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The sky extends blazing centrifugal rays - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"

Flash forth in rays of silvery light - Willis Boyd Allen "The Fourth Watch"

And gentlest ray of stars glide down - Rev. Rufus Henry Bacon "Woman's Heart:--A Sonnet. For Julia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Those starry rays which speak a language known - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Far from the sun's fierce rays - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "The Fisherman's Dream"

Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"

That heavenward flashed its ray - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"

Tints to-morrow with prophet ray - Byron [untitled]

Dark tempests may obscure awhile the potent ray - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Soaked in rays of truth of stories - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

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

Vital ray of the divine sun - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Lynne Lawner

Concentres all the rays of all the ages past - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

When the sunset rays dart kisses - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Not a ray of noontide sought you - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."

Outshot the level rays of flooding sunlight - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

Potent as the rays of pure desire - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Numberless wings in the moon's silver ray - "The Emperor's Rout"

Cast a ray to light lone Tasso's gloom - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]

Jingling tumult of white-hot rays - John Gould Fletcher "London Excursion"

But a ray of truth from Eden's bower - Fritz "The Poet's Power" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.461, 30 Oct. 1852]

Sunshine to the hopeless rays which light futurity - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Rays of glory, vague with veils - Zona Gale "Light"

Cutting me with its million rays - Deborah Garrison "Birth Day Pun"

With clear rays kindled - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Many a gem of purest ray - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Wild with asters' blue rays and white - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

All the diamond's crystal rays - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"

Blinded by fierce calcium rays - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"

Between the stripes and streams of these swift rays - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

Light in fitful rays and tiniest needles - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

A ray of travelling glory - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

The glow-worm scatters self-adorning rays - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]

Melting in the sun's devouring ray - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"

Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

A ray from bygone glory o'er its ruin cast - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

Streaked with no ray of light - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"

Vivid rays tinged sacred Jordan's breast - Mrs. Leprohon (nee Rosanna Eleanor Mullins) "Abraham's Sacrifice"

Sent its storm of dark rays from the back of yonder - Harry Martinson "Aniara 30" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The hunter's moon illuminates it with her bewitching rays - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"

Let the sun's rays speak - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Beware that luring beacon's ray - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

Long rays streaming through the forests - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]

Treasure every eloquent ray of golden light - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Violets' breath and primrose rays - C.I. Pringle "The Last Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.121-v.III, 24 April 1886]

Cracking a star of rays - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

With the pulverized rays of a star - James Whitcomb Riley "Spirk Troll-Derisive"

Silent rays still tranquil and serene - Alice Wellington Rollins "Steadfast"

Hearts, torn from light's cheering ray - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

In the ray of one great sun - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Though smitten by the rays of living stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Tinging the retina with rays from sky - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"

Sought out lone Hesper's diamond ray - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

Iron rays of dawn relentless - Clark Ashton Smith "Desolation"

Rays that leap from severed suns - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Anonymous and terrible mother of the primal ray - James Stephens "The Shadow"

And gave us never yet a ray of satisfaction - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

Won from the rays slipped off the sun - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Scintillating wit of sharpest ray - Rudolph Valentino "Gems of Thought"

Set in ruby rays serene - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

Remains to catch the parting ray - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"

A blaze that cheers the hearth with kindling rays - "Winter" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Gleams forth in fourfold rays - "XIV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Cold and rayless in the starless gloom - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Boundless fields of rayless polar night - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Sequoyah"


By the first swift sun-ray slain - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"


Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"


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