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Tragic thorn-pierced feet - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

His unrequited trust pierces her - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"

Pierced infinity as we rode - Elizabeth Bartlett "Ship of Earth"

Pierced the pitying sky - Cora C. Bass "The Battle of Bunker Hill"

With the piercing flame of endless sorrow - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"

The very stars which pierce the veil - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Of Reason's piercing ray defrauded - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"

Sharp strokes fall piercing, unceasing, and true - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

And arrows of despair spare not to pierce - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The piercing glance of the eagle to the poacher - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Pierce our hearts with cold death frost - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"

Where pale stars pierced the dark - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"

To pierce the mysteries of the skies - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"

Can pierce the mazes of the soul - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

Its terminal clusters piercing thunderheads - Brenda Hillman "1951"

That wake from piercing ecstasies - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"

On which the stars could pierce like elfshot - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

Windows, by the moonlight pierced - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh

Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

The cold moonlight piercing - Kaneko Misuzu "Snow Pile" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Piercing through his midnight sleep - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"

A carp piercing through the dragon's gate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

The twinkling stars pierce me with nostalgia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Pierced the roof of the sky - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

As shadow pierced by sun - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"

The white blanket icicles pierce - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

A rain to pierce the roof - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

That hour of the piercing shaft - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Our songs will pierce the dark fathoms - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"

Pierces the asteroid shard of her heart - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Pierced your stone heart like a sword - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid

A hard star which pierced the jungle - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Though iron and fire pierce you - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Pierce far away the midnight gloom - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

An eagle pierced on his cloudy throne - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"

Pierces the vista of forgotten time - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Ages" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Eel eyes piercing the rivers - Adrienne Rich "Ends of the Earth"

Five-pierced with old pain - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"

Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

The piercing channel from the intersection - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"

A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"

Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Pierced me through with immortal pain - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves

Pierced by the arrows of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 144: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

That pierces heart and spirit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"

Pierce thy heart to find the key - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

With thoughts that pierce like flame - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Pierced through by far-off singing planets - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

The spires that pierce eternity - Iris Tree "Islands"

Pierced with knives of flame - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Pierced by a sword of music - Iris Tree "Moods IV"

Longing for the pierce of stars - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"

Piercing the stubborn stones - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Piercing the dead with the quick - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVII"

Our meeting hearts pierced - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

Piercing the thrust of instinct - Nancy Wood "The Old Ways"


The moon-pierced warp of night - Amy Lowell "Apples of Hesperides"


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