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Seven sacred seals begem - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett


Crown him with gems and roses - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"

Bear not one gem of all her store - George A. Baker "A Rosebud in Lent"

Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

A specter's gem in the shadow-playtime - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"

Gems and ivory, spices and wines and oil - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Caught at the edge of the net of gems - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

I call the gems from the necks of fair ladies - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

And I will wear gems for your sake - Olive Custance "Gifts"

Gems among the gold and silver leaves - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

In its diadem so pure a gem - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"

Of green gems on my apple tree - John Drinkwater "May Garden"

Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Though arrayed in gold and gems - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Best gems of Nature's cabinet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

To seek for hell so pure a gem as this - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

That gemmed torture of seed - Rae Gouirand "Arils on Velvet"

Glittering walks of gems and gold - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

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

Like a wild enchanter's gem - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"

One last gem from the heart of the mine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

The city of gems and pearls of light - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

Gems of Art's exhaustless mine - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

The gem which empires could not buy - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Into the death of gems - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

One fostering sunbeam matured the rich gem - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Removed from Vain Fashion"

Of slighted gems and treasured clay - James Weldon Johnson "Ghosts of the Old Year"

The fairest gems of midnight's store - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Made of bats and blood-red gems - Saeed Jones "The Fabulist"

The sun gems their pale robes with diamonds - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

As if some gem lay shrined beneath - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Gemmed with the moon - Amy Lowell "Clear, with Light Variable Winds"

Jewels of the meadow, gems of the lawn - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "daisy"

Gemmed with stars - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

Gems that drop from off a Calif's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Stolen gems that decked the Crown - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Leaping fountains breathe like melted gems - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

To drink the cup gemmed with a poison flood - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

A gem from the deep mines of savagery - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Yellow amber gems to line it - Hoa Nguyen "Netting (Language Ghost)"

Gem on the dark brow of night - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"

Foundations twelve of gems most dear - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Gem of empty air - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Gems half weary of their glittering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Flashed in a rain of gems - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"

The sweetest flow'r that gems the wild - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

With earth and sea's rich gems - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

Gems I held from every land - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"

The jewel groves and gem trees - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

The gem in a cobra's hood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 12: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The tearful-beaded rain froze into gems - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Cast in gold across a wealth of gems - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

Intoxicated with gems and precious stones - "X: Mexica Xopancuicatl Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song of the Mexicans, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Gemstones of sweat on my face - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"


Luna, with her star-gemmed, glorious crown - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]


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