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Though a few show some flicker of life - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

In ill-weather lets the ledge show fang - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

To show him views from all angles at once - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Than thy brother stars can show - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

Communicate through showing how an object acts on me - Mary Jo Bang "Long-Exposure Photograph of a Man"

In painted frescoes shown - Charles Baudelaire "The Evil Monk" transl. not credited

A steel smile that showed the teeth of war - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

To show the limit of the thing desired - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

A conjurer to show us wondrous tricks - "The Birthday Party" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Shows a maze without a clue - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Twigs show again in the quick cleavage of season - Louise Bogan "Elders"

And shows her fading scroll - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"

As ever shown by time - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"

Let the mimic canvas show - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Showing the lines of a silver path - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"

Show us the rose, with a hundred dyes - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]

Surprise was shown in every eye - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

Before the sun would show his face - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

Or why neglect thus shows its face - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Ask not the idle cards to show - Rev. William Crowe "To a Lady, Fortune-Telling with Cards"

And her attendant fays glad homage shew [sic] - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]

Shows the power of luminous Truth to kill - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Showed in dreams to me - Walter de la Mare "The Song of Soldiers"

Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

To show how strong the silent passions are - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

The gray pavement show a sheeted face - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

The lightning showed a yellow beak - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"

An antique fashion shows - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love XV"

That makes no show for dawn - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LVII: Sleeping"

I show brave to my body - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"

Ask the sky to show its hands - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"

The djinn shows me many moons - Tarik Dobbs "A Djinn in Sakhnin"

I'll show you the apples that grow on the tree - "Dolly's Promenade" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

I'll show you the bees, and the butterflies, too - "Dolly's Promenade" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Show us the way and point us the path - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To show me everything she's left a mark on - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

Where Winter shews his starry signs - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

And, girt not less with ruin, lives to show - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Shades of faith that different show - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Every fleck of russet showing clear - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

Showed no wealth of sheep or grain - Robert Graves "On the Ridge"

Nor a star abroad the way to show - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

Let your chambers show no sorrow - Thomas Hardy "To a Well-Named Dwelling"

And showed its yawning caves beneath me - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

A moving Show of whirling Shadow Shapes - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Showed the actual presence free from cloud - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

To show what man should never see - Thomas Hood "The Water Lady"

And showed me my business of dying - A.E. Housman "Last Poems VI: Lancer"

This show of tangled profusion - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

Has ever stood the best in this world's show - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"

Empire warps the soul for show - Fady Joudah "Problems of Moon Language"

Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Did not draw the map that shows the sticky trail - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

In a variety show of deathbed ways - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Showed them the secret of stealing honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Showing their ribs to the wind - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Your barns show vacant floors - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Where glow-worm shows his tiny lamp - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

The tea showed its excellent sense - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

To show a disregard for truth - Henry S. Leigh "Crooked Answers No. 1--Vere de Vere"

Ask the wind to show my path - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

To show the guests the memory of the sea - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

Stop showing off wounds to strangers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Shows her everything there is of pleasure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A vast and unexampled show of fireworks - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Make a universal sweep of all that serves to show - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

Could show me so divine a thing - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

The inn where the lamps show plain - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"

Showing eager teeth of battle - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Cheated by a juggler's show - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Showed up too late to a parade - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

And showed me rivers of light - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

Shows the ancient proverb's force - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: III. The Third Hole"

Showed a sun within its heart - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

A pebble could show you how to be smooth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"

A field could show how to sleep without walls - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"

Private show for the Gods - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Traces of the past showing through - Linda Pastan "Thanksgiving Ghost"

A show of arrogant spirit - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson

White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

In the crowns like resurrection show - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Your country shows you its wound - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

With all the array of bold and martial show - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

The dials of earth may show - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"

What earth's bright shows to few reveal - J.S. "Goethe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Open to show red lipstick - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"

This graph showing allowable outcomes - Brenda Shaughnessy "2-Sided Map Shows Line Where Falling Bodies Land"

Show me a fairer sky above - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"

That showed me the world aslant - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"

Alien ciphers shown and lit - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Not a beaver showed his head - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"

Show of them that long dead came - Th. Stoker "Heaven" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

Shows the swallow the wind's way - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"

each new days i show my garnet arms - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Show us crimson in some tragic way - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

When the waves show their teeth - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

With a roar show the white - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

With some show of inconvenience - William Carlos Williams "Tract"

Earth has not anything to show more fair - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"

What wealth the show to me had brought - William Wordsworth "[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]"

Osiris has shown us the way to cross - Charles Wright "Celestial Waters"

A score of hearts will show - Anon. [Untitled]


Nor bitter irony a truth foreshows - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"


The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"


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