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Far, far beyond what I can ever pay - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Who first would pay in rhymes instead - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

To superman never pay toll - Howard Futhey Brinton "E Pluribus"

The informer's pay was high - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

They pay not toll of their gold or blood - Frank Oliver Call "The Indifferent Ones"

Pay it back with diamonds and rubies - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

And time a debt to pay - Arthur Colton "Martial to Pliny"

And I with mind will pay the debt - Arthur Colton "To-Morrow"

Paying each service twofold - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

Star-dust pays for no man's bread - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

I pay my debts in kind - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"

And pay tribute with a song - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

Pays for his crumbs with an innocent song - Jacky Dandy "Jacky Dandy's Delight"

A band of debtors who refused to pay - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Paid the debt which all must pay - "Epitaph in a Dedham Churchyard" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Pays a high price for discarded gods - Donald Evans "En Monocle"

To pay our greatest debt - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"

And they pay their father's debt - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

And saved the sum of things for pay - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"

And pay the tribute of a song - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"

Can't four-flush when he's paying rent for two - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Pay your premium of vulgarity - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon

Paying for sins I don’t remember - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Continue paying the devil - Kim Unsong "Karma"

Pay dear with sorrow for brief song - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Tried to ride the buses without paying - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

Paying for her hoe with melancholy songs - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"

Made our calculations pay - Jack LaZebnik "The Day the Tree Fell Down"

Will exact in grief and tears his pay - Lermontof "Why" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

In a cost only I would pay - P. H. Low "Ode"

Pay their nightly homage to the Owls - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"

That pay no toll to death - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

The way to pay tribute to glory - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Our season's debts pay calmly - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Although two shillings in the pound can't pay - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"

Pay the devouring days their all - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Catching fish to pay his debts - E.J. Pratt "The Passing of Jerry Moore"

Now bid the peasant pay no tax - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Who pay their father's debts - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova

Paying close attention to the rapidly changing current - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"

Pay bright homage to oblivion - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]

The toll men pay to that strange ferry-boat - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

A way to pay the infinite tax - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Those that pay the willing loan - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

Where all may pass who pay their toll - Leonora Speyer "Ballad of a Lost House"

Must pay the rose's price - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

Sold the ox to pay taxes - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

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

Something to pay Winter's debts - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"

And yet, for it all, not a penny to pay - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Ashamed to draw my pay - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Could not pay the price of their redemption - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"

For which we've no takes to pay - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"

Pay attention to blossoms and smoke - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"


Which o'erpay the power of Destiny - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]


Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Rent due & payday missing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"


Payment.


A bullet hole in the pay phone - Mahogany L. Browne "On St. John's and Franklin Avenue"


Has paid the debt of nature - "Another Peep at the Links"

Paid better attention to drought - Tacey M. Atsitty "River Sonnet"

The coins that are paid for human breath - William Francis Barnard "The Hangman"

Paid his obolus on the Stygian shore - Charles Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades" transl. not credited

Rain and silence paid another call - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

Paid by work so frail as mine - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIII. To Vittoria Colonna. Brazen Gifts for the Golden" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Paid the debt which all must pay - "Epitaph in a Dedham Churchyard" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Paid the witch's price - Heid E. Erdich "Craving, First Month"

Paid with sighs a plenty and sold for endless rue - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XIII"

Tasted empathy and paid it forward - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Based on allegiance with reluctance paid - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Her ghost to wed and to be paid - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"

Paid for his dreams with gold - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

Have paid chance tribute - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Verses"

Paid in full to axe and flame - John Oxenham "Free Men of God"

Ten by ten tithes have been paid in a dazzling of leaves - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

We had paid our taxes off our veins - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

A collective debt paid - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"


Cloaked in a prepaid identity - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"


A tiger well repay the trouble and expense - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Tiger"

The debt which 'tis your duty to repay - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

To repay the benefits which Hercules conferred - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Who with ingratituded repays my kindness - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

To be repaid by darker hate - "The Misanthrope"

Have repaid my love with guile - "The Misanthrope"

Repays their cost of tears - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"


The unpaid labor of angels - Zaina Alsous "On having begun"

An unpaid wrecking crew - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"

That clears to-day of unpaid debts and future fears - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"


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