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From destruction's fiery shower - A.L.O.E. "Save One!"

With drums before and roses showered after - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Each petal a shower of instant truths - Mary Jo Bang "Belle Vue"

Shower down your nearest spears of truth - Natalie Clifford Barney "Life"

The clouds will shower our lips with wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

A shelter from the summer shower - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

Clouds drop baptismal showers of rain - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Showering strange wild music - Frank Oliver Call "In a Belgian Garden"

The scent of April's fruitful showers - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Showers red rain on the shining way - Edward Carpenter "In a Canoe"

Or blighting iron showers - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

Still bravely faced both wind and shower - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"

Shaken pears came tumbling in showers upon the ground - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

And showers her son with candies - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik

Secret herbs their spices shower - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

Refreshed by the sweet Sabbath showers - Charlotte Elliott "Monday Morning"

Nor trembles for the coming shower - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Steeped in the fragrance of summer showers - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers - Robert Frost "The Oven-Bird"

A shower of cinders through the air - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

In the shower of an unseasonal rain - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"

Bursts into flower of flame and shower of song - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]

Like a steep shower of snakes - Richard Hughes "Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus"

With sighs dissolved into showers - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Laughter in a silver shower - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"

Falling thick in showers of hail - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Would shower the day with debris - Hailey Leithauser "Crowbar"

One ceaseless shower of gold - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"

As radiant beams in a luminous shower of light - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Glad as a bird in the sunny showers - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

Before the fall of pestilential showers - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The common strokes of fortune shower - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Are but ashes in the shower - Dugald Moore "To the Clyde"

Showered a million joys - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

Dazzle between the sun and shower - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Beat upon our hearts like showers of frozen hail - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Wearing shower bouquets of rue - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"

Rich as the shower of Danae - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Radiance showers from the jewel-heart of sleep - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

Showers a rain of melody - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

Like light dissolved in star-showers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples"

Softest dews of peace in showers - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

Showering the trees with apprehension - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

Showering their crystals to the moon - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Down dark skirts of drifting showers - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

Shower of fiery sparkles flinging - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Rain down in wondrous showers - "XXVII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


A turquoise chain of sun-shower rain - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"


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