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Host of stars - Anonymous Chinese poem

To lodge with our kind host, the sun - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Nor any of that host of glorious names - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Host and guest exchange cups - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson

Their barks are host to a protean foxfire - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Crucible for a host of chemical incentives - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

Arms hosts your gates surrounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

Captain of the rebel host - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

Two hosts shocked with dust and din - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

Rise and vanish in oblivious host - John Clare "I Am!"

The host of names written on water - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

The serried hosts of falling waters - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

With a host of burning shadows - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

A host of wild creatures live inside you - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

None of all the magic hosts - Robert Graves "Babylon"

By the hemlock's dreamy host - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"

With all the hosts of slaughter - Arthur Guiterman "The Twilight of the Gods"

That hosts the most private sorrows - Yona Harvey "Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime"

A host of filial fair designs - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

As the blazing pillar led the host - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Each step of Edward's conquering host - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Scarce a tithe of all that host that won back home again - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Ceremonial hostess of suppressed rage - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

A hold against the host of the air - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"

New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Time's clashing hosts above - Archibald Lampman "We Too Shall Sleep"

Lord of the dark and moving hosts - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

Fleeing hosts by flaming angels led - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Gleaming spears of great Apollo's host - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"

The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"

Rushing wings of phantom hosts - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

Dispelling all the hosts of night - E.M. "Part III. The Lathe of Morpheus"

And the shining host of stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

The host of the Autumn still hide - Don Marquis "Early Autumn"

With half the host of heaven - Theodore Maynard "Pride"

Host of breath rehoused - Philip Metres "We Are All God's Poems"

Here is a host of Golden Lads - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "November Eleventh"

The banner of that spectral host - George Murray "The Thistle"

The host of stars is scattered - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

An infinite host of infinitesimal systems - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

The wild fantastic hosts of life - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

And the host is the vassal - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

My happy pen your host shall be - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Till all that spectral host appear - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"

Will count the hosts of night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Singled from the anonymous host - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]

Our long grey hosts of rain forever marching by - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

The heavenly host who neither tire nor sleep - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"

the goblin queen hosts a feast of oil - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Whose skill brings hosts to worship - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

A trumpet-voice of phantom hosts - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Join alliance with the hosts of Fate - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

Where Titan hosts have warred - George Sterling "At the Grand Canyon"

Lir's vast host of shouting water - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower

Of all hell's hosts he took the lead - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"

My own host and guest and ghost - Iris Tree "[I feel so much alone]"

To host a thunderstorm - John Updike "Thunderstorm in Dorset, Vermont"

the grateful host for our sorrows and our joys - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

Visions crowd in a quailing host - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

With the host of heaven came - Blanco White "Night and Death"

Whispering phantom hosts - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Ghosts"

Hosts of dancing bluebells - Francis Brett Young "Easter"


The cloud-host, vanquished, took to flight - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]


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