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Primordial mist revealed in spots of soft light - Linda Addison "Evolving"

So purely yonder in soft air - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The stars' soft eyes alone may see - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"

Opened the violet's soft blue eye - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

Falls soft on the white - Willis Boyd Allen "By Night"

Soft pity's sorrowing look - "The Alter'd Lay"

You cannot build anything soft - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"

Softer than the voice of love returned - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

Soft on that copper palm - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"

The softest kiss in the wrong direction - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Soft friendships of pretty paint and kindnesses of mortar - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"

Softer breathe the gentle zephyrs - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"

Answer my soft whistle with a scream - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

Even over echo's soft retreat - Cora C. Bass "May"

An owl's soft, pulsing calls - Terry Blackhawk "Along Waite Road"

The soft harp of snowfall - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

The soft comfort of flour between my fingers - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"

Softest on sorrow's wound - William Lisle Bowles "Time"

Balm of soft oblivion - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 11"

With soft and drunken laughter - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

A soft impulse, a sudden dust - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"

The soft equilibrium behind laughing eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"

Silken mittens soft and quaint - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Her First Season"

Soft with promise - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Birds soft singing through the shade - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"

Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"

The soft chiming of the vesper bell - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"

Cradled in her soft voice - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

The soft murmur of a thousand rills - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"

Soft orange inside my steel - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"

When soft September brings again - Arthur Hugh Clough "Written on a Bridge"

The soft places in the center of the heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Hovering in a soft eclipse - Susan Coolidge "My Birthday"

In the loose girdle of soft rain - Hart Crane "My Grandmother's Love Letters"

Soft as tread of visions - Nathalia Crane "Choice"

Among the stars, soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "Untitled"

The majesty soft darkness lent - R.P. Crenshaw, Jr. "Echo"

Could jewels be so soft - George Cronyn "Disillusion"

By soft gradations of ascent - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Of night's soft decline - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"

Softer be they than slippered sleep - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"

In sleep's soft fetters bound - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"

In the copycat soft of me - Marissa Davis "Singularity"

Soft pathways for the praying bird - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Stealing soft enchantment from their eyes - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Soft skirts of flame - Leconte de Lisle "The Black Panther" (translated by W.J. Robertson)

The soft applause of sugar spilling - Diane DeCillis "Power of Suggestion"

Behind this soft eclipse - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XVI: Apocalypse"

The daisy follows soft - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXIV"

Soft captivity of circling arms - Edward Dowden "Helena"

Soft whisperings of the wheat - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Run into a softer wall - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"

Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"

Soft as music's dying fall - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"

Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"

Soft flowers wreathing a hero's sword - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

Around the soft seeds of their flesh - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"

Soft and cold as ash - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

Medea's soft and deadly name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

And gives my doomed hands a soft task - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

A soft surprise to strangers - Katherine Hale "Bush Road"

The murmurs of zephyrs soft and bland - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

With soft enchantments and divine control - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Secure soft slumber to his bones - Felicia Hemans "Epitaph on Mr W--, a Celebrated Mineralogist"

Would beam with softer light - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"

Dissolve in Love's soft flame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"

The softest carpet nature weaves - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"

In every key from soft to shrill - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

And catch hold of a soft pulse - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

With soft melting murmurs - John Imlah "Kathleen"

Soft, nostalgic brown - Malathi Michelle Ivengar "Sepia"

Hard and soft sugar playing a supporting role - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"

Rarer than soft honey cells - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Among soft fires can drink - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

In filmy gossamer and soft brocade - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Sea Spell"

Lighting the entire soft lace of the air - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

The new soft fallen mask of snow - John Keats "Bright Star"

Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

The soft wind upon their summer thrones - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"

Soft incense hangs upon the boughs - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Soft embalmer of the still midnight - John Keats "To Sleep"

Sealed by the soft hand of sleep - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Wrapt in a halo as soft, and as bright - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

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

Changed with the soft heat of your dreams - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"

The soft strains of David's Lyre - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"

Spreads soft and silvery thin - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

With a motion soft and slow - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

With soft throats unaltered - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

A glamour soft with gold - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

The soft June days forever done - George Parsons Lathrop "The Child's Wish Granted"

Through still, soft air that cry is yet prolonged - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Shielding so soft a heart - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

That recalls the soft murmur of bees - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (to a Civil Question)"

The soft, high bed of Peace - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

The soft life of your footprints - Ada Limon "The Same Thing"

By soft mirage uplifted - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Too soft for honest wrath - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

The soft instructions of our dreams - Thomas Lynch "The Student"

When suns are soft and breezes kind - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Vassal"

Their soft dyes had steeped my soul - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"

Faint footfalls and soft shadows - Edwin Markham "The Valley"

Softest harmonies of air and ocean - George Martin "Laleet"

A jewelled beam of soft enchantment - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"

Soft as shadows in a pool - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"

Soft as winnowing plumes of sleep - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Venus' soft voice imparting its joy - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (13)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Wooed by the wind's soft word - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

Beneath all its soft battles and sinews - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"

His tubes of soft quicksilver - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

Soft Architect of silvery gleams - "The Ocean Wanderer"

That nothing exists fierce or soft - Mary Oliver "If the philosopher is right"

Under layers of leaves and soft dirt - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

A soft deer browsing the woods - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

The softest acrylic sunny day - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"

Soft as twilight waters - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

Soft dew-drop of my heart's one flower - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"

Soft cradled by the tide - Theodore H. Rand "The Sea Undine"

With soft notes of the arisen lilies - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

Soft splendors in the west - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"

Soft melody, outpoured in June - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"

Spilling blue words like soft rain - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"

A soft haze of delicate hyacinth - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"

As soft as the feet of sleep - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"

To dream in soft ethereal realms of bliss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

That no God's heart is softened by our cries - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"

Committed their soft bodies to the salt - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"

Morning sunlight's soft command - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Too Late"

The pine-tree's soft melody - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"

Soft with sweet cadence - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"

With soft spun verses and tears unshed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Soft enough to couch each rumbling dream - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

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

A kindness of soft needles - TC Tolbert "What I really want to know is how rough, Melissa,"

The familiar because it feels soft and always - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Shall softer than the dawn come stealing - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"

The soft wine turned to bloom - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"

Troubling the still soft swarms of fallen stars - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Curled its soft lure into bone - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

Straining to win that soft sequestered note - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

On softest feathers of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Soft shapes of stealth - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

When sunlight stole through the soft hours - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Soft as wind it passes - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]

Soft as August's livid purple figs - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]


No shadow to soften his loneliness - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

Deflected Dali's softening emissions - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

All your stores of softening balm - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

meadowsweet softened by drizzle - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

All your jagged syntaxes softened - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"

Softened by frost - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

Their passion and ire softening now - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"

Names that soften at moon - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

A brief softening and then a flood - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

Around the tossing park and down the softened street - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"

Pray this world has softened you - Joseph Rios "Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tios"

The bite of a softened cardamom pod - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

And their jubilee-shout shall be softened - Sir Walter Scott "Song"

Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"

Soften the declining day - Helen Maria Williams "Sonnet, To Twilight"



Still and softly sleeping - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Evening's shadows softly intervene - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"

Softly from their parting buds uncoil - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

from steep hills by darkness softly brought - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Softly stepping from the slender Moon - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"

Sing it softly, for the song is wild - Langston Hughes "Genius Child"

October's orchestra plays softly - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]

The earth's gold breath falling softly - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

Softly buckled round their toes - Furnley Maurice "Barter"

Love's softly glowing spark - Claude McKay "The Barrier"

The softly swirling undersong - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

Kissing the Old World, softly to sleep - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Softly triumphant folding immensities of light - Lola Ridge "Mother"

Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Why the tangled roses breathe so softly to the moon - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"

When purest gold fell softly to the snow - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

To cry only softly at the ashes of my mysteries - Carl Sandburg "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"

Softly dreaming, waking never - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

This softly tendered now - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"


To a softness that renames their tongues - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

The softness of a trillion purple skies - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"

An autumn predicting softness - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"

the white powder of internal softness and decay - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

The determined touch of softness - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Who could refuse this softness? - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #24"

As if we could shape softness - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"


Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"


Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"


Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"


Softly-severed tangle - Edward Dowden "To Hester"


Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"


As the soft-shod hours passed - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"


On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"


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