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An inference clean against logical laws - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"

My own man in the eyes of the law - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

His reason waits on the law's black hates - William Francis Barnard "The Hangman"

Where Hammurabi made firm wings of law - Lou Barrett "Fertile Crescent"

When the law leaves a dream gutted - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"

Fast as the law would allow - Frank Bidart "California Plush"

Fenced by bulwarks of the law - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

A sign and seal of dominating law - Louise Morey Bowman "The Post Box"

Ash tight fingers, the steel laws of fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Barbary White"

Strange language and new laws - Francis Burrows "The Well"

Primal chaos under cosmic law - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The law behind the veil - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

If the hounds of law pursue - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"

By vengeful laws the Wizard brood - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"

Could break death's adamantine law - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For an Anarchist"

The law of communicating clouds - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

Victim of evils and of laws - Madame Deshoulieres "Reflections" transl. by Yvor Winters

Old laws of heaven and earth - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"

No laws written to guard you - Carol Ann Duffy "White Writing"

The army of unalterable law - T.S. Eliot "Cousin Nancy"

And make just laws below the sun - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

Made fractional by law - Heid E. Erdich "Now, What Is She?"

If wisdom's right law they obey - "The Fox and the Geese"

Bowed with grace to natural law - Robert Frost "Brown's Descent, or the Willy-Nilly Slide"

They demand coins or laws - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: II"

And serve Minerva's colder law - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IV"

Hating the laws that bind it here - Robert Graves "Sullen Moods"

A curse for treaties, bonds and laws - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

And justify the laws of Jove - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Accepts dreams as law - Jim Harrison "The Home"

The black magic of law - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXXI"

All the rigorous laws of risk - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"

The law is full of dreams - Jackson Holbert "For Jakob"

Such virtue as commends the law - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

The law of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

Ghosts of old letters, old laws - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

And let the law go whistle - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

With laws that serve as wire and root - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Strengthened by the primal law of toil - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

In defiance of all laws of thermodynamics - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

Eternal dome of mathematical law - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shell"

Where Greeks profaned the Law - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

Never known a law to rewind a bullet - Tariq Luthun "Al-Bahr"

To interpret the tablet of laws - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson

If law opposes a sin so fair - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

True to mercy's law - George Martin "Eudora"

A law pinned to a quail's wing - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"

When the law is muscled and violent - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)

Exceeds the bound of laws - Claude McKay "One Year After"

Taught Punic faith and mocked the laws - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Do half-homage to the God of Laws - George Meredith "Society"

Then the cry that knows not law - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Could unstop all the laws of the universe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"

For you've nothing to do with our laws - "Monroe to Farragut" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

The flood-flecked talon's law - Pablo Neruda "Interstellar Eagle" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The secret harmony of law - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

After so many aeons of ordered law - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Governed by a law unknown - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Heard the music of one law - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

By dark predetermined laws - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

The great rhythm of law - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

Where laws stay on one bank of the river - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Fears no law of diminishing returns - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"

Hatched from a broken law - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata: On Faith"

In the name and cause of law - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Fist"

The law of forgetting - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

The law of pain - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

The law of things falling - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

All the laws he must obey - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Written Upon Love's Frontier-Post"

The only plan allowed by law - Edwin C. Ranck "The Doodle Bug"

Given us Your laws for an inheritance - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

The law whereby our senses live - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Done without aid of the law - Joshua Ross "The Wanderer"

The law of stars held together - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"

Before a Solon had devised the laws - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Dug from law its deep foundations - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

Instinct mutates to law - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

Constrained no longer by the laws of man - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah III: Nahab"

All my look was law - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"

To guard the lawful reasons - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIX"

In the Garden is a hallowed emptiness of laws - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

The laws and trysts of love and gravity - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"

Each a certain law - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"

The throned infinity of law - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Fell into the law's net - Su Tung-p'o "New Year's Eve" transl. by Burton Watson

A broken lance against iron laws - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"

Opens one's heart to the law - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

The million laws of nature's realm - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours X" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

His duty to maintain the laws - Arthur Weir "L'Ordre de Bon Temps"

By what law did Sagittarius make his squatter's claim - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Law squints out from its burrow - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

No law that restrains enormity - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver


All law-born years - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"


Imagination's lawless rage - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

In the lawlessness of sleep - Stephen Dunn "I Caught Myself Thinking the Horizon"

The rivers wend a lawless course - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

By the daydream of lawless rush hour - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"


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