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Whispers the tale of waning years - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

To disappointment's sudden darkness wanes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Strangled the waning moon - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Grieves for its waning power - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"

The waning moon glowing like a hypothesis - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

The mandate of the waning moon - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

Where tired stars wane - Coningsby Dawson "Childish Travelling"

Reread Aristotle by waning light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Bestow the soothing of his waning glow - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

As flowers wane in summer's heat - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XIV"

Till all the eternal stars shall wane - Elinor Jenkins "H.S.T. Requiescat"

When the year begins to wane - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Keyed to waxing or waning crescent - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"

And truth's perpetual lamp forbid to wane - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

While the waning light burns - George Martin "Eudora"

The waning tide of a waveless sea - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]

Trembling Hope, with waning spark, fades - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "No Tears" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.43-v.I, 25 Oct. 1884]

Before earth's dawn hour thought to wane - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"

Memory marks the wane of iron times - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Waning rose by ungathered rose - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"

Starward incense of the waning rose - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

As through the waning gold I come - Arthur Stringer "Dedication [Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia]"

The red moons wane to white - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

The blue moon wanes into another cold month - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"

Tranced in rapture, the day forgets to wane - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Freedom lights anew her waning fires - "The Union Marseillaise" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Wane to an underworld of ghosts - Edith Wharton "Les Salettes"

When sunset's wrath has waned - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

Brave mists that waver and wane - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"

A sadder light than waning moon - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The waning of love has beset us - W.B. Yeats "The Falling of the Leaves"


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