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The barren beige of dirt reduced to dust - Mary Jo Bang "It Says, I Did So"

Lying hymn-barren on the dirt - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"

While treading upon barren shores - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Beating barren twigs together - Arna Bontemps "Blight"

Barren purposeless change - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 3"

Give me back my barren hills - Anne Bronte "Home"

Leave but dead ashes and a barren crust - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Open Door"

Nothing remains upon this barren core - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]

A breed of witch who strolls barren fields - Meagan Chandler "Cornhusk Doll with Face"

Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"

An outcast on some barren spot - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XII"

Unallied to bitter things or barren - Edward Dowden "In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos"

Barren smiles are trained for tragedy - Donald Evans "The Noon of Night"

Maintains one barren blank from age to age - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Over the bleak and barren snow - Colin Francis "Tony O"

Left him hiking along the barren shores of physics - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

From each barren weed that grows expects the grape - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]

Barren of bliss and robbed of golden cheer - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

Between the poppies' barren fires - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Notre Dame de la Belle-Verriere"

Laughter from the barren crowd - Anastasius Grün "The 'Old Player'" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]

Losing sight of barren rewards - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Walked up and down my barren rows - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

To dash irradiant on the barren shore - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"

my Self in the unyielding barrenness - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

Barren architecture of creatures long past - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Fickle light on barren blossoms - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"

On barren solitudes of sand - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Barren as the Hopeless Flame - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

This flow of barren tears - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Across the barren moor - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"

Cultivates the rough and barren regions - George Martin "Superstition"

That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Mind's icy sneer of bitter barrenness - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Not only cosmic barrens and psychic emptiness through which we fare - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The barren fool in power - John Masefield "Forget"

Reducing land to barren sea - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Born of barren rocks - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Beacon Face"

Reared on reefs that hide their rending shocks - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Beacon Face"

While I tasted the sights of the barren country - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

A barren line from whence to where - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"

Barren thorns to plunge - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"

Through the wastes wild and barren - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Barren of every glorious theme - Anon. "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America"

To find some new sensation for a barren mind - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Barren-hearted and untrue - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

Barren apples beard the rocks - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Secret weeping over your barrenness - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz

Bare trees and barren ground - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

The sorrows of the barren year - George Santayana "Avila"

With barren husks and harvesting of dreams - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

All the world is barren, while I mourn - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]

Deserted on life's barren strand - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Reaping a barren grain - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

So barren of new pride - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"

Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

Seeing his fields lie barren in the sun - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Scared barren at your very notion - Patricia Smith "What Betsy Has to Say"

To barren rocks and fields that have no clay - James Stephens "The Gang"

Blown buds of barren flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"

Lay the gold tithings barren - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

No rills refresh the barren sand - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]


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