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Gave the strain to wild despair - "The Alter'd Lay"

The melancholy strain of Echo - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"

Profuse strains of unpremeditated art - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

Skylarks straining to locate a star - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"

Strain at a gnat and swallow camels - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Strains at the weight of a buried stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"

Straining the whole horizon - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

The straining sails of unimpeded ships - Witter Bynner "Grieve not for Beauty"

The north's wild vibrant strains - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"

Hush not one fervent strain - John Vance Cheney "Love and Youth"

The bird's long, lethal strain - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

No sadness clogs the dreamer's strain - Charlotte Cushman "Lines to Fitz-Greene Halleck on reading 'Forget-Me-Not' in the July Knickerbocker" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

The strain of the straight lines - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

Chanting strains of ancient chivalry - Coningsby Dawson "The Mirror of Thought"

Money not too much strain on the back - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Clear strains of hymn - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XVII: The Book of Martyrs"

That sweet strain of hours - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

Straining at escaping windows - Mari Evans "Amtrak Suite II"

The moving strains of Eden's harps - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Grim apostle of stress and strain - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

Strains that sky-larks downward send - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

The robin's mellow strain in wild notes gushes - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

With the love of my strained bones - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"

Weigh on the water and strain the rock - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"

Brought a strain from Paradise - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

Strains from that mighty hunting-horn - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

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

Beneath the straining wall of darkness - Ted Kooser "Telescope"

Winds that strain the oak - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"

Beneath the strain of reckless revelry - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

The strain that the wild band plays - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

Sunshine strained through amber wine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

Strains no more availing - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"

These tuneless strains of wrong - Lewis Morris "Cradled in Music"

A strain Titania wove - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"

Sweet chords strained and jangled - John Oxenham "All's Well"

In sacred strains my soul survives my dust - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

Music woven of countless strains - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"

Rams straining beyond the gate - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

That strain to touch their tips with stars - Lola Ridge "Re-birth"

Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"

Where even joy has a minor strain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: I. The Violin-Maker"

A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)

The gallant strain of a pilfered ant - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

The witching strain of a waltz - Robert W. Service "New Year's Eve"

Profuse strains of unpremeditated art - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

With five-fold strains of harmony - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

The wild strain that night-winds wake from reeds - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Cuts the strained knot of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

And strained my sinews sore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

A strain uncomprehended by the sense - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Strain against motion - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"

Black horses yellowing with strain - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"

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


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