charles Sangster "The Illumined Goal"

And the belated moor refilled her sphere - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"

Devour the suns and slumbers of the broken spheres - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Turns the ashen sphere about the rusted poles - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Distant spheres obey her power - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

That out-top the adoring spheres - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Meet with spheres of fiery mist - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

The science of stars caught in these spheres - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Each distinct in its sphere divine - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

In some brighter sphere - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"

The arrows of that silver sphere - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

Milton sings with drooping spheres about him - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Fresh altars in a distant sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

That rots the stone of fundamental spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

From the beginning of the spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Sung in the Romes of ruined spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

The fire and dust of perished sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Orchid"

My thoughts amid the golden spheres - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"

Natives of a dwindled sphere - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"

Fires in the spheres of stars - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Sphere all your lights around - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

The portals of the solemn sphere - V. "The Grave"

Shine through all the sphere - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"

The skunk cabbage raising bursting violet spheres - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"

And pass to fitting spheres - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

Majestic in its ample sphere - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Till angels wrap the spheres in fire - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Causing the sun to shine in his sphere - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"


Swung in crimson-sphered completeness - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"


That keeps the rolling universe ensphered - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"


Where spheral voices blend - Robert W. Service "Quatrains"


In a silent spheric tune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"

On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"


In thought-spheres far above us - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]


Or unsphere the spirit of Plato - John Milton "Il Penseroso"


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