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The Muses chant their starry music - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

My jackdaw Muse of the rebel and dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"

Muse upon eternity's constraint - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"

To the muse impart the laurel crown - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall

Muses while the shadows sleep - Arthur Colton "Faustine"

Some wild-rose muse's haunt - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"

Answered like a dreaming Muse - Olive Tilford Dargan "Path Flower"

Muses in hushed heart-vacancy - Edward Dowden "Ritualism"

I'd wanted a muse, but had created a monster - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Invent some muses and invoke them - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"

A sad Muse in the melodious choir - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"

In the Muses' silent groves - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "[No one talks more than a Poet]" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)

Incense kindled at the Muse's flame - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

I mused beneath the avalanche - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Fair muse of the minstrel - John Imlah "Kathleen"

The gracious Muses turn to Furies - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

gods and muses arc from sky to earth - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

And muse upon the consecrated spot - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Days endeared to every Muse - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Let the muses close the horror shop - Randall Mann "End Words"

The mused soul that dwells in dust - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Strength to endure the gifts of the Muses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"

The Muse forbears to name - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Muses with chastened melancholy - Louis J. McQuilland "In a Library"

The Muse herself that Orpheus bore - John Milton "Lycidas"

To the field of the muse and rhyme - Carlos Montezuma "An Evening's Reverie"

My muddy muse in Atlantic gown - Grace Nichols "Litany"

Mythic muse with ancient loom - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"

No fabled muse need I - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet I"

Brought other Muses down to aid - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The Muse's laurel unbestowed - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"

Worthy of the Muse - Walt Whitman "One's-Self I Sing"

The satyrizing Muse has themes sufficient - "The Whore"



Three little birds in a row sat musing - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

My musing heart suddenly kindled - Edward Dowden "The Gift"

The mind in pensive musings hold - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Musing o'er the dust of fallen Carthage - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

That musing glance that looks through cunning time - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

The wistful musing of the wind - Thomas Runciman "Sonnets VIII"

The musing heart of memories - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

The hour of holy musings - Richard Chenevix Trench "An Evening in France"


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