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A pearl dissolves into winter's mood - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"

Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring

A ceiling of amber, a pavement of pearl - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Pearls strung on Life's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Friend on Her Birthday"

Pearls of the outer sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Unseen Mermaids' pearly song - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"

Blurry pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Where pearls of joy keep bubbling up - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"

Pearl ships upon a sapphire sea - F. O. Call "The Answer"

Bordered with broken pearls - F. O. Call "Omnipresence"

Threading depths of pearl and rose - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"

Pearly foam from golden bridles - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"

Brighter than jewels or pearl - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"

To see the pearl of light - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"

A great pale apple of silver and pearl - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

As the sea develops pearl and weed - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVII: The Wife"

Till qualified for pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IV"

Yield her moat of pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love IX: Possession"

My shoes would overflow with pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIX: By the Sea"

Little I could care for pearls - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life I: Real Riches"

Golden oriflames and tents of pearl - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

Every pearl in the world releases its oyster - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"

Fetch a pearl from the well - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani

Drink only the milk and eat pearls - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"

A trove of pearls and stones - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"

Bastions fair of coral, and pearl - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"

Pearls command the sky in hushes - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

The city of gems and pearls of light - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

A precious pearl that will not leave the oyster - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"

Hoards his pearls of frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "October"

A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Decked with pearls and paved with sapphires - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Make believe mushrooms are pearls - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

The delicate pearl and the adamantine jewel - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Behind thy pearly veils opaque, mysterious woof - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

His promise of gold and of pearl - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"

Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"

From passion's impregnable pearl - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (12)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Make each tear a pearl - Francis Neilson "Hebe"

Mirrored in the pearly dew - Francis Neilson "Sweet Face, I See Thee Shine"

In a cradle of aggressive pearl - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"

Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"

Golconda's pearls and diamonds rich - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Pearls of acid advice - Grace Paley "I Invited"

As if pearls to flowers were grown - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Little pearls falling on a plate of jade - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

All with pearl and ruby glowing - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"

A shiver riveted with a mouth full of pearls - Sina Queyras "Years"

An atom cast in the pearly gray - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"

Sharks in an ocean of mermaids and pearls - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

Strands of pearls on a silver vase - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. I" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Each hour a pearl - Anon. "The Rosary"

The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"

A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"

The pearled chaplet of spring - Wallace Stevens "The Rock II: The Poem as Icon"

As a seashell spawns a pearl - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 5: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The pearls in the part of her hair - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

In a courtyard of emeralds and pearls - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 101: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson

Precious beads of hope are pearled on each sorrow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

Pearled on each sorrow through the world - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen

Dropped like pearls of melody - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Blackthorn petals pearl the breeze - Mary Webb "Green Rain"

A silver string to pearls of sun - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"

A polished pearl of light above - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"

Landscapes drawn in pearly monotones - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Bartered forty summers for black pearls - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The pearls in the soul of my sea - Melike Ziyawudun "Top Secret" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun


Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"


Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"


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